Spectralized. A very seldom used word. People should start using it more often. So that it can be added to the dictionary. Like for example, Ex president Trump spectralized a couple months ago, now if only Covid-19 would spectralize as well.
This has nothing to do with this strip or storyline. But if any of you remember the Sunday strip where Calvin gets out of bed to start his day, only to be out the door on his way to school and heard his mother wake him up for school and it turned out he dreamed all of that? I just had a similar experience with my dreams last night. Trippy.
Some of my comments during this wonderful story arc have been on the real goodness within Calvin and on the questions about reality inside this strip.
When I began reading it in 1987, I naturally assumed that it was about a bratty kid imaging that his toy tiger was real. In one of the earliest Sunday strips that I read, I was introduced to Calvin’s good side when he picked up a tin can that someone had dropped and complained to Hobbes, “Now I have to carry this because someone was too lazy to do so!” This showed me that Calvin has a caring side and can set a good example. I think we saw more of his good side there than anywhere in this current story arc where Calvin’s “good side” seemed more concerned about impressing people.
I began to question whether Hobbes was imaginary in 1988 when I noticed that he is sometimes shown doing things when Hobbes isn’t present and – as I have said several times – I finally learned that Bill Watterson doesn’t see Hobbes as imaginary in 1992.
At least two readers have told me that Bill Watterson saying that he doesn’t see Hobbes as imaginary but doesn’t allow anyone but Calvin to see Hobbes as alive is self-contradictory.
I think Bill Watterson’s point is that he characterises Hobbes as being a real character that he can believe in himself rather than as someone that Hobbes can imagine. He has also explained that Calvin is largely based on his own immature side yet he used his mature side to make Hobbes more mature and knowledgeable than Calvin yet still someone who can be a good friend to Calvin.
I would have liked to see how other characters reacted to this alternative Calvin. We saw how Mom reacted but not Dad who is usually more cynical about Calvin than Mom is. I would also have liked to see how Moe and Calvin’s duplicate reacted to one another. Best of all, I would have liked to see how Rosalyn reacted to this version of Calvin.
On the plus side, I enjoyed seeing how Mom, Miss Wormwood and Susie all reacted with Susie being far more hostile than Mom whereas Miss Wormwood was the only character who seemed to be pleased.
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
Back to parent-teacher meetings for Mom.
Foxtrot snowday ('Sup Roblox peeps) over 3 years ago
Calvin is in trouble for school but his social life is better.
ImDaRealAni over 3 years ago
We’ll have to see how his Mom reacts when she sees how Calvin looks now.
codycab over 3 years ago
Translation in the last panel: At least I can stop being nice now.
jagedlo over 3 years ago
Excellent observation, Hobbes!
Guilty Bystander over 3 years ago
Nobody is all-Yin or all-Yang. At least a little of both resides in all of us.
Johnny Q Premium Member over 3 years ago
I think the point where Bill Watterson took a year-long break from the strip is coming up…
GreggW Premium Member over 3 years ago
From psychopathy to sociopathy?
Imagine over 3 years ago
Hobbes doing Spock: “Fascinating”.
dcdete. over 3 years ago
Spectralized. A very seldom used word. People should start using it more often. So that it can be added to the dictionary. Like for example, Ex president Trump spectralized a couple months ago, now if only Covid-19 would spectralize as well.
djtenltd over 3 years ago
Ahh. Back to normal. :(
BigDaveGlass over 3 years ago
Hobbes, as always gets it spot on, and as always it goes over our hero’s head…..
bluram over 3 years ago
Oh my! The life of a six year old can be very confusing.
Susan00100 over 3 years ago
“Calvin and Susie, sitting up a tree… K-I-S-S-I-N-G…”
MayCauseBurns over 3 years ago
Calvin is now eligible to open a Twittler account!
bignatefantic21 over 3 years ago
Hobbes is right, now that calvin’s good side no longer physically exists, calvin has to go back to doing his homework and chores himself again
Troglodyte over 3 years ago
Well, Calvin has always been up to no good!
jrankin1959 over 3 years ago
Give it 15 years, and Calvin’s bad side will have perished from exhaustion and the good side will marry Suzie…
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago
A conscience is a terrible thing to waste. …unless you have a sheet of plastic.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 3 years ago
Live and don’t learn. That’s Calvin.
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 3 years ago
This has nothing to do with this strip or storyline. But if any of you remember the Sunday strip where Calvin gets out of bed to start his day, only to be out the door on his way to school and heard his mother wake him up for school and it turned out he dreamed all of that? I just had a similar experience with my dreams last night. Trippy.
Calvinist1966 over 3 years ago
Some of my comments during this wonderful story arc have been on the real goodness within Calvin and on the questions about reality inside this strip.
When I began reading it in 1987, I naturally assumed that it was about a bratty kid imaging that his toy tiger was real. In one of the earliest Sunday strips that I read, I was introduced to Calvin’s good side when he picked up a tin can that someone had dropped and complained to Hobbes, “Now I have to carry this because someone was too lazy to do so!” This showed me that Calvin has a caring side and can set a good example. I think we saw more of his good side there than anywhere in this current story arc where Calvin’s “good side” seemed more concerned about impressing people.
I began to question whether Hobbes was imaginary in 1988 when I noticed that he is sometimes shown doing things when Hobbes isn’t present and – as I have said several times – I finally learned that Bill Watterson doesn’t see Hobbes as imaginary in 1992.
christelisbetty over 3 years ago
I understand,seems like my bad side wins too often.
Calvinist1966 over 3 years ago
At least two readers have told me that Bill Watterson saying that he doesn’t see Hobbes as imaginary but doesn’t allow anyone but Calvin to see Hobbes as alive is self-contradictory.
I think Bill Watterson’s point is that he characterises Hobbes as being a real character that he can believe in himself rather than as someone that Hobbes can imagine. He has also explained that Calvin is largely based on his own immature side yet he used his mature side to make Hobbes more mature and knowledgeable than Calvin yet still someone who can be a good friend to Calvin.
Calvinist1966 over 3 years ago
I would have liked to see how other characters reacted to this alternative Calvin. We saw how Mom reacted but not Dad who is usually more cynical about Calvin than Mom is. I would also have liked to see how Moe and Calvin’s duplicate reacted to one another. Best of all, I would have liked to see how Rosalyn reacted to this version of Calvin.
On the plus side, I enjoyed seeing how Mom, Miss Wormwood and Susie all reacted with Susie being far more hostile than Mom whereas Miss Wormwood was the only character who seemed to be pleased.
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
“Spectralized?” I couldn’t find it in the dictionary so I just learned a new word from a 6-year old?
BiggerNate91 over 3 years ago
“You’re the only person I know whose good side is prone to badness” is one of my favourite quotes from this comic
DanWolfie over 3 years ago
Love how intelligent Calvin’s dialogue in the second panel is.
PC200X over 3 years ago
You know, as much as I love Calvin and Hobbes, sometimes it just makes my brain hurt.
Santaanacanyon1 over 3 years ago
Am I reading Calvin…or Young Sheldon?
locake over 3 years ago
Even the Pope would throttle this kid.
cookie forky over 3 years ago
not home work
cookie forky over 3 years ago
please mom
Jaime Jean M over 3 years ago
Throttled? Spectralized? Not being a native English speaker, I’m amazed I can get such a developed vocabulary from a 6-year-old.
Giant walrus 6 months ago
He didn’t evaporate, he “poofed”