Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 25, 2011

Ms. Wormwood is in heaven.

…and Calvin has perfected his duplicator.

I’m starting to remember the storyline a little now, methinks the arrow’s going to take a turn to the right.

I don’t get my email notification for another 3 hours but I kept yesterday’s so I could get in a bit earlier tonight. This is really good and I don’t remember a thing from the original run so it’s all new to me. Where the heck is Dad in all this? So far it’s just been Mom and now Mrs. Wormwood. Poor Dad is missing out!

Ms. Wormwood is easily fooled.

Calvin has got everything planned except for meals.

So is writing ‘evil’ on the box as one of the arrow positions a fundamental design error, or just a potential user interface issue?

Wait til Susie meets the new Calvin.

@Yukoner Susie will probably be stumped.. ;)

Calvin, nice “good” Calvin you made, can I please have the blueprints of the Duplicator??

Where’s Austin Powers when we need him to fight this Good-Me that Dr. Evil Calvin has created?

Is Calvin imagining Good Calvin at school, or is Good Calvin imagining Calvin at home?

Calvin, it’s a little hard to think of installing an Ethicator when the designer has no ethics at all.

And here’s another reason why I like Good Calvin so much: his ability and eagerness to answer questions. That was (and remains) me all over. Here’s to ENFPs who apply themselves… :))

Boy is Mrs. Wormwood going to be disappointed when Calvin returns to normal.

Good morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

You’re up, Grog?

True, Mrs. Wormwood will look back on this short period as “the Arcadia of my middle age” and wonder just why it happened and why it ended.

Welcome back, Marg! I was getting a little oncerned. Hope all is well.

Twinsnake raised a good point. We see Calvin jumping from home to school and back again. Is he imagining his discussion with Hobbes back at the house or is he imagining his presence at school? Or is Watterson leaping us hours ahead to show what happened the next day in school? Or could it be that Calvin is actually in two places at the same time? Either way it is a beautiful exercise in comic humor never utilized by any other artist that I remember.

Finding his good side must’ve taken awhile :)

mrs. wormwood is in heaven

This is a great play out but things get really fun right about here. And David and Twinsnake, if I remember, that issue is never actually addressed so I guess the belief is that the “good” Calvin is the real one since he is interacting with everyone but I may be mistaken.

oh, the wonders of that cardboard box!

LOVE it! But we all know that with every mad scientist something must go terribly awry with the experiment.

Smell that! That is the smell of something about to go horribly wrong.

I looked this story arc up in one of my Calvin and Hobbes books. I couldn’t wait. Want me to tell you all what happens? Nah, I won’t ruin it for you all! :-D

Calvin is a very good actor. But not for long I’m afraid.

Calvin’s evil side will eventually come out, like Hyde, and take over Calvin’s personna. The evil Calvin will be too strong to resist!

Mrs. Wormwood, don’t wake up. Enjoy it while you can.

Ah, the Duplicator with the optikonal ethiocator. Works for me!

This arc is a great example of why Watterson’s a comic genius and why me and the rest of the world miss this strip and are so grateful for these re-runs.

What a terrible dream!

“Wait ‘til Susie meets the new Calvin.” If Susie meets the new Calvin and he cuts her down, she’ll be ‘stumped’.

Welcome back marg!

What is mom going to say when she doesn’t see the good Calvin hanging out with Hobbes?

This shows what we already know. If Calvin applies himself he could do well at school.

Careful of the consequences, Calvin. It will backfire…

This strip of Calvin the good one versus evil reminds me a TV show on ages ago back in 90’s called Family Matters. Now adult back then teen placed Steve Urkel. Has a personality machine and duplicate himself to a suave guy to win his love of Laura.

“Or could it be that Calvin is actually in two places at the same time?”

That would make Calvin a mass of virtual particles whose wavefunction hasn’t collapsed yet, which would explain a lot actually. Schrodinger’s Tiger?

I’ve got a baaaad feeling about this.

I figured the cardboard box would enter into this somehow. I can’t wait to see what chaos comes next!

The issue of what’s real and what isn’t is never really resolved in Calvin and Hobbes. If you want Bill Watterson’s perspective on it, take a look in the tenth anniversary book- there’s an interesting section about Hobbes’ reality that can be extended to Calvin’s other fantasies.

I don’t wait for my email notification to get the comics. The site is on my “favorites” with an icon on the screen. It is almost the first thing I go to when I power up the computer.

JohnDiFool: the very act of observing would have collapsed the wave function immediately. Maybe the duplicator works similar to the transporter on Star Trek. Remember the episode “The Enemy Within” where Captain Kirk gets split into two beings one evil and one good.

This storyline reminds me of the day I was good once.

Chuck Robideaux and Cleo: Thanks, just a little vacation to a warmer clime. :-)

Calvin has a good side?!? I thought he was all mischief and living in his own little “it’s all about me!!!” universe! (Which doesn’t necessarily make him a completely bad kid … just thoughtless and selfish most of the time.)

this duplicated calvin has to be multiplied by 1000 times the good calvin to be in normal size…

jajaja que fumado esta este cuate watterson…

As long as the one others can see behaves himself, we can be functional.

Ah, the wonders of an old cardboard box, and the many hours of fun as a kid. What kid (or former kid) out there has never played with one and had many adventures.

The best ones were from large appliance deliveries with double thick walls.

It looks like Calvin may be cut out for a career in upper management!

How long Mrs. Wormwood will say “dear” to Calvin!

Hobbes likes Calvin as his friend, as long he is not too bad!!

Regardless of the position of the prognosticator indicator, if Calvin’s box experiences an unexpected power surge, what comes out of it will resemble something out of Jim Carrey’s “The Mask”. His mother may need hospitalization….

Hey that looks like my friend. a total dweeb

Nah, Susie won’t like this one. Girls like us to have a bit of badness :-p

Do not give me this bleeep . Suzie dont like the duplicator Mom will not like the duplicator. Mrs Wormwood will miss Calvin. Dad will have a fit if he thinks hes lost his only Calvin. And I do not like that piece of pasta .its Calvin I want

WytZox1, that’s a joke, right? Please say that’s a joke.

This doesn’t last forever. As many of us know! Enjoy it while you can, Calvin! LOL

My all-time favorite comic strip.

wait is this comic strip suppose to be in reality with Hobbes just a figment of Calvins imagination? There seems to be contradictions here

yay calvin