Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 24, 2020

Actually, it’s a pandemic.

Not really your day today, is it Calvin?

Yeah, you could call it an epidemic.

yay !

Today’s strip is apt for the current days. Take a bath and kill the Corona epidemic today, Calvin

Don’t forget to wash ’em hands and paws for Hobbes.

There are worse things than epidemics.

Rosalyn.

Calvin hasn’t yet fully internalized the dictum that bad things come in groups. He will, though.

It’s called Caltapultis Buttulism.

Cruel and unusual punishment. For Rosalyn that is.

That girl is a glutton for punishment.

Next panel shows Calvin climbing out of the tub after singing “Happy Birthday” twice. BTW, Hobbes is taking no chances. He’s already restuffed himself with a buttload (pun intended) of 2 ply toilet paper.

Welcome back Rosalyn.

Yessssssss!!!

Aaahhh, Rosalyn. Calvin’s true arch-nemesis, Suzie Derkins notwithstanding.

Actually, there’s a pandemic going around.

Everyone, stay indoors, stay safe! We have lots of comics to read!

Just when you think things can’t get worse…

Just when you thought you were “free”, Calvin!

This strip is eerily prophetic.

Rosalyn must be a masochist.

Either mom bathes you or Roslyn bathes you. Your choice, Spiff.

That kid ain’t too bright

I think Rosalyn is the one yelling AUGHHHHH! Then she’s thinking $$$$$$

Get clean now, Cal. Then come clean after you’ve given Rosalyn another “night to remember” (or at least try to forget)!

As I recall … Calvin took a deeeep breath just before the last frame.

First a bath. Then Rosalyn. Is there no end to the punishment?

Lucky this was written decades ago. If it was today, Calviin’s parents would have to home school him! Can you imagine the scene?

Tackled at the door, a mid-afternoon bath (purgatory for a six year old boy), and then…Rosalyn….

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day on steroids.

The babysItter ones are always good!

“Is there some epidemic going around” oh my god

Might as well just bring out the straitjacket.

Given the standard interpretation of Calvin’s attitude toward Susie, perhaps he has a bit of a babysitter crush on Rosalyn.

Rough day, Cal.

I bathe in Purcell. With rose petals and scented candles. Just try to imagine …

Third panel so apropos…

I love calvin’s description of Hobbes, “ol’ catapult butt”.

What do you all have against Rosalyn? ;)

Calvin in the last panel == me pretty much every time I look at the news…

Good ole Roz!

I turned 70 today. My wife gifted me the hardcover edition of the Complete Calvin & Hobbes. Wonderful!

Well there’s one right now

Not being a parent I couldn’t say. But it seems to me they’d have much more success if they let kids take showers instead. I know that would’ve worked for me.