Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 15, 2014

Mastered the skill of hiding.

Calvin wants to be carried on the back, my father and my brother did this with me, when I was a little child, it was funny and I loved it!

Early man had a very short life span: Just long enough to parent the next generation but hardly long enough to pass their experiences onto the next generation.

Good question, Hobbes. One of the great mysteries of life:how it has gone on in spite of all our efforts to the contrary.

To answer Hobbes question: despite your best efforts our brains kept getting larger. But it did take awhile. While yours remained the same. Now there are more tigers in captivity than in the wild. Now we have to work hard to keep you from becoming extinct. Poachers. They want your hide, bones, and organs. Some people will pay big bucks. They think they’re magic.

Good question Hobbes. After hours of deep research into Calvin’s ancestry we find that Calvin comes from a long line of vegetarians.

We’ve survived because we sticked to the first panel.

It seems clear that Hobbes is more massive than Calvin, for one thing. ;)

Well, for one thing we didn’t usually attack tigers. They don’t grow on the African Savannah. For another if we’re not overfed couch potatoes we are actually extremely good runners. Add a frontal lobe to that and Viola! a creature that is capable of destroying the planet just to make sure they can get to McDonald’s faster than anyone else.

The first panel is scary.

xxx

Thanks. Not my mother tongue.

Difficult when he’s of an age where he’s likely to be missing some front teeth…

Funny:)

Rudimentary tools 101: pick up a rock, beat something with it. For example, the animal you would like to eat.