Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 26, 2022

Calvin doesn’t need Moe. He does a pretty good job bullying himself.

have fun, Calvins

Takes a lazy punk to know a lazy punk, Calvin.

My yesterday comment was right, and this is the first time I read this arc. Did I win anything?

If enough Calvins get together, they can each write a sentence and be done in no time..

The truth is that 9:30 Calvin is going to be stuck writing it.

If they each write a third of the story, it will be like the Star Wars sequels where the two directors were not on the same page.

Hobbes has the right idea, just leave and let Calvin figure it out. Wherever Hobbes went off to, I’m with him.

If an infinite number of Calvins, all at different points on the same timeline were given the same homework assignment; what is the probability that the 9:00 am Calvin will be getting a detention for not doing his homework?

If Hobbs were only taking notes on all this, Calvin would have his story.

So—will beating up the 7:30 Calvin get the homework done??

I am he as you are he as you are me

And we are all together

If the 8:30 Calvin beats up the 7:30 Calvin, won’t he only be hurting himself as well?

There is no problem too big that it can’t be solved by blaming it on someone else.

REPUBLOCRATS ! ( all ) The higher up one goes, the least responsible one is for ones , ACTIONS !

At what point between 6:30 and 8:30 did Calvin change his shirt, and why?

The usual. Blame someone who isn’t there to defend himself.

@Fflashbang- Yep. He’d fit right in.

One conspiracy of dunces coming up.

This can’t end well…

Most villains seem to spend a huge amount of time plotting their evil machinations. If Calvin had spent the time doing the paper right away, this wouldn’t be happening and he wouldn’t be Calvin, would he? He’ll never see it.

You would think 8:30 Calvin would remember this conversation and how things turned out.

“Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?”

A paradox is not just 2 doctors in the same room.

I have just been looking at the replies to my comments yesterday. I remarked that the story arc reminds me of a Phoebe and her Unicorn strip from March-April around three years ago. Someone asked me who would name a unicorn Marigold. The answer is that Dana Simpson did as she created the strip which was largely influenced by Calvin and Hobbes. Marigold’s full name is Marigold Heavenly Nostrils and Phoebe’s full name is Phoebe Grizelda Howell.

This does sound like some of the conversations I have with myself

The great polymath and science fiction author Stanislaw Lem (known best in the U.S. for “Solaris”), wrote a very wide variety of books. One character, Ijon Tichy, is a whimsical astronaut/explorer. When he has rudder trouble on his spaceship, he passes through an area of temporal anomalies, which results in meeting different day-of-the-week versions of himself, eventually versions from his youth to his old age. He hits one of his future versions and suffers the injury later himself. After several such confusions in a very crowded spaceship a general melee ensues, he wakes up to find the rudder has been fixed. He had been saved by the bravery and ingenuity of himself as two small boys sharing the single spacesuit!

Take it easy. Don’t beat yourself up over this.

My Calvin self had homework done by 4:30 pm. Plenty of play time outside, homework and television, before dad got home for supper.

Great faces on the Calvins in the last panel!

Just waiting for a few dozen Doug Kinneys (or at least a few dozen Homer Simpsons, excluding the odd Peter Griffin of course) to show up in panel 5.

Ms. Wormwood’s gonna love this explanation…

The dissociative identity disorder is in full bloom now.

It is funny because it is true

The amount of mental gyrations Calvin goes through to avoid doing something is truly amazing.

There is an infinite number of Calvin’s between any two points in time.

Classic Predestination Paraoox. A Predestination Paradox occurs when the actions of a person traveling back in time becomes part of past events, and may ultimately causes the event he is trying to prevent to take place. This results in a ‘temporal causality loop’ in which Event 1 in the past influences Event 2 in the future (time travel to the past) which then causes Event 1 to occur, with this circular loop of events ensuring that history is not altered by the time traveler, and that any attempts to stop something from happening in the past will simply lead to the cause itself, instead of stopping it. This paradox suggests that things are always destined to turn out the same way, and that whatever has happened must happen. Poor Calvin….

“We have met the enemy and he is us.” – the two Calvins, by way of Pogo