Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 23, 2011

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    margueritem  over 13 years ago

    I think you’ll need a lot more…

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    Charles Evans Premium Member over 13 years ago

    What a talented child!!

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    More clay or a smaller statue, but this wouldn’t be so impressive!

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    rayannina  over 13 years ago

    So would Calvin be War, Famine, Pestilence or Death?

    Given the back-and-forth with Susie Derkins, I’m guessing War.

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    DerkinsVanPelt218  over 13 years ago

    Centaurs are cool. Calvin centaur-no words can describe it.

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Actually, shouldn’t it be larger than life-sized to be impressive?

    Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!*

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    Hobbes Premium Member over 13 years ago

    His hair will be hard to do in clay.

    I can see it now…….. The five horsemen of the apocalypse………War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, and Big Snowballs Raining Down On Innocent People Walking Under Trees.

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    Yukoner  over 13 years ago

    Hmm, will it occur to him that he might get more clay if he digs up the back yard?

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    Ooops! Premium Member over 13 years ago

    I am very impressed.

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    vibjyor  over 13 years ago

    I can already ‘See’ the statue ! I am sure dad wont grudge a little bit more clay to have it completed.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    Probably Dad sometimes wishes Calvin were a statue.

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    dataweaver  over 13 years ago

    @rayannina: No, no, no; he’s the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse. Chaos.

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    Puddleglum2  over 13 years ago

    LeslieAnne, Are you perpetually 25 as Calvin is perpetually 6? I’ll bet you could get help with your snowpants quicker than Calvin got help with his snowpants, although tomorrow Calvin probably will get assistance sooner than he did today, much to his chagrin.

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    tis4kis  over 13 years ago

    @rayannina … He might be Taxes

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    tirnaaisling  over 13 years ago

    It’s a good thing professional sculptors don’t shop at Toys-R-US, the cost to city budgets for those ‘works of art’ that decorate every other street corner would be even more exorbitant! ^_^

    Calvin’s finished article will probably have the horse rearing up on it’s hind legs with Dad cowering on the ground while looking up in fear below the front legs.

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    COWBOY7  over 13 years ago

    Will Hobbes be part of this “monument”?

    G’morning, Grog, Marg & Mike!

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    thirdguy  over 13 years ago

    He should just go outside, and make his statue out of snow!! (if he can ever get his snowpants on!) Puddleglum ???

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    yuvrajhanspal  over 13 years ago

    @Calvin you’ll need just a “little” bit more clay…

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    rentier  over 13 years ago

    I made my school leaving examination in “music” and I had “The book with seven Seals” composed by Franz Schmidt.

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    florchi  over 13 years ago

    margueritem & yuvrajhanspal: Calvin’s supply of clay may be limited…but his imagination is not.

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    anewrun  over 13 years ago

    I can see it now, The Horseman of CALVIN

    C - Chaos A - Anarchy L - Lamentation V - Verve I - Insidious N - Nifty

    yes nifty too, can’t help it I like him

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    brick10  over 13 years ago

    Think minimalist. Stop at the hoof.

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    Ray_C  over 13 years ago

    Just get a huge lump of clay and remove everything that doesn’t look like a Horseman of the Apocalypse.

    Curmudgeon says: “modelling” should be “modeling.”

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    rshive  over 13 years ago

    Wonder which Horseman Calvin will be.

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    coltish1  over 13 years ago

    Hmmm, feet of clay. I couldn’t have guessed it.

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    jeffsxq  over 13 years ago

    @Ray C (aka Curmudgeon): Webster’s lists modeled, modelled, modeling, modelling all as valid spellings.

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    jeffsxq  over 13 years ago

    Interesting that Hobbes’ first thought, picturing Calvin on a horse, is of the apocalypse!

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    cleokaya  over 13 years ago

    Calvin, you will also need a large purchase of bronze for your final casting, or marble. Best to get dad’s credit card when he’s taking a nap.

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    vzs1022  over 13 years ago

    Just a tiny bit more.

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    rogue53  over 13 years ago

    Stupendous, followed by War, then Famine (to bed without dinner).

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    LeslieAnne  over 13 years ago

    puddleglum2 No I am not perpetually 25… I will be 26 in 7 months! I am not afraid of my age, and it comes from a line of women who weren’t afraid of their age. My mother is very proud to say she is 47!

    Calvin… to have enough clay to match the size of your imagination, it would take over the entire house!!!

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    anewrun  over 13 years ago

    i don’t think there will ever be enough clay, because he’s going to continue to add to his imagination.

    A Calvin World in clay

    jeffsxq , hobbes first thought is really interesting hmmm

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    hippogriff  over 13 years ago

    See Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle.

    When I was with the Vancouver Maritime Museum, I was a modeller. In Texas, I was a modeler. Now that effective tremor has set in, I am neither. :-(

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    gofinsc  over 13 years ago

    As Navin Johnson says, standing by the fence outside his house, “IT’S A START!”

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    ratlum  over 13 years ago

    A huge white horse rearing our hero holds his magic sword up high to slay any dragons that come near his fair maiden . Suzie ?

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    Ray_C  over 13 years ago

    *jeffsxq: True curmudgeons scoff at Webster’s. Not being a true curmudgeon, however, I will have to accept your correction.

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    musicnut1986  over 13 years ago

    With Calvin’s self confidence and ego, any statue he would create of himself would equal or even exceed anything Moammar Gadhafi has had created to honor himself.

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    Dino-1  over 13 years ago

    “Charge!”

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    khpage  over 13 years ago

    If Calvin is to be the Horseman of Chaos, suggest the horse be painted a nice, bright orange paisley….

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    glitterygal07  over 13 years ago

    And then when your mom walks in Calvin, you can make up that you have to do this horse statue for a school assignment.

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    musicnut1986  over 13 years ago

    All of this talk of horseman makes me think of this

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    We never limited ourselves to one such creation–which is why our clay didn’t seem to stay in any one shape very long.

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    SWEETBILL  over 13 years ago

    Calvin, can’t wait till your 7, knowledge is power, go guy….

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 13 years ago

    ♠Lonewolf♠ said: Will Hobbes be part of this “monument”?

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    Hobbes may be Calvin’s best friend but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’d be willing to share statue space with him!

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    chamin  over 13 years ago

    That’s more like 500 lawyers under the sea. A good start, but there’s a lot more to go.

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    Dino-1  over 13 years ago

    musicnut1986: That was pretty awesome, reminds me of the 60’s growing up! Very cool!

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