Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 13, 2022

The sarcastic are never forgiven.

Your everything needs work, Calvin.

She should have thrown him under the bus!!!

Maybe if he gave Susie a towel to dry herself off immediately after throwing the balloon, it would have worked a little better.

Looks a lot like Trump and the FBI.

This is basically the way Christianity claims to operate. No matter how much evil you do in the world, all is forgiven if you repent on your deathbed. It’s like the “Get Out of Jail Free” card in Monopoly. (Don’t try it in a court of law, tho.)

Don’t you hate apologies written by the person’s lawyer or PR person.

So much for religious tropes

It was not me, but the sin that lives in me.

I just let the sin do what it wanted to do.

Oh, I guess it was me after all.

How true, how true! It’s good there is someone who loved people so much, that he forgives many things, even the evil ones!

Desperately needs acting lessons……

Forget about working on your penitent sinner schtick. Work on your speedy escape instead. And get a lawyer.

You’re too obviously having fun “repenting”, Calvin.

Suzie knows you’ll NEVER be truely sorry, Calvin! ;D

Bad acting.

He didn’t realize that remorse could be so painful.

She beat him with his schtick.

what you need to improve is the get away

Today’s strip reminds me of a Peanuts Sunday strip with Linus and Lucy.

Lucy was about to walk past Linus who had a snowball in his hand. “If you throw that snowball at me, you’ll be sorry.” She then went on working and was hit in the back of her head with the snowball. “WHOMP!” She walked back to face Linus. “You were right! I am sorry! I hit you with a snowball! My own sister! I am sorry!” Lucy punched Linus out of the next panel. “POW!” The last panel showed Linus lying on his back with swirl marks around his head. “How sorry can you get?”

About a month ago, there was another strip of Calvin soaking Susie with a water balloon and seeing stars afterwards. I compared it to an “Oor Wullie” comic strip from the Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post which is popular here in the UK. In that strip, there was a big fight cloud with English and Scottish sound effects “BLOOTER!”, “CRUNCH!”, “THUMP!”, “SKUD!”, “BATTER!”, “BANJO” and plenty of stars. Today, I’m going to describe another “Oor Wullie” strip with plenty of stars. As I’ve said before, Wullie is a little older than Calvin and has blond spiky hair like Calvin’s

It begins harmlessly with Wullie picking up a newspaper and saying he is going to read his stars. In the next panel, his “sometime girlfriend” Primrose – who is dressed as a fortune teller and playing with a crystal ball – says she will tell him his fortune for a pound. Wullie tells her to “Clear aff!” but another girl says, “Here’s a pound, Primrose. Tell me my fortune.”Wullie exclaims “Telling fortunes…making a fortune mair like!” In the next panel, he tips his goldfish out of his bowl and into a large tumbler. “Sorry Goldie, only temporary you understand.” In the following panel, he is using the upturned goldfish bowl as a crystal ball and offering to tell fortunes for 50p. Primrose says angrily, “Setting up on my pitch and undercutting my prices!” In the next panel, she raises her crystal ball to throw into Wullie’s face. “I see your future, boy, and it’s not rosy! You’re aboot to have an awfy accident!” The next panel shows the crystal ball coming towards us and the word “CRASH!” and plenty of stars. The following panel shows that Primrose has calmed down and cheered up. Her smiling face tells us “Wullie disna have to read his stars now…” In the last panel, she tells us “He’s seeing plenty of his own! Ha! Ha!” In the background, we see Wullie with head swirls and stars around his head. “Ach! I aye knew she was a head banger!”

I think that Susie should get a restraining order against Calvin—not that he would obey it!!

If that be an Act of Contrition, it won’t pass in a Catholic confession.

A bully (or a Russian) would blame the person who was soaking wet for the predicament they found themselves in.

Provoked them by not getting out of the way fast enough etc., being saturated being also an ‘outrageous provocation’.

And then you wonder why Hobbes hung you out for the hornets yesterday, Calvin?

The problem is ‘Calvin’: ‘Susie’ know you too well but yet, you think that every time is new but she still remembers the ‘last’ time and knows you too well for you to be apologetic ! ! ! !

He should have run.

Sometimes, “I’m sorry.” is all we have or all we get. Most times, it’s not enough.

Real penitence would help, Calvin.

Calvin learns it’s not always easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Especially with Susie

Sche schtuck hisch schtick…

Politically relevant recent events.

My mind went immediately to ‘a penitent man’, from ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’. I may have to find time to watch a movie this weekend.

I really love Susie.

Lots of work !!!! ha ha

Watterson said he based Susie on his wife

Things turned Inside Out as Sonic the Hedgehog ran into Anger.

Try apologizing first. It doesn’t work any better but it does sound more like government. :) :(

Ya know Cal, even though you’re a minor,,,that’s still assault and battery. Enjoy juvie!

I’d love to see Calvin and Clem Doolittle team up for a water balloon fight.

I see a bright cute for Calvin as a Shakespearean actor

Calvin needs to moderate his ‘sins’ to obtain forgiveness from Sally. She will help him to avoid being a bully later in life.

Calvinists believe their salvation is predestined regardless of their sins!

I have Covid… :(

It didn’t work for Jim Baker. So why would it work for little old Calvin?

Brother Faith: “When I was your age, I was a hellraiser, too. My slingshot was my cross. But I saw the light, and changed my wicked ways.”

Bart: “I think I’ll go for the life of sin, followed by a presto-change-o deathbed repentance.”

Brother Faith: "Wow, that’s a good angle.

In my experience, girls are not that into forgiveness.

As Susie is trying to teach you, true redemption is earned through suffering.

Good boy, Calvin!

Calvin did that on purpose to make a mockery of Catholocism. (Your behavior needs a ton of work!)

Wasn’t this initially about a water balloon?Did anyone who managed to “wade” through all these comments change your mind about the effects of the water balloon on Christianity today? Spare me the self-righteous indignation over freedom of speech and religion and just answer the question to yourself.Another 50+ comments are not necessary.I should have known better than to go beyond the strip.

Bill never falls to challenge our vocabulary in rhe process of entertaining millions across the globe. Wonder why he stopped this brilliant strip too soon.

Keep working on your 12-step program Calvin.