Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 05, 2020

Calvin is no Job.

Or if people are impatient

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.

You could try becoming Zeus, Calvin.

This is a job for Stupendous Man .

I was hoping to hear of one back in January 2017 but it never happened.

But it is easy to be religious when your life is flashing before your eyes.

Still looking for the Church Of What Goes Around with Preacher Payback at the pulpit. Would not be so much having Services as it would be Serving It Up.

Don’t know what the attitude is now. But my elementary school didn’t have any play equipment. Our recess time was outside. But we mostly ended up either standing or running around playing tag.

I couldn’t agree more.

Well, looks like Mr. personality has made an appearance. And an unwanted one at that.. Moe is probably my least favorite character in this strip. He is just a meathead with a capital “M”..

…never are incinerated…

Very true Calvin

Where’s Kali when you need her?

Where is the teacher in all this?

There’s more than one way to skin a Moe.

I wonder what John Calvin (after whom Calvin is named) would say about this.

Karma is not necessarily instantaneous.

The irony is that bullies oftentimes rely on religion to justify the bullying.

Delayed justice.

No Job, but he is a piece of work!

My first therapist once asked where I thought the people who left me for dead were today. I realized there were two possibilities for each of them: they stayed on the dark path and were likely in prison, a part of the life they chose; or they saw the light and led a better life, but since we didn’t know each other they would have no way to make amends. Imagine that: making it to a brighter future and feeling a guilt that could never be absolved. When PTSD is not hammering on me I feel like I got the better deal: a life free from that sort of guilt.

Maybe Mo will be nicer to you if you sit next to him at lunch and tell him what your are eating.

Haha,good job Moe.

I’ve often wondered where the heck Miss Wormwood is when these things happen…

À propos.

Voting them out of office isn’t instant enough, for certain.

Amen

Stop looking for signs.

What good is a pet tiger if he can’t eat your enemies…..

My all-time favorite C&H strip. I cut this one out of the paper on its original publication date and it is still magneted to my refrigerator door. Yellowed and faded, but still true.

Either it’s comic exaggeration or Moe is ridiculously strong.

“Hmm, I guess it was his turn…” ☺

God is not your personal genie. He doesn’t grant wishes.

Try to hold on for a few more years. You can go visit him in prison…

This is practically the advertisement for isometrics that used to be in the back of comic books.

Not in this life. However, unless Moe repents and trusts Jesus, he IS going to be incinerated forever. That’s a whole lot longer than right now. Is that long enough for you, Calvin? Just wait.

this reminds me of a tropical fruit drink for some reason

Actually, it that were the case, Calvin would just be a carbon deposit……

If that were the case, this entire planet including every Church, the Vatican and Mecca included would be incinerated. He, who is without sin, cast the first stone. Be thankful for God’s mercy….

Read Matthew 13:24-30

Forget lightning… How was Moe never EXPELLED?

“It’s called flowers wilt, it’s called apples rot,It’s called thieves get rich and saints get shot,It’s called God don’t answer prayers a lot.Okay, now you know.”—S. Sondheim

OOF

I wish Calvin had friends like Lio does. If he did, bullies like Moe would have seconds thoughts about punching and bullying him around. Too bad Hobbes does not protect Calvin from bullies like Moe. I do not find the bullying funny.

Calvin is a sad little boy with no real friends whose parents are oblivious to his being bullied by a bigger kid who routine!y steals his lunch money. This is funny?

Fun fact: 65 years ago today, on November 5th, 1955, a boy named Marty entered Hill Valley. One week later there was a big lightning storm and Marty vanished.

No play ground teacher on duty?

That’s why we call it faith, Calvin: believing even when you can’t see the justice (and mercy) of it.

So where is the playground monitor?

Why is Moe so fixated on that one swing in the playground? is it the only one in said playground? Or did he mark it like a dog marks it’s territory…