Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 16, 2022

Santa is testing you, Calvin.

What part of “Be good all year” do you not get, Calvin?

twenty times the good luck you, Calvin

Calvin’s got the self control of a flea on a hot griddle.

I hope Susie creams him!!!

Or have three more days of fun and then do 40 a day

That plan will work about as well as most people’s New Year’s resolutions …

Hell, if Calvin were my kid I’d be egging him on. I have a wood furnace that can also burn coal, where I live in NY state’s North Country.

You’re hopeless, Calvin.

Calvin obviously isn’t Catholic.

Good deeds are difficult, Calvin. Especially where Susie is involved.

It’s snow good, Calvin. You’re Krampus bait………

Your spontaneity amuses me.

Temptation wins again!

Santa is the devil. Grants your wishes and has a billion followers.

You can’t just start flossing a week before your dental appointment.

“That’s Pretty Many?”

Today’s strip is a good comment on human nature. Think about how people approach dieting and someone above mentioned New Year’s resolutions.

So, he is planning to be spontaneous?

His plan should be to stop throwing snowballs until after Christmas, then throw twice as many a day until spring. Problem solved

Being good is like going to the gym. The less you do it the harder it is when you do.

“I can claim I’ve turned a new leaf!” Now, there’s a formula for righteous success!

When he sees an opportunity…….hit or miss, he takes it!

It seems like a solid plan to me that definitely cannot fail and has no downsides.

“Pretty many”?

Yesterday evening, I watched the episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in which the pregnant wife bashes her husband with a frozen lamb after he announces he is leaving her for another woman. I have mentioned that episode before and someone claimed not to remember the wife being pregnant. Early in the episode, the wife mentions a superstitious test to see if her coming baby will be a boy or a girl.

Calvin will fail.

LOL… it’s Calvin’s destiny. He will eventually marry Susie and have a couple ‘little’ Calvins to torment him. Also known in the community as “Susie’s Revenge”… LOL

“Maybe if I just discovered a cure for cancer on December 23rd?”

Calvin’s favorite target for a snowball — can’t pass it up ! ! ! ! !

Sadly one “Oh Sh. . .ot” wipes out 100 “At a boy”.

20 spontaneous acts of good will in one day? His head will explode.

And, maybe Santa will bring you presents next year …

It’s all about quotas.

If I were Susie, (which I actually AM),,, I would just stay as far away from darling Calvin as I could get….ALL THE TIME!

That’s me put off today what you will not do tomorrow!

You’d better start right away, Calvin. You think ten spontaneous acts of good will is hard, twenty will be even worse!

Not exactly an October surprise.

20 is the number of deeds Calvin needs to be doing RIGHT NOW.

Calvin and his proverbial goalposts!

Nice try Calvin. Santa may forgive you for that but that pretty Susie is too smart for you, fella.

That’s like trying to diet in December.