Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 15, 2013

Dear Old Dad takes it in stride almost as well as Lio’s dad. Of course, in Lio’s case those would not be snowmen heads on the stakes.

While visiting Hong Kong and the Philippines I discovered that at least one Hong Kong newspaper and two Manila newspapers carry Calvin and Hobbes (in English). So, I did not miss any episodes while I was travelling, but, lacking computer access, I missed the many wonderful comments from you fellow fans out there.

Reminds me of apple on a stick.

You can hear the sigh when Dad says “yeah, that’s my kid.”

Sad snow men,sad dad.

or, gotta to send that kid to a therapist

Dad dun like….

In some ways, Calvin’s snowmen may have been Bill Watterson’s best work.

Why are the heads on a stick? Scalps and cutted off heads, Indians??

It reminds me of me at that age!

LX013: Putting heads on pikes is an old European tradition.

Dad always looks so sad since the paternity test came back positive.

I LOVED ‘Married…with Children’: it was SO cheesey and really well done.

Calvin will be making a guest appearance on next season’s Game of Thrones

His Dad just got home from the fifties.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

Anyway, he looks like the priest in the exorcist ready to start his work.

They let Calvin watch “Game of Thrones?”

It is hard to get a snowman to stay on a crucifix.

That should scare away the next blizzard.

Think Spartacus.

Or as Ted Bundy said, head sweet head.

Reminiscent of Sir Walter Raleigh’s attempts to adapt the Irish to the Plantation system. But he took it West and kept trying, discovered the virtues of imported labor and it worked real well for some for a while.

Methinks Calvin might be in trouble with Mom and left a note for Dad to rescue him from torture.

Calvin: the poster boy for birth control!

;-)

B/t/w: Any C&H strips with Calvin’s wonderfully imaginative snowmen in them are always my FAVORITE strips to read!!!!!

:-)

It’s about dang time they started running the Snowmen strips. Watterson’s brillant mind really came up with some classic stuff in the wintertime.

He tolerates this well.

Hey, as long as the can get the car in and out of the garage, it’s all good.

Whistle while you (come home from) work!

Calvin’s pathology might challenge any school therapist – is that why the last one quit?

That kid lives next door to me!

Oh, the stuff dad has to deal with.

only Calvin could come up with that…

What about Bill W ? Does he not own a black ink pen?

Calvin was inspired by Lord of the Flies.

Decapitated Snow Goons?

Oh—the humanity!

(Or something like that.)

No Calvin or Hobbes in this strip.

That’s what you get when you let your kids watch “Game of Thrones”