Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 09, 2022

Obviously, it’s the mailman who delivers the magazines.

You’d think he’d immediately be suspicious of Moe.

I love Hobbes’ eye roll in the third panel.

Subtle bit of foreshadowing there.

Hobbes? Dad?

Mystery solved. Hobbes he’s gonna kill you when he figures it out.

Calvin always finds interesting ways to entertain himself.

Yup! A mastermind named booger-brain!

Well, I guess Mom’s off the hook…

Hobbes’s face in the third panel is absolutely priceless.

Maybe she’ll hide and then watch a stuffed animal use scissors on her magazine and then freak out, because stuffed animals don’t use scissors.

I’ve long wondered if Calvin didn’t perhaps suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)…

HOW COULD YOU, MOM!

Putting Snoopy’s cat hatred aside, can you imagine if he and Hobbes were in cahoots? Calvin would be doubting his sanity every morning when he’d find that his football was moved… by the Mad Punter!

Hobbes trying to look innocent in the 3rd panel. Mind you, you need to be doing something while Calvin is at school all day……

Tyler Durden

Aah the plot thickens!

OK, so it’s Calvin who’s been sending himself messages!!

Now, will this d@mned arc end??

If this were a movie, Calvin’s alternate personality would later be dressed in a tiger outfit as an adult and Hitchcock would be directing.

Calvin is his own worst nightmare!

It can’t be Hobbes because cats don’t have opposable thumbs so they can’t use scissors.

Drama….and the suspicions begin….

In answer to your last question in the second panel…you keep acting the way you are and you just might!

Oh boy ! This gets deeper !

Ahhh, the cat’s out of the bag.

Good twist, I thought it was Susie (although I saw this when originally in the newspapers, just don’t remember it).

Doubt Dad would do this, even though he might get a laugh from it. Mom obviously didn’t. That leaves Hobbs. Or Cal does it in his sleep.

Awww… I was betting on Suzy!

The plot thickens

Oops! Not everything. Looks like Mom found some crucial evidence!

This actually means Calvin is doing it to himself.

Well, they say “Keep your enemy’s closer.” It appears that Calvins “enemy” is pretty close indeed.

uhoh

Oh mom, Really?. How long have you been living with Calvin? You shouldn’t even have to ask such a question.

Possibly, DAD ????

Calvin – Jussie

When Hobbes is not with Calvin, he’s just a stuffed toy. Therefore, it must be Calvin who is cutting up Mom’s magazine. QED.

Examine the edges of the removed sections for claw marks…

It would have been really funny if the sender was Dad.

Early signs of schizophrenia…

dun dun DUN! And the plot thickens!

Given Hobbes look in the third panel and Calvin’s mom’s ripped up magazine, it’s probably Hobbes.

Coupons.

“It’s gotta be that schizo, Nivlac…”

i have read this arc several times,but it never gets old

Either Calvin goes on anti-depressants or Mom gets a Kindle

Hmmm. Yes, who?

When the mom talks to Calvin about the mutilated magazine the cat will be out of the bag.

Is Hobbes stealing Mom’s stamps?

oh, oh.. I thought it was Susie all the time. Calvin is becoming Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Look at the expression on Hobbes’, we all know Hobbes is Calvin’s alter ego. This kid needs to be watched.

Calvin is a funny, loveable character, but does no one care that he has Multiple Personality Disorder?

I’m telling you, Chuck Palahniuk read this arc as a kid and thought “I can turn this into a book!”

Hobbes, don’t look so hypocritical!

Oooh, look at Hobbes in the third panel. Foreshadowing!

Hobbes obviously is a shapeshifter. He is real yet can shift into a harmless stuffed tiger in front of everyone not named Calvin. But there are clues . . .

Calvin strikes again!!!

Who? Really?!! Think Mom, think…

Ok this is one of the key pieces of evidence pointing to the fact that Hobbes is real. Mom didn’t cut up the paper. Calvin didn’t do it. Unlikely Dad did it. That points to the undeniable fact that Hobbes (in a real use of scissors) did it. Besides — look at his expression

It’s Hobbes! Or Calvin’s dad.

More evidence that Hobbes is independent of Calvin’s imagination

Could Calvin have a split personality disorder?

The multiple personality disorder is going big time now.