Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 06, 2011

Looks like a heap o’ truble boy!

Never give an evil snowman ideas …

The evil snowman is fat, because he’s “packing” on weight.

Could the Michelin Man actually be a abominable snowman? These are life’s important questions.

If only he tries to get bigger rolling down the toboggin hillo.

The Evil Snowman is eating too many Marshmellows!!!!!!!!!!!

Judging from where the first snow ball struck and where the new snow seems to be going - will he become a she?

We’ll have to keep abreast of the developments.

Yup, I now agree melting is the only way to get rid of him!

a little salt in his path might slow him down!

I fear, there come many troubles! Melt him!!

Water balloons filled with extra salty hot water

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

Isn’t this the one where Calvin’s parents come home to a flooded house and he tries to explain he lured the evil snowman in to kill him?

Love the eyes in panel #3.

throwing snowballs at a snow goon is like throwing gas on a fire …

Been gone for a long time. Does Calvin still have a transformogulator (spelling?) ?

Where is global warming when you need it?

I believe you mean transmogrifyer, Lewreader. But it probably wouldn’t be funny if he used it to get out of the situation.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

Imagination is a wonderful thing. I’m not sure that the toys of today (everything must work like the real thing) encourage the imagination and that is sad. When we picked up the toy phone we had to make up the conversation.

Cue “Batman” narrator voice:

“But WAIT! The WORST is yet to COME!”

(and in this case, it’s true!)

This is one of my favorite C&H storylines, and I envy those of you who are reading it for the first time.

The snowman theme is by far my favorite in Calvin and Hobbes. What imagination! And the drawings are incredible. I agree that today´s kids are missing out on so much with their toys. Our imaginations were the key component in making them work. Today´stoys state “batteries not included” while ours said ” imagination not included” because imagination is what fueled them. By the way, speaking of toys… down here in Mexico it is the day of the “Reyes Magos” (the 3 kings)and all the kids get their toys today more than on the 25th, so happy Epiphany to all! Ho, ho!

Surely mom has a blow torch somewhere in the kitchen for when she makes creme brulee. Chances are it hasn’t ever been used. I would say NOW is the time to turn the bad boy on. Feel the heat now Snow Boy?

Oh No!! This is getting scary!

This is the earliest I’ve ever posted. And Cleo, Calvin with a blowtorch?Saints preserve us!

He’s packing them onto his midsection. That must mean he’s the ABDOMINAL SNOWMAN!

Happy Feast of the 3 Kings, Poindexter!

Usually Hobbes is full of wisdom and ideas that save Calvin from trouble (if and when Calvin listens to him).. however, this time around Hobbes idea proved evil fr them :p

Bad bad bad, algurka.

what disturbs me about Calvin, in a cartoony sort of way, is that he’s such a solitary kid. His only friend (that I’ve seen) is Hobbes, and he’s imaginary—real only to Calvin. The only real kid in the strip is Suzy, an adversary.

Oh the days of unhindered imagination! Oh how I miss them! Wait, no I don’t I still use them on a regular basis! The life of a writer! :)

I just came home from ten days with three teenagers. It is impossible to play anything anymore because only one hand is available for work or play-the other is wrapped around a telephone. You begin to be paranoid. Text: Gramma is a real drag, keeps talking about when we were babies.

Where is that snow cannon when Calvin needs one? He should build it to blow a hole through the evil snowman, just as he has done in other snowman adventures.

I think I remember how this story line goes…things will get worse before they get better. LOL! LUV IT!

OK Susie, let’s call a truce……………..

This snowperson is to smart to be a guy………………..

Thanks, JohnDiFool. It’s probably one of my best!

Sky1946: Calvin reminds me of me when I was young. Maybe that’s why so many of us like him.

If his brain stays small you can out smart him maybe ?Calvins real brave to go out side with only Hobbes as backup,Hobbes can be unpredictable as we have seen before.

Where’s a flying house when you need one.

I encourage my granddaughter’s imagination like I did with my son’s by not buying toys with batteries. The first gaming system my son had was when he was working his first job at the age of 16 and I still only let him play it for a hour a day. Parents still seem to be afraid to set limits with their kids. My son has a great imagination because of it. He always had a piece of paper and a pen in hand now as well as in school. He still writes alot of stories and poetry with his own illustrations like he did in school. He’s done alot of design and writing work in his jobs as well as in the schools. He’s still working on his Art degree between parenting and working full-time. You have to encourage your kids to think for themselves or they’ll let someone else do it for them!

Quick Calvin! Lure him close to your house and grab a blow dryer and a loooooooong extension cord!!

I questioned calling it snow man from the beginning because you can see Suzie doing something like this,but then I changed my mined because she cant see Hobbes.

Speaking of imagination. Our boys, after hugging Grandma and Grandpa when we visited two or three times a year (we lived several hundred miles away), would go and immediately drag out an old cardboard box full of junk. Thread spools, string, old purses, various and sundry blocks of wood, plastic utensils, rubber bands, shoe boxes, and things I don’t even remember, but junk non the less. Now middle aged, they still fondly remember Grandma’s cardboard toy box.

They also quickly learned they had to put them away when through playing!!!!!

How did the snowman get off the front step? Even Mom saw him there. Guess I don’t have enough imagination.

Snowmen rent a blowtorch from Weight Watchers when they want to slim down a bit. Calvin still learning about the law of unintended consequences here, it seems…

I was a “horse” (prance about and run and whinney) many hours in my childhood until I was about 12. Dogs were my adventuresome playmates in the countryside where I grew up with no other children close by.

Can you say flamethrower ?

cleokaya: Yikes! If you had a 6-year-old like Calvin running around, would you keep a blowtorch of any kind in the house?!? I know I wouldn’t! I’d be afraid their streak of mischief or curiosity would have me burning to death in my bed some night!

Calvin … OH NO!!! is exactly right!

Ha. Oop-sie …

Ol’ Feisty’s got a real set of snowballs now …

What an imagination Calvin has! I fondly remember the good times whenever anyone in the neighborhood got a new appliance (especially a fridge). There’s no limit to what a cardboard box can become… in the mind of a child with an imagination.

burn him up!