Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 10, 2021

Very good Godzilla — didn’t look like he was dressed in a rubber costume.

Next time: KING KONG!

Calvin…..you’re such a monster.

If Susie were playing, then she’d be the 15¼-meter woman.

Will Olympics complete the damage?

Gesundheit!

Encore, my dear lad, encore indeed!

I spent hours in my sandbox. Back then I had all the Major Matt Mason stuff plus the Colorforms Outer Space men. They were mortal enemies. My sandbox was in a constant state of interplanetary war.

Calvin is such a joyful little psychopath.

Or COVID, sadly.

At least when he does things like this, he fulfills his destructive fantasies without hurting anyone or damaging anything.;/

Calvin probably wishes he could obliterate that school bully of his just as easily as his trashing of downtown Tokyo.

Sand in the neck and everywhere!!

Calvin is multi-talented: Frame 1-Architect, Frame 2-Tourist Guide, Frame 3-Godzilla, Frame 4-Journalist…..

Oh no there goes Tokyo, Go Go Godzilla !!!!

Yep ! ! ! That’s ‘Calvin’ ! ! ! ! !

Time for some Godzilla music.

Now let Hobbes have a turn. Catzilla? Kitty Kong?

Calvin: the anti-Anakin Skywalker!

Nowadays, kids scream out names of Pokemon characters with the same effects.

Calzilla!!

A young Antifa member.

He’s a natural!

At least he didn’t nuke it.

Rats! I was hoping he’d be a US bomber from WWII.

Time and effort are rarely wasted when they result in satisfaction. Even if it’s "Godzilla"’ing the results.

Calzilla!

Somewhere in the tower are some ants with a camera; one of them is saying, “This is really the end – Goodbye, everyone, goodbye!”

I can just imagine what he’d do with Hiroshima.

Today Tokyo is in danger of being terrorized by a lockdown, rather than a knockdown.

I don’t know of all of the Godzilla movies, but I would bet that in more of them than not, Godzilla is the good guy…

And I thought Lio had issues…

In have an eight-year-old nephew who is into Godzilla, and he would love this one.

But sadly a huge cannon ball is fired at Godzilla, so Godzilla dies.

“He’s got to go!”

Years ago a psychologist, I believe in Sweden, set out to prove that all gender differences in play were simply social constructs; that essentially there is no difference between boys and girls. (A huge assumption underlying much of today’s social engineering, BTW.)

What he found was that boys’ and girls’ play was very different, and he established it was NOT social construct. What characterized the play of boys was exactly what Calvin illustrates: boys will very carefully and even cooperatively build complex constructs — only for the purpose of destroying them when complete. The attestation of boys’ having played there was the existence of ruins.

History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man.

Calvin’s action, for time being, matching his age. Normally he does things way beyond his age.

Funny to read this immediately after today’s “Dog Eat Doug.”

And thus it begins… Today, Tokyo, tomorrow, Snow Goons that can fight back! Where, oh where will it end? (Sadly, on a snowy mountain slope, and far, far too soon! At least we were left the happy thought that their adventures would continue, even if we weren’t going to see them.)

A typical boy. Now an endangered species.

Calvinzilla!