Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 26, 2023

Either politician or gossip columnist.

That 2nd slide means he has a future in reality TV.

Calvin may have options but will any of them have Calvin?

Has this one had a Trump edit yet?

Shyster, politician, reporter, paparazzo, Twit (ter user)

Private lives are legit public property, until it is his private life that is.

He’s predicting his own failure!!

yeah, Calvin, this is a wrong path.

Calvin sounds like someone who would end up working on Wall Street in the ’80s by day, partying hard at night ala Charlie Sheen in the ’87 movie.

I’m with Hobbes…..

Was this guy the original slinger for Survivor and Big Brother?

I agree with Hobbes!! Calvin will probably end up as Editor-in-Chief of some supermarket rag! Or his mentor, Donald J. Trump!!

I never liked the misuse of “lowest common denominator”. “Greatest common factor” is more accurate, and far less condescending and elitist.

Calvin is all set for a life of notoriety and infamy, and all the money it attracts!

Internet troll

“Reality” TV comes to mind here…

Sounds like Calvin is destined to pay billions for then destroy a social media company.

Which other animals could Hobbes so “hang around”?

I am beginning to believe that Watterson saw the future and it is now.

And so, Calvin goes on to be Governor of Florida.

Yes Calvin, your options are to found the E! channel, or TLC, or Bravo, or . . . .

Maybe he’ll be a reality show hose. I mean host.

Either a politician, or a journalist.

So, basically “Greed is good.” I wonder where that will get him. Probably a yacht and an eventual trip to club fed.

Reality TV

The public and tigers will both eat people alive, but the tigers will at least have the common decency not to gloat about it.

Yep, social media influencer

You guys are all thinking too small. Try the leader of WEF or WHO.

The more things change… the more they stay the same.

Hard to imagine this was published 30 years (give or take) ago.

Reality show host or Pillow salesman.

Hmmm….. strong Liberal Democratic logic in Calvin. ‘The lowest common denominator is always right’. Sounds familiar.

Hobbes is always right…

Now all Calvin needs is a camera and a motor scooter to become a paparazzi .

So many have chosen that career path that it’s hard to make a living out of it, unless you hurt somebody

Huh, Calvin is a Gen Z. I thought he was older than that.

And to think social media didn’t exist when this comic was published!

OK- I’ll say it if no one else will: Calvin just described 21st century America.

MAGA is in his future

Calvin is STILL ahead of his time.

Lots of businesses are looking for exactly those qualities. Calvin would have been very successful, if he had grown up and got a job.

Perhaps being a PR hack for a politician is in Calvin’s future.

Or stock broker: “Greed is good.”

Trump: the Early Years

Hey, did Calvin invent Twitter???

He would just love current America.

Greed justifies everything? When did Calvin read Ayn Rand?

whether its true or not i don’t think its right to say that the right is the lowest common denominator

In other words, Calvin believes in capitalism!

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

other animals, Hobbes, such as…?

The lower common denominator term by Calvin, makes it clear that he has more to maths than what Mrs Wormwood can ever imagine before retirement.

Calvin has just figured out Social Media.