Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 10, 2011

Uh oh…reinforcements…

Here they come!

The snow goons are taking over!

Run Away, Run Away!!!!

This would be a good time to pray for global warming.

“28 Days Later” snowman version

You’re not the only one who has been busy building.

I loved the Snow Goon series. Just how far can Calvin stray from reality? Admitedly Space man Spiff is pretty far but the snow goons were very concrete, and his parents didn’t really understand at all, as usual. Of course everything is concrete to Calvin and Hobbes. I guess that the best feature of a friend is how they support your take on reality. Maybe I’m just being cynical. I think winter is hard on people. Winter is hard to surivve without snow goons. I sometimes think Calvin lived in Michigan. He experiences a lot of winter with wonderful summers in a lot of forest. Mr. Waterson lives much farther south of course, and I speak his name with some reverence.

The Snow Troopers are massing….

The third one has such a stupid facial expression!

Lot’s of salt, the enemy of snow goons everywhere.

I still can’t spell it (or pronounce) but where is Calvin’s tranmogulater ( SP? Not even close, eh?)

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

A flame thrower would be good at this point. Can you imagine Calvin with a flame thrower?

Von Neumann snow-goons!

I think he should call on Lio for some inter-creation counseling. Lio seems to have such a good rapport with snow monsters.

Lewreader - I think Calvin calls it his transmogrifier.

Calvin’s last stand?

I think Calvin better get Suzie she’ll know what to do!

You are doomed, Calvin! DOOMED!

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Lewreader, I don’t know what you were trying to spell, but when I looked it up (with your spelling) on google, your comment came up twice.

Lakesnake, it’s the transmogrifier, and it’s a word Clavin made up. He could use it to turn them into something else, which seems like a good strategy. What was the point of your comment btw?

OMG! They better build a bigger fort pronto!

lakesnake, I believe Lewreader has posted similar comments on different days. Obviously what he was trying to refer to was the trasmogrifyer.

It looks like there will soon be a goon squad. What good is a fort when you have not yet selected a weapon to use against them. I suggest building a fire and roasting marshmallows. The snow goons will dare not approach and you can maybe even make smores.

Forget the fort Calvin! Start building some cute female snow goons!!!

Thanks Grog. I need all the help I can get. :)

chovil said ” I think winter is hard on people. Winter is hard to surivve without snow goons. I sometimes think Calvin lived in Michigan. He experiences a lot of winter with wonderful summers in a lot of forest. Mr. Waterson lives much farther south of course, and I speak his name with some reverence.”

You’ve got the right idea- though it’s never explicitly stated, there’s lots of evidence that Calvin lives in Ohio (House by the giant letter E in the word “States” according to Hobbes, picture of Chagrin Falls town triangle on back of “The Essential Calvin and Hobbes,” the fact that Bill Watterson grew up there, etc.) I believe Mr Watterson does, in fact, live much farther south these days, though he is hard to track.

There’s my 2 cents. Also, this is one of my favorite story lines.

You need to borrow the hair dryer from Birdbrains, Calvin!

G’Morning, Mike, Grog & Marg!

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Somehow Ducas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice started running through my head.

what will the snow goons exactly do to Calvin when they get hold of him ?!?

Looks like in panel 3 they are rehearursing a tune for the new group “THREE GOONS”

Calvin’s smarter and more powerful than he thought!

Actually Paul Dukas, but my first thought too was the “Snowceror’s Apprentice”.

use the force evil snowman use the force

Goons building Goons without Calvins instructions ,you think thats scary ? I worry that my computer might get that idea, now thats scary.

Look, would you please get to the end of this story. I’ve been having bad dreams for a week now,

His Transmogrifier….that is what Calvin needs now…turn the goons into bunnies

Self replicating monsters make me think of the Orks in Lord of the Rings. Time to get out the magic stick, er wand, Calvin…..

Hey, what do I know. I was a Brit Lit Major and transmogrifyer wasn’t in use until after the seventeenth century.

Calvin there in only one thing to do: Listen to HOBBS!!!

I have always liked the snowmen better than spaceman spiff.

If his dad had a boat he could steal the flare gun and give the killer mutant a bad case of heart burn. Of course now there are more of them!

ANNIE FANS

Why don’t we do what the Brenda Starr fans are doing? Go back to the beginning of the GoComcs archive and read one strip a day and comment on it? The story there is 8 years old and we’ve pretty much forgotten it anyhow. Besides, it would be great to see the old Annie gang reassemble.

http://www.gocomics.com/annie/2001/04/08/

Lewreader: It’s spelled transmogrifier. You were also wrong, Grog and Lakesnake.

Time to bring in the heavy artillery