Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 10, 2022

And still, people want to live as long as possible.

A bright future awaits…..

At least when you work, you get paid. I can’t think of a single thing that makes school worth it.

Calvin could get a dangerous job. He’s already a stuntman, crash test dummy and vocabulary teacher. Teaching kids can be dangerous.

True, true!

I love the expression on Calvin’s face in the last panel. Reality’s a real b!tch, eh Calvin?

Welcome to the real world, Calvin!

Nothing ruins a good rant like the truth (unless you’re Trump).

Don’t worry Calvin, i don’t look back on my schooling days with fondness either. Too much conformity and too much bullying! ;P

Perspective

You get to school to get a job. If you don’t choose well, each phase will be misery. Oh what the heck. Doesn’t matter what kind of job you get. Someone is going to want to make you miserable!

Loving the expression in the last panel……

Oh, come on Calvin, turn that frown upside down.

No? OK, then be a grouch.

And lets hope you work most every weekend to avoid your bratty, whiney kid.

Anyone wanna bet that if the situations WERE reversed, Dad would be whining about having to go to school??

I wish there was online schooling in the ’50’s and ’60’s when I was a student.

Imagine: no bitchy teachers, no bullying classmates…

Love the expression in the final panel.

Like my son once said (after reaching adulthood and starting a family)“This grown up s**t sucks”

Better to find out about life early…get the disappointment over with while young. Why wait?

Don’t forget the price of gasoline, empty grocery and pharmacy shelves, rampant crime, inflation in one form or another, a horrifying war in the Ukraine, pandemics, rewritten history, etc.

Jon Anderson and Vangelis had a similar idea: https://youtu.be/UT6GVf0rESg

Preferred working to school.

This hits harder when I read it as an adult

School, then work, then death. Sweet, sweet death.

I have had this comic at work for years!!! I never got married so I never had children (I am one of those people who believe in marriage) but I can understand. Oh what fun it would have been.

School looks better now, eh Calvin?

Calvin will be a house husband, getting his SF writing done while his wife, Susie Derkins, bills $400/hour for the law firm she is a partner of.

Calvin’s really a talented kid but then there’s not much demand for snowman builders anymore.

I realized while I was in school that I had it made. Guess I was unusual.

Ya know, I’m actually having a pretty good morning, and not even Dad’s cynical comments (and Calvin’s predictable yet understandable response) will bring me down…

Cheer up. There’s always death to look forward to.

This sounds a bit like how I tell my cat that she should do my work for me while I stay under the nice warm covers.

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Hasn’t worked yet, but you never know….

I used Calvin’s last line here so many times when I was younger…

Only 60 years till retirement, Calvin.

what is wrong with calvin’s face in the fourth panel

The price of a high standard of living is often preferable to the price of a low standard of living. Either way, you have to work. It just depends on how immediate your needs are. The alternative to both is not living.

I keep waiting for Karma/payback but my progenies show no interest in bearing offspring…

Look on the bright side, someday you’ll be Moe’s boss

Character(s)

The ultimate kid curse is, I hope when you grow up you have kids just like you.

Well, you may have to go to school and you may have to go to work – but at least you don’t have to have a kid, whether they’re whiny or not.

I bet Dad’s not going to be the one to tell Calvin that, though. He probably doesn’t like being reminded he wanted a dachshund instead.

Don’t fall for that despondent view, Calvin. With your wit and vigor, you will manage all with ease, besides standing for the senator.

I love Calvin’s dad

Ha! Ha! What a lie! One of the greatest perks of adulthood is, if you find the right job, it’s only 8 hours a day with NO HOMEWORK. Even with a 40-hour job, I’m working LESS THAN HALF as long as I did in school. And I get paid for it too! I wouldn’t want to be a school kid again for ANYTHING.

So Ukraine is a country. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So basically that’s wrong. And it goes against everything that we stand for

A few weeks ago he was yelling at Calvin for bad grades. Now he is making snarky, sarcastic remarks about school? Sounds like Dad needs a long talk with the man in the mirror before he worries about Calvin’s problems.

This is the sort of strip that makes you wonder whether Watterson preferred childhood or adulthood.

Calvins face is classic,

My Father didn’t often speak of it but he was from a farm family and you had to go to school AND work when you got home.

Calvin’s dad’s an asshole.

Not having kids IS an option!