Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 28, 2010

Hobbes loves the ladies!

Perfect. Nobody deserves a valentine more. He is a tiger to the ladies.

Calvin’s off the hook!

Roses are red, violets are blue Susie Derkins, Calvin err…Hobbes loves you.

And the ladies LOVE Hobbes!!!!

What a stud!

Hobbes is a ladykiller!

Yeah! Tiger Would!

Susie believes in Hobbes? :-)

… and Hobbes believes in Susie!

Good one, WoodEye!

I think Calvin is actually disappointed.

So Susie believes that Hobbes is more than a stuffed toy.

Love to a girl can part best friends!

Calvin can carry the stuffed toy, but not big Hobbes!

Do you believe in Magic?

typical woman trickery. after all these years trying to land the fish she decides to go after another to make her actual victim jealous enough to give up to her feminine charms.

Pore Calvin!!!

Calvin. Beware the green eyed monster.

What I love about today’s strip is how quickly Hobbes appears to change his stripes, so to speak, when it turns out he is the intended recipient of Susie’s card. :-)

i’m willing to make a bet that calvin secretely was hoping the card really was for him, thats why he was so surprised it was for hobbes wink wink

If there’s anything a tiger is, it’s opportunistic.

It’s sad to see that in this supposedly liberal society that things like lawsuits and lawyers come into play when parents get involved with the innocents of children. Calvin’s wishes have come true in these times. Frivolous efforts that clog our court system. Common sense is out the door. Judges fold to these tactics instead of throwing them to the curb. Children divorcing their parents. Our Sue happy society for money or 15 mins of fame has lost the very fabric of which this country was premised on, Equality, Honesty and inherent Freedoms. Sorry to get caught up in this rant but see how things can get carried away with emotions instead of level headedness and common sense.

The merry-go-round runs again!

Smoochy, cuty, here I come!

I used to work for smooch city, but hating having to kiss-up for a promotion

@Randy- The judges you seem to think that can dismiss lawsuits at will are bound by law to hear and judge cases that come before them. The foundations of this country are those laws. People do abuse them, yes, but if you try to take away those rights (the right to be a sue-happy-dip-shit in most instances) then you begin to infringe on the right that others have. The legal system here is flawed but it truly is set up to protect the rights of all, even those that we feel don’t deserve rights at all. Calvin is incensed that the card was for Hobbes and not him.

We all know Hobbes is only real in Calvins imagination. So, how DID he get into that mailbox?

I agree with Joe Shmo. Just look at his face in the last panel, when he finds that the intended recipient is Hobbes! Also, why did Susie put Hobbes name in the back, instead of, err… say the front?

Randy Ready said,

“It’s sad to see that in this supposedly liberal society that things like lawsuits and lawyers come into play when parents get involved with the innocents of children. ”

Randy, who peed in your Corn Flakes this morning?

It’s a comic strip. It is intended to make us laugh at our selves and quirks. In my case, and those of many others, it has succeeded. End of story.

That you are reading something into this cute strip tells me that there is something amiss in your attitude and not the strip itself.

Give it a rest,: to paraphrase more than one great thinker (including Wiley Miller): “Sometimes a comic strip is just a comic strip.”

Real mature, Hobbes…

@BigGrouch “We all know Hobbes is only real in Calvin’s imagination.”

He is?

I think the whole point is that Susie reeeeally knows how to mess with Calvin’s head.

What would get to Calvin more than sending him a valentine? Sending Hobbes one, of course!

Hobbes is strange. Calvin does look disappointed when he sees the card is for Hobbes.

Lucky Hobbes! Though I still want to know what happens to Rosalyn’s notes…

Rosalyn where are your school notes? Bet you Susie really hugs teddy bears better than Calvin

@ratlum

Daily and Sunday don’t intermingle with each other, since Sunday comics need more time than the dailies (because of color), and not everyone gets to read both. The Rosayn arc will continue tomorrow.

yakkafoobmog:

1.) Hobbes is much “nicer” to Susie than Calvin is! 2.) I’d say that Susie was trying to make Calvin mad, jealous, or both!

P.S.: If Susie had mailed the Valentine’s Day card to “Hobbes The Stuffed Tiger” at that address, I wonder if the mailman would have still delivered it???

Bill Watterson said in the 10th anniversary collection that Calvin probably has a mild crush on Suzie. The reason he’s like this is because of how we are as kids, thinking that the opposite gender is “gross”.

Ah, MrsLuke: Love and hate are so closely intertwined. The opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. Calvin is far from indifferent.

Calvin - your anxiety disorder is showing - and now Suzie knows about it too….Hobbes could care less, of course - he’s a cat, and you know how they are…

RandyRandy: Did I miss a posting or something? How did the legal system get into this? Who is suing whom? And there aren’t any parents around. Hobbesissocute: And as to getting into the mail box, you just pull open the door. At least that’s all you have to do in my town.

Mrs. Skywalker, have you never tracked how real kids in the real world relate to each other as they grow up?

Trust us, these two are fonder of each other than either one of them (especially Calvin) will admit at this point. And if the author himself says that Calvin probably has a mild crush on Suzie, that alone says volumes.

In point of fact their personality types already are highly compatible. Once they get past the mutual irritations that their type differences and levels of maturity give them, they’ll realize just how good a team they can make, and then the sky’s the limit between them.

Alright Hobbes!!!!! Way 2 go!!!

I’m talking about THIS STRIP. I KNOW THIS STRIP, from beginning to end, 20 times over, but so many self proclaimed psychology professors here don’t talk about what actually took place in this strip, just blah, blah, blah. I took advanced psychology too. I talk about what ACTUALLY happened in this strip. You guys talk about what you imagine happens, but was never written. See the difference? I bet you can’t see that either. Just because you imagine it, doesn’t make it part of the story, so, once again…

I provided endless proof, and today’s strip is just more proof.

You can’t provide one strip that proves me wrong, so you just keep talking.

I do not agree with MrsLukeSkywalker, but there is absolutely no reason to call people vile names for how they feel on a subject. There are getting to be to many nasty things said here at Calvin and Hobbes. If you do not like what somebody says, fine, but to resort to name calling makes the person throwing the insults look pretty lame.

Why on earth do you protest so much MrsLukeSkywalker? Do you think it’s dirty or disgusting if they like or perhaps love each other? I don’t think so. They are 6 years old. Why such the angst? My daughter already has picked out 2 boys she’s going to marry. Just in case the first one says no. I find it sweet and cute.

Search Wikipedia, Calvin and Hobbes. Look under sub-section Susie Derkins. Last line says “Watterson admits that Calvin and Susie have a nascent crush on each other, and that Susie is inspired by the type of woman that he himself found attractive and eventually married.”

Amazing! Something as sweet and innocent and comical as “Calvin and Hobbes” becomes “State of the Union!”

I agree with Dry.

Wo. Such anger at what is suppose to be a funny strip. I think Calvin is just jealous after rantin and ravin that his best friend in the world Hobbes gets the girl. But Calvin in some way is a typical boy who doesn’t like girls at his age.

Susie gave a Valentine to somebody else’s stuffed animal? She’s going to have a rich therapist some day.

@mrprongs lol

Actually she’s just goading him. I recall when she sent an invitation to Hobbes for her birthday party. On the back was written something to the effect “oh you can bring Calvin if you want to.”

Susie’s no dummy!! And neither was the cartoonist, but then what would he know about his own comic strip? Good thing he’s got commenters now to tell him what he meant.

I’m disappointed that with all this argueing, Hobbes’ comment in panel 2 has been completely overlooked.

Calvin doesn’t do anything else but carry Hobbes around.

Susie thinks Hobbes is real too. Very interesting…

At that age, children like to believe and imagine that their stuffed playmates are real (especially if they are only children with no one else to really play with). If Hobbes is just as real to Calvin as Susie’s dolls are to her, then why wouldn’t she believe Hobbes is “real” too?

“Does the postmaster general know about this?” Every time I’ve ever read that I laugh so hard. Too funny.

Hobbes and Susie sitting in a tree

Why doesn’t Calvin just make fun of Hobbes now?