Shel Silverstein riffed on this idea often in his poems and drawings. Here’s one:Each time I see the Upside-Down ManStanding in the water,I look at him and start to laugh,Although I shouldn’t orter.
For maybe in another world,Another time,Another town,Maybe HE is right side up,and I am upside-down.
BE THIS GUY about 6 years ago
I’m never staring into a puddle or pond again.
Sugar Bombs 95 about 6 years ago
Have you ever thought that the reason you can’t enter the mirror world is because your reflection is blocking the way?
The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover about 6 years ago
The one time his parents don’t get mad about him staying up late. Unlucky.
alaskajohn1 about 6 years ago
Frozen in time, until tomorrow’s strip.
codycab about 6 years ago
Funny but not as funny as when Peter Griffin tried to beat up his reflection in the reflecting pool at Washington D.C.. (anyone get the reference?)
lucky444 about 6 years ago
Listen Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and change that stupid expression Calvin.
Farside99 about 6 years ago
Wait! What happens if it gets dark and the moon goes away? Do I leave and cease to exist?
bluram about 6 years ago
A six year old in deep thought.
DaveG1960 about 6 years ago
How to confuse an idiot…
enigmamz about 6 years ago
Similar to: “What if this is all just some guy’s/gal’s dream and when he/she wakes up, we go POOF!?!?!?”
jpayne4040 about 6 years ago
Calvin’s expression of fear in the fourth panel is priceless!
Auntie Socialist about 6 years ago
Way to mess with Calvin’s mind. Well played
SuperAndy Premium Member about 6 years ago
A rare case of sympathy on Calvin’s part. Even if it is for an imaginary person in the reflection
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 6 years ago
Narcissus!
Nyckname about 6 years ago
He’ll dissappear soon’s the puddle evaporates.
jrankin1959 about 6 years ago
Thanks, Hobbes – you can just rock me to sleep tonight…
aerotica69 about 6 years ago
Phenomenology was invented when Edmund Husserl got stuck babysitting his six-year-old nephew.
Huckleberry Hiroshima about 6 years ago
Deep.
rshive about 6 years ago
Thinking too much can be a problem sometimes.
gantech about 6 years ago
And another neurotic is born….
johndifool about 6 years ago
But the reflection doesn’t have a goatee…
joherrer about 6 years ago
Something is wrong. Standing that way, Calvin cannot see his image on the water. He should be looking to US!
Pteranodon about 6 years ago
What if I am a figment of Bill Watterson’s imaginaton and he decides to retire?
MarkKahler about 6 years ago
When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glimpse…….
TurbosDad about 6 years ago
“Candy Man, Candy Man, Candy Man” Now I went and did it…
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
About the only time you will see a 6 year old with an existential crisis.
coffeeturtle about 6 years ago
Let’s pause for a moment of reflection.
InquireWithin about 6 years ago
“Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary”. Dang, it didn’t w— K-k-kk…
Janos about 6 years ago
Calvin is out again well past midnight.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member about 6 years ago
I call that a Hobbesism.
studmare18 about 6 years ago
One time I looked through the eyes of the reflection in the mirror at myself, and didn’t like what I saw.
GeoffCoe about 6 years ago
Shel Silverstein riffed on this idea often in his poems and drawings. Here’s one:Each time I see the Upside-Down ManStanding in the water,I look at him and start to laugh,Although I shouldn’t orter.
For maybe in another world,Another time,Another town,Maybe HE is right side up,and I am upside-down.