Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 06, 2023

That snowball has Apostolic succession from a snowball St. Peter hit St. Thomas.

And he wonders why he’s bad at snowball fights.

One of my “non-guffaw” C&H favorites

I hear the Pope himself does the same thing when he’s in a snowball fight…

If you intend to cross Susie by a baptism by snowball, be careful, she might dump you into the consecrated ground.

You are about to be pelted with dozens, if not hundreds of non-consecrated snowballs. Good luck making it in your front door.

Calvin hopes, consecrated snowballs will not miss their aim!

I love this one

This is the direct opposite of a Sunday strip in which Calvin successfully hit Susie with a snowball after several failed attempts. In the last panel, Calvin said to an out-of-panel Mom, “Bad news, Mom. I promised my soul to the Devil this afternoon.” Mom’s speech balloon coming from outside the panel said, “Oh! That recently?”

Calvin usually turns to God for help as was shown in last Monday’s strip among many others. On rare occasions, he is prepared to turn in the other direction.

If Calvin has a Rabbi bless them, his snowballs will be Kosher, too.

And if you miss, will they be desecrated?

Smacking Susie or killing demons?

Amen!

That looks like one nicely packed snowball!

I don’t remember this one, so until he indicates it is a prayer in the third panel, I thought Calvin was a budding, twisted, poet.

“One, two, five!’

“Three, Sir!”

Consecrate this you little punk!

The IceQueen heard his prayer!

Sort of like sacred ICBMs…

If he gets the sniffles while playing in the snow, his mom will give him a bowl of consecrated chicken soup

Catchy rhyme. Iambic variameter.

I thought he only prays before eating his mothers dinner…but now that the thought is there, why is it on one day he his grossing out Susie with what he is having for lunch and then a couple of nights later, his mother serves it for dinner? It MUST be a female conspiracy… do you think there may be OTHER CONSPIRACYS that MEN are oblivious to?……….This is the point in time for ALL WOMEN to STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!

By the time he’s done consecrating his snowball, the target will have gone home.

That snowball is kinda like the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Football-shaped snowballs throw straighter and truer than round ones, studies have shown

All poets are smiling with this one.

Then hit Susie, if you dare,

Now your head’s shaped like a pear…

There won’t be any snowballs where Calvin ends up.

H e I I

Calvin is a really good poet.

So there we have it — Calvin is destined to grow up and become a priest!

A priest of what religion is still open to question.

No holy stone core?

He put a lot of effort into that one.

Calvin is putting a spell on that snowball just for Susie… LOL

What would a snowball made from holy water do to a vampire?

A snowball is still better than cooking. If I make platters too pretty, I don’t want anyone touching them.

sure, Calvin

Melt and soak through underwear. Hilarious!

On Titan are there snowballs made of slushy frozen methane?

And you still always miss

R’amen!!!