Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 27, 2020

I hope Calvin has had his Dad patent all these inventions.

Maybe if Calvin has Hobbes go to school for him, he’ll get better grades.

Interesting how in this strip, Hobbes’s whispers were drawn as a bunch of little scribbles, but in a later strip, they were literally written as “spah spah spah spah”.

the duplicates are going underground

Duplicate dinosaurs or duplicate Hobbes’s.

I wonder what he’s going to change them into.

The duplicates sure are gullible.

Prepare to be transmorgified! I don’t think it will hurt!

So he’s schizophrenic AND he has multiple personality disorder. That’s supposed to be funny?

Excellent spelling ability for a 6-year old!

I was expecting he would add a reverse switch on the duplicator, but then the story would be over.

Of course, Hobbes is able to outsmart a bunch of Calvins!

At one point, at work, I found the portion of the original riot act which was supposed to be read to crowds to tell them to disperse. I tried reading it out loud on one occasion, but I was the only one who was amused.

Whatever you turn them into… just don’t feed them after midnight.

Numbers Two, Three, Four, Five and Six, your time is up.

Last week, I noted that the duplicates only spoke to Calvin and not to Hobbes. I suggested that they may perceive him as a stuffed doll. However, today’s strip shows that they can hear Hobbes although they haven’t acknowledged him before.

Maybe he can turn them into little bobblehead dolls of himself.

Hobbes is always best! Greatest help in deepest distress!!

He’s gonna turn them into cockroaches. Sorta like Kafka, you know? Except his was a REALLY BIG cockroach. Sorta like we have here in Florida.

Hobbes, the logical thinker.

Is Calvin about to commit multiple suicides? (Don’t answer that for real. Spoilers.)

Calvin hears a stuffed tiger give sage advise (schizophrenic) and he has five clones (same personality though). This is a comic strip penned and drawn by an absolute genius. And It is funny, amusing, sad and hilarious.

I meant advice people. Sigh.

Goodbye.

All you have to do to alter the controls is use a Sharpie? Too bad George Wells didn’t know about that trick…

Technology is amazing!

Uh oh…