When I was 6 or younger, I became obsessed with why I existed and how I came to be. I didn’t have the vocabulary Calvin has, so I stumbled to ask my mother about it several times. She thought I was asking about how she came to have me (biology/sex) and struggled to find words to explain that to a 5-6 year old. I bet a lot of young kids had deep questions they just couldn’t express.
At least the Mom didn’t yell at Calvin, despite being annoyed from being woken up in the middle of the night for nothing as usual. Though I’m sure after the third panel, she just said “Now go back to sleep. It’s after midnight.”
When our youngest daughter had a teenaged daughter of her own, she asked, “Mom, how come I’m still alive?” My wife answered, “Dear, you were very fortunate. Your father and I never both wanted to kill you at the same time.”
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
There’s nothing like a mother’s love.
The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover over 1 year ago
Must’ve been a last minute homework question.
codycab over 1 year ago
Since when does Calvin care about love?
Alexander the Good Enough over 1 year ago
Deep. Very deep, especially for ANY 6-year-old.
Yngvar Følling over 1 year ago
This seems a lot like Bloom County’s Brinkley and all his midnight anxieties.
Johnny Q Premium Member over 1 year ago
That, and the law…
in.amongst over 1 year ago
yup that age in a kids life when mom goes from being reassuring to reassuringly threatening. Wait a few years and slippers might fly…
eced52 over 1 year ago
Sleep with one eye open from now until you go to college.
Imagine over 1 year ago
Ah, puberty.
BigDaveGlass over 1 year ago
I wonder why…….
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
No, but lust is. ;)
jagedlo over 1 year ago
Wait until you have a kid and find out why your mom answered the way she did!
Skippy the Magnificent over 1 year ago
That’s lust. Love is a gift.
tremaine53 over 1 year ago
There are better times for questions like that than midnight.
VegaAlopex over 1 year ago
I should have do that to my mean grandmother. She wouldn’t have know what I was saying.
Judy Hendrickson [Unnamed Reader - 852856] over 1 year ago
Sooo shut up !!!!
mckeonfuneralhomebx over 1 year ago
Biochemical reaction and genes… from a 6 year old at midnight? At 2 am is his head going to spin?
sandpiper over 1 year ago
Talk about skating on thin ice . . . he’s lucky he’s getting thin air.
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Calvin’s mind never stops thinking…oy
Ron Nacker over 1 year ago
So where is Hobbes he should be calming your fears.
Will_Scarlet over 1 year ago
Actually, you SHOULD find that reassuring…
hk Premium Member over 1 year ago
That is what I tell my two dogs, both Schorkies: “Good thing you are cute…”
Wesley Premium Member over 1 year ago
Sometimes Calvin is so cynical he gets an adrenaline rush.
ChessPirate over 1 year ago
Mom, Dad, Susie, Moe, Hobbes, Rosalyn, Mrs. Wormwood, Space Aliens… Everyone wants to kill Calvin… ☺
Oarsman over 1 year ago
He must have read Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene
The Wolf In Your Midst over 1 year ago
Yes, but good luck getting anyone to buy a Valentine’s Day card that admits it.
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
If life’s BIG questions wake you up in the night, write them down .
g04922 over 1 year ago
hmm… Calvin must entering early puberty.
chromosome Premium Member over 1 year ago
When I was 6 or younger, I became obsessed with why I existed and how I came to be. I didn’t have the vocabulary Calvin has, so I stumbled to ask my mother about it several times. She thought I was asking about how she came to have me (biology/sex) and struggled to find words to explain that to a 5-6 year old. I bet a lot of young kids had deep questions they just couldn’t express.
wiley207 over 1 year ago
At least the Mom didn’t yell at Calvin, despite being annoyed from being woken up in the middle of the night for nothing as usual. Though I’m sure after the third panel, she just said “Now go back to sleep. It’s after midnight.”
ganeydn over 1 year ago
Panel 3 is her long round way of saying yes.
kathleenhicks62 over 1 year ago
Now she thinks he should have been strangled at birth.
locake over 1 year ago
We know why Calvin never gets older than 6.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 1 year ago
I think Calvin is right-on.
ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago
Rest assured, Calvin, it’s all in the genes!
Zykoic over 1 year ago
That’s funny!
txmystic over 1 year ago
Panel 3 always makes me LOL
djtenltd over 1 year ago
It’s a wonder why Calvin isn’t sleeping on part of the roof!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 1 year ago
Wow a budding Rick Sanchez. [The Adventures of Rick & Morty.]
Ukko wilko over 1 year ago
When our youngest daughter had a teenaged daughter of her own, she asked, “Mom, how come I’m still alive?” My wife answered, “Dear, you were very fortunate. Your father and I never both wanted to kill you at the same time.”
The Pro from Dover over 1 year ago
It’s my midnight reassurance!