Santa seeing them when they’re sleeping etc hasn’t been much of a motivator for my kids. Losing a phone or a treat works sometimes. The most important things in my kids lives, YouTube and sugar.
All I want for Christmas is a brand new pardon, a brand new pardon, a brand new pardon, And if I can’t if I can’t have a brand new pardon, I guess I’ll just wear an orange jump suit.
I’ve read that Sunday’s newspapers often cut off the top horizontal panels to save space, and cartoonists made the top panels irrelevant to that day’s strip. Seems to be true.
Insight into the Noodle Incident! Today we learned that no one was killed, no one eaten..not even a felony was committed in the Noodle Incident. Calvin can relax!
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
It isn’t perjury if you cross your fingers.
codycab over 3 years ago
How much more desperate does Calvin have to be, that he actually does behave?
Templo S.U.D. over 3 years ago
you’re quite something, Calvin, when it comes to your behavior before and after Christmas year after year
mattro65 over 3 years ago
Santa seeing them when they’re sleeping etc hasn’t been much of a motivator for my kids. Losing a phone or a treat works sometimes. The most important things in my kids lives, YouTube and sugar.
SHIVA over 3 years ago
I gave up wondering what my kids have on their phones!!
GreasyOldTam over 3 years ago
I’m fairly sure Calvin didn’t vote Republican, either, which is good enough for me.
sirbadger over 3 years ago
He hasn’t killed anyone but if he keeps sledding like that, he might. Maybe Hobbes.
Bilan over 3 years ago
But since a child can’t commit a felony or start a war, that’s not a very good selling point.
orinoco womble over 3 years ago
That’s the stock response where I live if someone talks about moral behaviour etc. “I haven’t killed anybody.”
The Reader Premium Member over 3 years ago
Sorry furball, you’re known by the company you keep!
jamessveta over 3 years ago
Looking for some sort of loophole Calvin?
jpayne4040 over 3 years ago
Calvin, the key to the mystery is Santa goes by the parents’ interpretation of “good”.
rshive over 3 years ago
Hobbes knows Calvin better than to write a glowing character reference.
Who, me? over 3 years ago
Good throw-away humor in the first two frames. Watterson doesn’t fill space with just anything.
scotta775 over 3 years ago
Calvin is going to have the same concerns later in life about getting into Heaven.
joegeethree over 3 years ago
Hobbes might do it for a month of tummy rubs.
david_42 over 3 years ago
Sounds like my dogs, except it’s walks and biscuits.
lagoulou over 3 years ago
Snolep over 3 years ago
Maybe he could clean the slate by confessing and saying some Hail Santas.
awcoffman over 3 years ago
Congratulations to the commenters today. We were handed a golden opportunity to get political and no one took the bait (so far).
BRBurns1960 over 3 years ago
All I want for Christmas is a brand new pardon, a brand new pardon, a brand new pardon, And if I can’t if I can’t have a brand new pardon, I guess I’ll just wear an orange jump suit.
DCBakerEsq over 3 years ago
No one can ever prove I’ve committed murder or any other serious felony. Now, cannibalism might be a harder issue to address …
Calvinist1966 over 3 years ago
Hobbes would like the geese a-laying and might also like the ladies dancing.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Oddly enough, sometimes you need a bad character to give you a good character reference. …ironic.
DanWolfie over 3 years ago
Heh, that letter in the first panel sounds funny! Wish we could’ve seen more of it…
Steverino Premium Member over 3 years ago
Calvin is a great example of moral relativism. At least he is only partially self-aware.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 3 years ago
I feel the reason Watterson loved to do Christmas strips is that the concept of Santa Claus let him philosophize in a way other holidays don’t.
donwestonmysteries over 3 years ago
Judging from the number of times Hobbs has lain in wait to attack Calvin, his record is definitely not clean.
rstove428 Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’ve read that Sunday’s newspapers often cut off the top horizontal panels to save space, and cartoonists made the top panels irrelevant to that day’s strip. Seems to be true.
Plumb.Bob Premium Member over 3 years ago
In the modern remake of Citizen Cane his last words are “Calvin…”
chick485 over 3 years ago
To be good enough for Santa’s free Christmas gift, “You have to be good, even as Santa at the north pole is good.” (Some of y’all will get it.)
dcdete. over 3 years ago
I like the philosophy idiom, “Good is the absence of bad.” Confucius couldn’t have said it better.
RandomLantern445 over 3 years ago
Calvin, First of all, that’s just a song. Second of all, it wasn’t even Santa that gave those to him/her. It was his/her True Love.
gantech over 3 years ago
What a lawyer that kid will be some day…
Lightpainter Premium Member over 3 years ago
Insight into the Noodle Incident! Today we learned that no one was killed, no one eaten..not even a felony was committed in the Noodle Incident. Calvin can relax!
ChrisTrey over 3 years ago
Hobbes, every time you ambush Calvin you get on the “naughty” list. Surprised Calvin hasn’t used that line on Hobbes too.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 3 years ago
Flo, from Non Sequiter would say, “Good is a sliding scale, deah.”
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
Easy there, Hobbes. You still need Calvin to work the can openers.
Mando over 3 years ago
. . . Those dots were because I couldn’t think of anything to say.