Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 13, 2009

Yes, a very good thing…

Uh-oh! Calvin pushed himself backward and hit his head on the floor. He asked for it! LOLs!

This is one way to get him to take a bath.

lol

That’s what you get for being very knotty.

Yukoner - that was very punny!

Like the Gods away in clouds, we watch the dreams and imaginings of children. Thence to drink the perfect wine of happiness.

O Little child, O mystery,

Let your laughter ever sooth my soul, my own dear memories then to happily relive.

Sticken into earth with head is not the best for thinking!

I can’t wait til Mom comes in there and sees him like this.

If mom comes in and sees him tied up she’ll have to believe that HObbes is real! How else would Calvin get tied up?

I can almost hear mom storming up the stairs.

Under water Hobbes ??? I would love to see this scene in the bathtub… glubb glubb.. Hobbes would have to bail him out.

Nothing up my sleeve….

Amazing how many perilous adventures Calvin undergoes while his dinner’s getting cold.

I tried told you guys Hobbes was real and everybody else was just blind and/or stupid.

hobbes is real. and he is the best.

could you just imagine moms face when she sees this? i cant Waite till tomorrow. so good. love it. hes going to feel that in the morning.

The fruit of imagination and role models!

It looks like Calvin is fit to be tied!

Part of Bill Watterson’s genius in this comic is his ability to balance Calvin’s world (with Hobbes as a living tiger) and the world we all live in, where Hobbes is stuffed and unable to move.

As I was writing this, I realized that’s not the complete story. Calvin has plenty of other worlds, such as Spaceman Spiff, or the sandbox. These worlds do not match up with the real world as well, although there are still certain correspondences (like Spaceman Spiff being captured and tortured when Calvin is in the classroom).

Still, in this case, Calvin’s parents won’t buy the argument that “Hobbes tied me up.” They will have to come up with another view. He he he.

Bill Watterson says Calvin looks at hobbes one way and the rest of the world a different way because none of us view the world the same way

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