Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 29, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 3 years ago

    More surreal than existential.

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    Minecraft Pro (simp detective.  over 3 years ago

    Prediction that is 100% correct cause am mod: Reversed Calvin is gonna do something bad which makes him disappear.

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    codycab  over 3 years ago

    Good or not, Calvin makes a terrible “Jiminy Cricket”.

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    ImDaRealAni  over 3 years ago

    Is this called a 3rd wheel, Hobbes?

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    Foxtrot snowday ('Sup Roblox peeps)  over 3 years ago

    Good Calvin is breaking his code!

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Is Hobbes going to break up the fight?…..

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    eolan59  over 3 years ago

    Stop hitting yourself

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    wykstrad  over 3 years ago

    There are three fundamental story types that recur across all cultures:- Calvin vs. Hobbes- Calvin vs. Society- Calvin vs. Calvin

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    Robin Harwood  over 3 years ago

    Even Calvin’s good side has its limits.

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    Vivi <333  over 3 years ago

    LOL

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    TwilightFaze  over 3 years ago

    The battle of good vs. evil.

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    bluram  over 3 years ago
    Here’s your chance Hobbes, go pounce on both of ‘em. You’ll never get a better opportunity.
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    Paul Hetherington  over 3 years ago

    Said the imaginary tiger!

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    GreggW Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Wow, like that scene in Superman III where contaminated, made nasty Superman takes on his conscience or whatever.

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    wrloftis  over 3 years ago

    Today’s Barney & Clyde: https://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2021/03/29

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    BigDaveGlass  over 3 years ago

    Reminds me of a “Star Trek” episode…..

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    Carolyn Saunders  over 3 years ago

    Time for Hobbes to go get a smoochie from Suzie

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    Troglodyte  over 3 years ago

    No winners here.

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    jagedlo  over 3 years ago

    Calvin’s not-so-civil war…

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    jrankin1959  over 3 years ago

    LOVE Hobbes’ comment!

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    tremaine53  over 3 years ago

    It’s classic “good vs. evil”, Hobbes. It doesn’t get any more existential than this!

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    Doug Taylor Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This is turning into a Star Trek episode.

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    tripwire45  over 3 years ago

    Didn’t this happen to Captain Kirk in a transporter accident a long time ago?

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  over 3 years ago

    Them’s fighting words!

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I thought opposites attracted? Maybe Calvin isn’t all that opposite. …just contrary.

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    Nyckname  over 3 years ago

    Judging by the words that he puts in Hobbes’ mouth, he’s always wrestling with his conscience.

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    Earnestly Frank  over 3 years ago

    Things will be OK. Don’t beat yourself up over it.

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    Calvinist1966  over 3 years ago

    Today’s strip reminds me of the marvellous story arc in which Calvin and Hobbes travelled two hours into the future by using the cardboard box as their time machine rather than their duplicator. We had two versions of Calvin and two of Hobbes.

    Calvin and Calvin then travelled back an hour to meet another future Calvin after the earlier Calvin came Back From The Future. A fight nearly broke out between the first two Calvins but the mid-Calvin said to the earliest Calvin, “Go ahead and hit me! My future self is the one who’ll feel my pain.”

    Meanwhile the two versions of Hobbes were interacting with each other an hour in the future as the time-travelling Hobbes had stayed with the future Hobbes. This was the only time we saw the living Hobbes interacting with someone other than Calvin since Calvin seems to be the only character Hobbes can interact with. As Bill Watterson has explained, it isn’t that Hobbes isn’t alive when other people are watching him but that they see him as a stuffed doll.

    Eventually, the two Calvins went Back To The Future and were re-united with the earlier Hobbes and the later Hobbes. The earlier Calvin and Hobbes returned to the past and the story arc continued with the later Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin showed that he was unaware of what Hobbes had been up to while he had been an hour in the past.

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    petermerck  over 3 years ago

    Norman lost out to his mother. Will Calvin lose to mr. Goody goody? I doubt it.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 3 years ago

    Watterson went deep with this one didn’t he?

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    JudyHendrickson  over 3 years ago

    And now will the real Calvin please stand up?

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    Bookworm  over 3 years ago

    I think, therefor I am. Dammit.

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    gantech  over 3 years ago

    So, could one conclude from this that given sufficient stress and provocation, “good Calvin” could revert back to the original?

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    ChessPirate  over 3 years ago

    Have you ever noticed that in TV shows and movies where someone meets “himself” (Time Traveler, Clone, whatever…), they almost never get along… ☺

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    flagmichael  over 3 years ago

    “Who are you calling a jerk…?” I’m calling me a jerk, and by that I mean you.

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    Ken in Ohio  over 3 years ago

    If we could enter the strip and interview Susie, Calvin’s Mom, the school teacher, etc. would any of them report having these experiences with “good Calvin”? In other words, did Calvin actually take a bath, comb his hair, eat healthy cereal, do his homework early in the evening, visit Susie, etc. etc. Just to act out this fantasy? Or, did Calvin sit in his room and imagine all of this fantasy without interacting with any of the other folks?

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    DanWolfie  over 3 years ago

    So much for the clone being Calvin’s good side now! I love those cartoonish-looking fights the strip often features…

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    CeceliaWD Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This could be the ultimate Calvin and Hobbes. Mic drop.

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    johndifool  over 3 years ago

    Love = Hate

    And Death = Fate

    An Enemy always = An Adorer

    But Priest = Aura

    But Life = Time

    And Time = Space

    And Space = Sublime

    And Human = Race

    Oh and Woman = Man

    And Part = Pan

    The Fauna ought to = The Flora

    But Priest = Aura

    And Beginning = The End

    And the End always = The Start

    But Straight = Bent

    The Mind sometimes = The Heart

    And You = Me

    The Land = The Sea

    Richer = Poorer

    And Priest = Aura

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    Calvins Brother  over 3 years ago

    Kinda like The Outer Limits or Twilight Zone.

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    hornacek  over 3 years ago

    Getting some big “The Enemy Within” vibes here, except Calvin wasn’t split into good and evil versions – his original self is the evil version.

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    dadlivonia  over 3 years ago

    isn’t this the Singularity?

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    kathleenhicks62  over 3 years ago

    Good vs evil-what is this “Star Wars”?

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    flagmichael  over 3 years ago

    I just noticed the near reflection of the two in the third panel. Faces, hands, body position…. The “alter ego” thing has been done before but not with this attention to detail. Genius, I tell ya!

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    Joseph Orr  over 3 years ago

    This is how the movie “Fight Club” was born.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    I ran into my goody-goody doppelgänger once, but he was pretty cool. He even loaned me fifty bucks.

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    Spence12 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Only Calvin could bring out the badness of his completely-good side.

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    cracker65  over 3 years ago

    Okay, this really went over the edge. I used to work with a guy who was a veitnam vet. He had mental issues. One day, at his locker, he got in an argument with himself. He lost the argument. He got different medication, and did a lot better.

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    uniquename  over 3 years ago

    I always loved Hobbes’ comment at the end.

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    NoSleepTil_BKLYN  over 3 years ago

    This fight’s been a long time coming for this kid!

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    Santaanacanyon1  over 3 years ago

    Ha! Fitting punchline at panel four.

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    MikeM_inMD  over 3 years ago

    I’m glad to see that good-side Calvin can put up a fight in righteous anger, unlike in the Star Trek episode where Kirk got split.

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    hmvanyel  over 3 years ago

    Isn’t this when Spock comes out and gives the Vulcan Nerve Pinch to the “Good” Calvin?

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    WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago

    So…it’s kind of like the original Series Star Trek: “Let this be your last battlefield?”

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    edonline  over 3 years ago

    Wondering Mom and Dad would be seeing if they were looking out the window – Calvin punching himself while rolling on the ground?

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    Scoutmaster77  over 3 years ago

    Every time-travel story ever written…

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    cleokaya  over 3 years ago

    Now I know where the expression “don’t go beating yourself up “ originated

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    kmccjoe1  over 3 years ago

    Popeye still has Calvin beat when ol’ Squint-Eye declaims, “I yam what I yam!” Dioscoreas everywhere rejoice!

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    evanmarhews  over 3 years ago

    i fight my good side and bad side all the time !!

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    hagarthehorrible  over 3 years ago

    Thus goes thr fight between the good and the bad.

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    redback  over 3 years ago

    it may change the world, right up there with the Bernoulli Convergenator

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