Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 16, 2022

Good to see Calvin’s Mom preparing him early in life for disappointments.

Because you make it dillusioning, Calvin.

What’s more disillusioning, real nihilism or commercial nihilism?

Calvin also seems to have an obsession with money so it checks out.

Calvin, how musically talented are you? Who are you even going to recruit fro your band?

Now that’s what I call learning the REAL facts of life.

Give him some bucks for Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. That’s paradisiac music.

No matter what position her arms are in, the plaid lines up.

why are 4-panel Calvin and Hobbes still black and white?

Isn’t it though?

There’s also the idea that the “satan-worshiping, suicide-advocating heavy metal” was misinterpreted. Examples prior to the strip’s publication include “Night Prowler” (really about sneaking into your girlfriend’s bedroom), “Suicide Solution” (alcoholism), and “Under the Blade” (anxiety before surgery).

….Money. And the chicks, don’t forget the chicks. Money for nothing and the chicks are free….

Just vote Republican, Calvin.

Fascinating to see Mom communicating with Calvin on the boy’s superior intellectual level!!

One would expect her to be like Aunt Fritzi and just yell, “NO!!”

Childhood is disillusioning? Wait “til you get to adulthood.

Teach them reality while they’re still young. They’ll have more time to assimilate the disappointment.

Just saw Turning Red today. It also features a generation gap difference in musical understanding between parent and child. It’s the first Pixar movie with characters performing music on screen, so the “no musicals” edict didn’t last forever.

Next she’ll further disillusion him by telling him that all those growly lead metal singers are NOT the Cookie Monster…

That would be like adults who trust that the government has their best interests at heart.

Better stick with the Muzak, Calvin (https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2022/03/09?ct=v&cti=2208697)!

GWAR! GWAR!

Come on Calvin, don’t fear the reaper, Calvin take my hand, don’t fear the reaper, we’ll be able to fly…..

I don’t like metal because of its music and lyrics but I like a lot of Christian metal songs.

First time, in a while, that ’Calvin’s’ Mom spoke to him is calm, level tone !

Well, Calvin, the real life lesson is “Life along with Hell” is “other people”!

My eleven year old daughter is going Goth. Sigh

That was dark

on the topic most of the heavy metal bands flirt with the occult imagery without actually crossing over. for an exception look up the band ‘coven’ that actually was a coven of satanists. they came out at the same time as black sabbath but you can see the difference in their career arcs.

For a real laugh, check out their one hit- “One tin soldier.”

So is parenthood.

Don’t worry, there are plenty of doomsday cults that offer the real thing.

All I ever heard them advocate was to hate all authority, take drugs, have sex, piss on the wall, drive fast, and rock.

That’s quite a vocabulary for a kid who sleeps in school.

Calvin, you shock and provoke enough with snowmen in the winter – run with it.

I don’t think Calvin will do well when he encounters social media and hears the comments on politics and COVID.

Kind of like climate activists who claim the best thing for the planet would be if humanity ceased to exist. They never seem to lead by example.

And then there is always suzie

What is it that Mom needs to work at a desk

Remember, if you play the album backwards, you get whatever it is you’re expecting.

Well played, mom!

As if a child his age is going to use those words or have those thoughts. Seriously…

And yet so many “adults” have dropped so few illusions.

People will sing gloomy for cash?

Best learn that lesson early, sweetie.

Tell me about it, I am still having nightmares come the 50’s and 60’s.

It’s better to do nihilism on your own or with close friends. Commerce coopts everything.

I vividly remember the disillusionment the day my mom told me that television ads are allowed to lie, even (and especially) to children.

Calvin understands mainstream and nihilism, but he can’t add 5+7?

Just wait until you’re an adult.

That’s what I’m waiting for, a SINCERE death metal band. I guess if they were Japanese it would be seppuku.

You can’t be both a Satan-worshipper AND a nihilist; nihilists don’t believe in Satan any more than they believe in God. Say what you will about the tenets of LaVeyan Satanism, at least it’s an ethos.

Check out Wie Glauben an Nichts (“We Believe in Nothing”), by Autobahn. Or the nihilist Fleetwood Mac cover band, Wie Glauben an Nix.

Deathtongue (AKA Billy and the Boingers) of Bloom County fame have a record he should check out, U-Stink-But-I-Heart-You.

Teach your children well.

I bet Calvin would also be a big fan of Gangsta rap, much to the Mom’s dismay of course!

So if they weren’t in it for the money she would have given him the money?

Just on the news were a pair of women that were every bit as sick and twisted as anyone could be… but they weren’t found out till they found the bodies buried in the back yard….of 2 little girls that had been starved and tortured till death… but until then no one had any idea the 2 women were so truly deranged and evil…..

Slayer were never serious about it, but I think King Diamond was a true believer.

Mom is correct about such ‘entertainers’. You can’t even trust the ‘positive’ ones anymore.

Kiddo, with that kind of vocabulary you are way ahead of that bunch of jokers with the guitar. Keep us entertained for years, Bill.

Whoever sewed her shirt did a great job of matching the seams. As a seamstress, I notice these things. Matching plaids is the sign of quality workmanship.