Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 20, 2021

The real thing is far worse.

In the brain and in the heart. The two places you want to be shot in LEAST.

Yeah. It is a stupid game.

You could play politics…..but that’s stupid, too.

When Calvin realizes the stupidity of one of his made up games.

At least this game ended unlike some wars I can think of.

Since we orginally came from ocean bacteria then evolved to monkeys then evolved to humans that are hell bent on self destruction to prove individual superiority, what else did you expect!

MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction

Too bad adults have never figured that out.

There’s a flaw there. Isn’t the purpose of a hard helmet so that you don’t get killed by a dart? Calvin isn’t dead there.

War is stupid and needs to end, much like the military-industrial complex that thrives on it

Not just one of the greatest C&H strips, one of the truly great comic strips. The first two panels are awesome, n and of themselves.

Defender of American Liberty and Godless Communist Oppressor are getting along rather well for the past few decades. Now that might be called playing Peace. Good job everybody.

And now – you heroes of the suction cup dart-war – open a can of tomato-soup and create fake blood stains to make a picture for the War-hall of shame-fame

Probably the closest thing to a political strip C&H ever got. Of course when I first read it I was way too young to get it.

MAD in action.

The only winning move is not to play.

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

There are plenty of role models for Peace. But they’re not sensationalistic enough to be on the news.

should post this on Veterans Day

Yes Calvin, yes it is.

AMEN !

Imagine

I remember hating playing war. I’d be outside playing with my friends and my brother would come by & say, “Who wants to play war?” The kids all went off with him, and I’d just go do something else by myself.

Seems like a funny strip…unless you live in Hong Kong, China, Russia, or North Korea.

Life of politics in 2021.

Wow! Just Wow! Most awesome strip ever.

War is Stupid too! Not a game.

Mutually assured destruction

This strip is running the day after Juneteenth. The new national holiday celebrating the date when the United States was able to officially end slavery . But only after a long and bloody war.

Ironic the a stuffed tiger is ‘the loathsome godless communist oppressor’

“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow fond of it.” Robert E. Lee.

With push-button weaponry, “smart” bombs and drones, has war lost it’s terror?

Don’t get me wrong. If I have to fight a war, I want things like smart bombs that can “neutralize” a target with minimum “collateral damage.” Which is the polite way of saying, we’re not going to kill more people than we have to.

I did the math on the Afghanistan war. At the rate we were losing soldiers, it would take 73 YEARS to accumulate the casualties that the British sustained in the first DAY of the Battle of the Somme in World War I.

Every war is two conflicts. There is the military conflict in which the United States has traditionally done well and the political conflict in which our results have not always been good.

If you combine the wisdom of Sun Tzu in the Art of War, you will realize: Be slow to start a war and be quick to finish it.

Politicians start was and expect soldiers to finish them.

I agree with Calvin – it’s stupid. I disagree with Calvin – it’s not a game.

Even Calvin figures it out- – - What’s with the world leaders?

War Games

Reminds me of Dr. Seuss’ Butter Battle Book, about nuclear proliferation, which ends with each side holding a weapon that will annihilate the other side, but each afraid to drop it in case the other one does the same thing.

How exactly does a suction cup dart stick to Hobbes’s furry chest?

“A strange game. The only winning move is to not play.” W.O.P.R. system in War Games.

But we are a warlike species. Blame it on evolution or blame it on the Serpent of Eden. We are competitive, and will compete to the death if necessary.

You know, there have been a couple of attempts to market children’s games where instead of having a number of players compete to win, the players had to cooperate to achieve a common goal.

Can you name one?

We sure seem to love War over Peace, Dystopias over Utopias.

This is one of Watterson’s best all time Sunday strips, even if contains some elements that are now very dated. The doctrine of Mutually Assisted Destruction itself seems almost innocent today.

Yep! You may be able to defeat your Enemy. But in the end nobody really Wins.

And yet it’s being played out in congress on a daily basis.

War doesn’t determine wno’s right, only who’s left.

Watterson was a failed editorial cartoonist, but this is a pretty good editorial. Too bad the US establishment hasn’t heeded the message.

Out of the mouths of babes

“The only winning move is not to play”

Who Won?

Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

How about a nice game of chess?"

- W.O.P.R.

Wow! Just “Wow!”

I still remember arriving at my (infantry) unit in the fall of 1986 and this comic was taped next to the C.Q. desk.

Lived that game through how many Presidents?

Shades of “Wargames”.

Indeed it is Calvin

MAD!

Zor and Zam, by The Monkees:Two little kings playing a game.They gave a war and nobody came.https://www.bing.com/search?q=zor+and+zam+lyrics&cvid=c5d931f054d54ba9a5e4cb6de3b503d3&aqs=edge.1.69i57j0l5.4001j0j1&pglt=43&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531

MAD-Mutually Assured Destruction

Pretty much the ending of War Games.

This is brilliant. Thank you. ex-12C10

Kind of…

thats cause you’re playing it wrong….your not suppose to die for your country the other guys suppose to die for his

MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction.

When was this strip originaly published ?