Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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margueritem said, 4 months ago

You cannot fool Susie Derkins.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, 4 months ago

Now, do you know what it is, Calvin? LOL
vibjyor said, 4 months ago

Susie also believes action speaks louder than words.
Johanan Rakkav said, 4 months ago

Hi, Marg!

C’mon, Calvin, drop the screwballitude and surrender already. You know you love her. :)
vinaybhatta said, 4 months ago

Now I wonder what gave Calvin away to Susie?????!!!!!!!! LOL
sjoujke said, 4 months ago

Geez - I wonder if it was the outfit.
EarlWash said, 4 months ago

Susie is just starting to get warmed up for when grows up…way ahead of you.
onthebrink said, 4 months ago

Earl , they’re always way ahead of us …. ’ working late my bleeep ! ’ ring any bells ?
Yukoner said, 4 months ago

Calvin needs to either improve his aim or his fibbing. Right now neither one is working for him.
BinaryWiener said, 4 months ago

Women have always been “perceptive” … any kid (or wayward spouse!) who’s tried to get away with something can attest to that!
Macushlalondra said, 4 months ago

Get him Susie!
Leonardeuler said, 4 months ago

This teaches you a lesson for many years to come Calvin:
you’ll always be the looser when challenging girls !! Never forget that.
RobinaFox said, 4 months ago

For “for a girl” always read “I hate to admit it, but…”
Herocoder said, 4 months ago

surprising how it happens everytime eh Calvin?
Ronshua said, 4 months ago

There , that’s for you and the tiger you rode in on .
Avolunteer said, 4 months ago

At that age girls are much smarter than boys! One of the reason the two genders don’t usually get along well at that point in their lives. Give him about 6 years…..:)
jrbj said, 4 months ago

There are times when you should never “play dumb”. Dealing with women are one of those times. They already know men are dumb. Calvin just proved it.
prasrinivara said, 4 months ago

Probably just the bow sjoujke (and vinaybhatta)–since arrows usually need to be impelled FROM one.

(so, even if he’d dressed as “English soldier at Agincourt”, he would have been busted due to the bow)
Lewreader said, 4 months ago

But. But. But. I don’t know. Never works for me but I keep trying it.
horizon1129 said, 4 months ago

after long time susie is back. now it will be fun for a while.
NoBrandName said, 4 months ago

Apparently it’s a boomerang.
threlfallm said, 4 months ago

prasrinivara …unless he was missing his bow-fingers–obscure reference to Agincourt and the begining of the British two-fingered hand sign.
Fer Lefer said, 4 months ago

Uh: “Hobbes made me do it?”
algurka said, 4 months ago

He’s lucky she only stuck it on his nose.
BC13 said, 4 months ago

Apparently Calvin didn’t learn a thing from the plumbing episode. He a lousy liar. But if he told the truth, would anyone believe him?
Johanan Rakkav said, 4 months ago

Girls much smarter than boys at that age? Even were that true (and I don’t buy it), I must’ve been an exception to a lot of rules. I always liked most girls better than most boys (though my very closest friends were boys), never passed through a stage where I didn’t like girls (though I do recall a certain male-superiority complex, mercifully brief, about age 13), and yielded mental superiority to no one of either sex (even adults). I think I saw, respected and learned from wisdom, most of the time.

Now, so much later, I understand why. For one thing, I was like Calvin’s transmogrified good twin (though far from without his brand of mischief or incompetence): a Jungian ENFP in development who started off having more in common than most males do with most females. For another, I had a mother who had hard dealings with the male gender and who overcompensated enough so that I had to look past preconceived notions of male or female superiority. And later, I had the best religious teachers one could possibly ask for.

I call into question the whole sterotypical idea that females are “smarter” than males (or vice versa). For one thing, there are more geniuses and more morons among males. For another, there are overall differences in kinds of intelligence and how they’re arrayed. It also takes most males longer to mature emotionally. Calvin isn’t dumb compared to Susie - he’s just more self-centered.

Can you tell that one of my hot buttons has been pressed? :)
RavennaAl said, 4 months ago

Looks like Calvin speaks with forked tongue.
shakeswilly said, 4 months ago

It’s not time yet to take a squaw Calvin…..
dzrt said, 4 months ago

LMAO
Avon said, 4 months ago

Hey, BC13 (about eight posts before mine here) -
How could Calvin learn from the plumbing fiasco in time for today’s strip? It looks like today’s art is drawn about 20 years before the plumbing episode.

Calvin is an old, old man. He’s been in reruns for ages. Can it be that, as of October 1, we are witnessing the cusp at which the final “new” strips have been published and we return once again to the earliest? A milestone relic, even?

This feels like going back to the 1950s Peanuts strips (such as one in which Patty very understandably mistakes Charlie Brown for a beachball while he’s swimming). Susie is wearing the overalls of a 2-year-old, right before most girls get hooked on Twirly Dresses 24/7. (I don’t think she kept wearing overalls forever, did she?) Anyway, it’s an old strip.
Trisha Evenstar said, 4 months ago

aww how sweet
bald 716 said, 4 months ago

at least susie didn’t put the arrow someplace else where it might not be seen
grazer said, 4 months ago

Ok, she might not be smarter than him, but she definately has better aim.
BC13 said, 4 months ago

Aven
Yesterday’s strip is dated 8/17 while today’s is dated 8/18 (bottom left hand corner of the 4th panel). FYI, C&H only ran for 10 years.
JanCinVV said, 4 months ago

Rakkav: You are essentially correct. 6 year old girls aren’t necessarily smarter than boys, but they are more mature. Susie’s ability to see through Calvin stems from her relative maturity, the same reason as the rest of us. Watterson was (is?) a genius, and Calvin’s pretty smart, too - look at his vocabulary at times!
Al said, 4 months ago

to Leonardeuler:

Women are always right. I have found that even if I’m right, I’m still wrong. A lose-lose situation at all times.
Leonardeuler said, 4 months ago

Hey horizon1129, it’s a little early for a snowball fight, isn’t it ? Winter didn’t come yet……..
EarlWash said, 4 months ago

@Rakkav

One of your buttons got pressed? I would have never noticed.
brewwitch said, 4 months ago

Rakkav said

You know you love her. :)

Calvin in 2009: married to Susie, with a 9 year old son, Calvin Jr., who makes his dad look like an amateur trouble maker..

….meanwhile, Calvin Jr’s grandfather is finally content in the way things are coming around on his son. Karma may take its time but it will show up.
ratlum said, 4 months ago

All girls are the same
Puddleglum2 said, 4 months ago

(That’s a) nice anticipatory sidestep, Susie!
raven090303 said, 4 months ago

Ya gotta figure Susie knew who did it pretty much right away! lol lol !
BC13 said, 4 months ago

Of course, she does. She’s not stupid. After all, Calvin still has the bow in his hand. And he’s got the nerve to deny it, with bow in hand.
softshell09 said, 4 months ago

if all girls are the same , why do the boys think we come in different flavors? blondes , brunets , redheads
Puddleglum2 said, 4 months ago

Rakkav said,
“C’mon, Calvin…You know you love her. :)”
Calvin is Susie’s beau (bow), now. Cupid’s arrow has hit Calvin ‘right on the nose’, although not through the heart.

“For all have sinned, and come short (miss the mark) of the glory of God.”
Romans 3:23
DD FENCE EMET said, 4 months ago

@ Puddleglum2:

It’s those that stop sinning after genuine repentance that get closest to the mark though.

Shall we then go on sinning?

Nope.

I couldn’t resist that one……. or maybe he missed intentionally to get a shot at the old saying ‘Missed me, missed me, now you gotta kiss me.’

I doubt that would be Susie’s next line though.
BC13 said, 4 months ago

EMET

You are on a roll.

A
Willcar1 said, 4 months ago

If a man says something and there’s no one there to hear him, is he still wrong?
alexhuama said, 4 months ago

jeje simple y sencillo pero genial
benbrilling said, 4 months ago

If this were a real arrow instead of a suction cup arrow Calvin would be in the Guinness Book as the person with the most holes in his/her nose. (Not counting piercings.)