Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 08, 2022

I feel sorry for that kid who was looking forward to some warm, and instead has his home invaded by SWAT.

If Santa didn’t get you what you want, Calvin, then there’s a reason. Take the hint.

Calvin really does remind me … a LOT … of a recently ex President.

Santa got that order mixed up with someone in the Russia Ukraine area.

Oh come on Calvin! Don’t you know that a shirt and socks is the modern equivalent to a lump of coal? Because who needs a lump of coal? Santa gave you that because you are a bad boy!

A long-range thermonuclear missile won’t fit through the opening in Santa’s bag of holding.

Santa was having a rough week. Production was behind schedule. Three elves were sick and the replacements that had been called in to help weren’t keeping up

As Santa was loading the sleigh the sack fell over and the toys fell all over the ground.

When Santa went to hitch up the reindeer he found that one was pregnant and about to give birth. Two had jumped the fence and were nowhere to be found.

Just then there was a tiny knock at the door. More delays. Santa was really getting annoyed. When he opened the door there stood a little angel with a Christmas tree. The angel asked Santa would like the tree to be put. . . . . . . And thus began the tradition.

…..A shaggy dog story if there ever was one….

North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un as a child.

Yup, he should have been on the coal list!

To me, thermonuclear missiles provide me with no yucks anymore in this day and age.

I don’t think it’s incompetence, Calvin…it’s that he knows what you’ll do with it!

I remember writing to Santa! My siblings and me usually got what we asked for….it was a short list…and toys weren’t as expensive like today! ☺️

Why in St. Nicholas’ name would a 5 year-old want a WMD?! He needs help, NOW!!

Had smart missiles even been invented in 1992?

But somebody else got a cheap missile and launcher.

Oh, oh… The next knock at Calvin’s door could be the FBI’s counter-terrorism unit.

Quick… where is Hobbes when we need him?

No receipt, no return. I hate to “rein” on his parade, but I hear customer service is a little “short” at the North Pole.

you tell him Calvin – Been what the government has been doing for years – giving stuff away for free and being run incompetently. And look where that got everyone. js

Santa missed an opportunity at humour, should have sent Calvin a thermos instead.

Santa: “No, no Rudolph…I said the Schmidt house…!”

So… Calvin never gets any toys for Christmas?

Maybe when he’s a little older …

I just imagined a Customs warehouse somewhere in USA overflowing with packages sent from North Pole from Santa, which contains everything from flamethrowers through tanks up to airplanes and custom officer on the verge of nervous breakdown meditating on when he should put their newest addition, intercontinental ballistic missile with 10 multiple independently targeted, re-entry thermonuclear warheads …

Quality Control is lacking everywhere.

Calvin’s new tactic involves criticizing the process then.

My parents still like to get my brother and I socks as a gag gift…

It’s ok, that kid lives in the mideast part of the world

Santa is peaceful not war-like.

Santa tried to deliver the missile, but it got intercepted by NORAD.

There have been a lot of protests outside Santa’s Chinese sweatshops, so he will be moving them to Vietnam, where there will be no problems…

Complaints about a service are worth what you pay for it, Calvin.

YAY Socks!

Calvin, obviously you weren’t good enough during the year to get what you wanted, and instead got the equivalent of coal.

Same free stuff strategy has worked for social media.

You should be grateful, at least you won’t be eaten by Jólakötturinn.

The incompetent organization which you are referring serves billions of kids round the globe, fella. For now, your thermo nuke can wait till you reach your teenage.

Who gives a 6 year old socks and a shirt for Christmas?