Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

Planet Calvin may be in for a thermonuclear explosion…
vibjyor said, about 1 month ago

That would get you A+ when you get to school Calvin, if you can remember it till then !
LX013 said, about 1 month ago

Calvin the solar eclipse!
kpeiyin said, about 1 month ago

Jump on mom, Calvin!!!
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago

Thats a friendly looking planet to do something mean like that.
spritbreaker said, about 1 month ago

Tht’s the meanest planet, patching up with the destructive part of nature all time..keep it on some has to do it and we love seeing u do it.
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

Don’t touch the lamp to long Calvin or your planet may incinerate into nothing but ashes.
Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

Calvin, move or you might find yourself in a different orbit.
Johanan Rakkav said, about 1 month ago

With Calvin the Planet that close to Earth, I’d be more worried about the tidal effects. :)
spritbreaker said, about 1 month ago

how come when calvin morphs himself into something…hobbes is not in sight ne whr.
watcha said, about 1 month ago

So there is a black hole between earth and the sun.
Andy said, about 1 month ago

Now I understand what “mother earth” means :o)
Al said, about 1 month ago

Hmmm, Calvin stays between the Sun and Mom….Looks the the Sun will cause a very hot backside on the planet soon. See…simple physics.
RussellNash said, about 1 month ago

Simple physics is that a planet can’t keep another planet in eclipse. It must move faster than a planet further away from the sun in order to maintain its orbit. Calvin either needs to get out of mom’s light or he’s going to plummet into the lamp.
green_engineer said, about 1 month ago

mroberts88 - it’s probably the sudden exposure to the Sun’s heat which altered that once ‘friendly looking’ planet.
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

The physics aspect of the analogy can be carried too far, even by the author. It’s not a ‘total solar eclipse’; it’s Planet Calvin’s shadow. I suppose we can call it some form of poetic license.
Anyway, sit up straight, Mom! Calvin might give you a hug around the back of the neck. NOT! More likely, it would be a choke hold!
Richard said, about 1 month ago

The Fiend!
hagarthehorrible said, about 1 month ago

planet earth is in for a hug filled with love
RavennaAl said, about 1 month ago

Calvin, enjoy being a planet while you’re young, for when you grow older you’ll probably develope a bad case of asteroids….
LX013 said, about 1 month ago

Margueritem:
Your sad picture makes me think of best friend of mine, who died last year and who must look now in this way. In my thought he is alive, I speak with him, as he would be alive and this picture makes me so very sorry! In my thoughts he is not dead, and this picture puts death before my eyes and makes it real, so very final!!
dinosaur123 said, about 1 month ago

The addition of another planet into that small a solar system will cause tidal changes on the “Mom” planet and she will explode from the stress.

As Calvin is about to discover.
rac0308 said, about 1 month ago

After the supermarket t-rex, I bet mom is on a REALLY short fuse.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

Anything to irritate the parents. lol
prasrinivara said, about 1 month ago

He’s not touching the lamp ladywolf17.

RussellNash, “simple physics” does not apply in cartoons.
jmiskell12 said, about 1 month ago

He needs his mom. Everything but the twinkies.
rshive said, about 1 month ago

The longer the eclipse lasts, the faster bedtime will come.
jmiskell12 said, about 1 month ago

I said: He needs his mom. Everything but the twinkies.
Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

I’d suggest that Calvin get a book of his own to read but he doesn’t need one. He makes up his own stories so well.
Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

Talking about great expectations! From T-Rex to planet! What’s next, Calvin?
Johanan Rakkav said, about 1 month ago

Well, at some early point Calvin was a god - one of the old kind (as he put it) that threw humans into fiendish torments for the sheer whimsy of it. His parents were watching him play and noted that he was creating his own worlds. Indeed.

Calvin the Pagan God? Kinda hard to top that, unless it’s by the amusing spectacle of Calvin creating his Good Twin using a variation of his Transmogrifier.
BC13 said, about 1 month ago

I think Planet Calvin needs a couple photon torpedos accross the stern
lobkiller said, about 1 month ago

Looks like things are about to ‘flare up’, hehe

Shouldn’t Cal be reclassified as a ‘dwarf planet’, like Pluto?

@rave haha good one. asteroids!
jrbj said, about 1 month ago

Planet Calvin is about to find out that Mom is a solar flair that is going to reach waaaay out and incinerate Planet Calvin (and of course there will be the obligatory magnetic storm accompanying that).
ALMlovesCalvin said, about 1 month ago

This makes me so sad, how can Calvin breathe out there? He should be careful. It reminds me of when I was “shrouded in darkness” a few years ago, and my friend Laura showed me the light.

Calvin’s mum is so lazy, shouldn’t she be washing or cleaning?
Lazz4Hobbes4EVA said, about 1 month ago

Calvin you phosphorous brain! Don’t you know you could zorb into intergalactica with that kind of planet talk? ALMlovesCalvin I think you’re a misogynist
ALMlovesCalvin said, about 1 month ago

Lazz4Hobbes4EVA, i think Calvin’s planet is in conjunction with mars so he will be safe, don’t worry. Unless an asteroid heads for the earth’s atmosphere, in which case he is screwed.
Josh said, about 1 month ago

Planet Calvin better move soon, or he’ll encounter the Black Hole of Mom.
Vonnegut said, about 1 month ago

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson
kab2rb said, about 1 month ago

To get different icons you download somewhere on the internet. I thought about one for mine without giving me away.
I think Marguer is in halloween icon.
I try to have imnigination but mine is not like Calvin’s thankfully. Mom you need to keep your son busy.
Comic-Nut said, about 1 month ago

Calvin must be putting himself into an elliptical solar orbit to stay stable between the sun and the earth. But I agree with an earlier note that I would be more concerned about tidal effects than a blackout.
tj_budzman said, about 1 month ago

hahahahahahaha kid with a huge ego and imagination
grazer said, about 1 month ago

Someone’s about to get his little asteroid paddled.
tonytiger29 said, about 1 month ago

Calvin had better watch out planet mom doesn’t launch something at him to see if it kicks up signs of water.

All parents want their kids to be creative and have a great imagination… until that imagination is used on them.
bald 716 said, about 1 month ago

this is more believable that the story line in the movie MOON starring sam rockwell
marvee said, about 1 month ago

Moms can’t clean and cook all the time. It’s hard to find any time for yourself, especially with a kid like Calvin.
However, I think maybe bookworms don’t make good parents. Ask my kids.
LX013 said, about 1 month ago

Bookworms are certainly not good perents!
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago

green engineer, that may be it. I think that planet is going to get hot soon, considering the sun is right there.
Ronshua said, about 1 month ago

“Move please” first then , move please or , then it’s a hot time on the young eclipsing full moon , let there be light .
ratlum said, about 1 month ago

Thats got to be fun
MisngNOLA said, about 1 month ago

Russell’s “simple physics” fails to take into account that the intervening planet may be less dense than the eclipsed planet. If less dense, the inertia required to keep it in orbit would also be correspondingly less, so the speed of its orbit could be such that it matched the eclipsed planet’s orbit. This explanation has been sponspored by Joe Allen Doty, and the letters N A S and A.