Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 10, 2023

All grown up now. Still doesn’t make sense.

You mean “If” you grow up, Calvin? But seriously, R.I.P bird.

Calvin I’m in my 30s… it never makes sense.

No hurry, Calvin

At first, I thought from seeing that realistic drawing of a bird, that this was the one where Calvin is a songbird singing, “On Top of Spaghetti”.

The “Bring Out Your Dead” scene from Monty Python and The Holy Grail suddenly popped into my mind. LOL.

One of my favorites. Glad to see it again.

These philosophical ones are part of what makes Calvin & Hobbes so incredibly wonderful.

When you’re the grown up, it’s your job to clean such things up.

In my city, if you see a dead bird it’s usually July or August, and the bird died of heat exhaustion.

❤️

Very serious and solemn strip today, with no humorous “punchline”. Looks like Calvin already has character.

Watterson really put some detail into that bird, I wonder if it’s based on one he found and sketched?

Bad news, Calvin. I’m past 60 and it still doesn’t make sense.

This is another strip which shows Calvin at his most mature. As I mentioned in my reply to DaveG1960, Watterson has explained that it was inspired by a dead bird that he found. The week-long Baby Racoon story arc had been inspired by a dead kitten that his wife had found. Calvin and his Mom reflected Watterson and his wife in that story arc. Another classic moment in which Calvin shows his mature side is in the story arc where Mom was ill. Calvin tried to comfort her and said, at one point, “It’s kinda hard being a Mom to a Mom.” I had that feeling whenever my own mother was ill.

Few of us are pondering the philosophy implications of a dead bird while eating chicken.

Don’t rush your childhood Calvin, enjoy it. Being an adult has more problems than being a child.

Thank you, Bill Watterson

Love that final panel…just two friends who have each other…

If everytone/everything lived forever, we would never have been born. Best I can do….

He broke the 4th wall

Nature IS ruthless. That’s why it makes no sense to provide nature with the elements so it can be even more so. We know eventually the death toll from intensified hurricanes, typhoons, tornados, rising sea levels and the forest fires will force us to take action, so why wait? You think banking on 45 to come to our rescue makes any sense? Let’s elect some folks who are serious about working together, regardless of what labels get tossed around. (Sorry about the rant).

One of the all-time great C&H Sunday strips.

While culling weeds I found a rufous-sided eastern towhee male laying next to house foundation. Very sad, as that is a very rarely seen species near our feeders and pots. Not a mark on him. We have hawks but no sign of that. No nearby kids with bb spitters. Might have hit nearby window too hard but couldn’t tell. Just sad to lose even one.

Awww! Words to ponder. But tomorrow we plunder!

That will be a depressing brain worm for the rest of the day…

They call it poetic justice. I don’t understand it either.

“There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—thereadiness is all.” – Shakespeare

Life is a series of heavy sighs.

Your expectations get adjusted as you grow older, Calvin.

Just ordered a bunch of stick-ons for my windows to keep birds from doing this.

you can’t anthropomorphize nature. It is what it is.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,

Li’l bit of doubt, Hobbes.

i’m in my 60’s… it does make sense but at a cost.

If we could remember those wonderful insights we get in quiet moments, the world would be a kinder place.

Death is the end of this mortal existence, but there is so much work to do avoiding it, that it really isn’t worth thinking about until you have to. Sort of like the start of school.

It’s not suppose to make sense. It’s just part of human nature to look for patterns and meaning whether they are true or not. Thats how we survived as a species,

Is this the best ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ strip of them all? I feel it may be.

To a bird, life ends where pane glass windows begin

Unfortunately, when most people “grow up”, they just stop having thoughts like these.

Brilliant!

Sadly, it never does.

Ahhhh… the innocence of youth.

A bird has only two Legs. This bird has four ones. And under the colourful bird is a black one! I don’t really understand this!

Sunday morning sermon in the Church of Calvin. As a Calvanist I say Amen…

Might be a refusal to accept life for what it is.

If only

All I gotta say to that

If only

Definitely one of their best strips. I love that photorealistic dead bird sketch in the first panel. I definitely thought of this strip a couple times I was working at Walmart and I had to dispose of a dead sparrow that most likely hit the doors. (Sparrows were always getting in and out of the store.)

I am not used to Calvin being so sweet and introspective. Thanks.

Shouldn’t Hobbes be saying something like “Nasty, brutish, and short?”

I’m 65 years old, and it still doesn’t make sense to me.

Interesting. This was drawn some 26 years before Olaf sang “This will all make sense when I am older” in Frozen II. (“When I Am Older” Josh Gad as Olaf).

Some things never change. (Also a song from Frozen II performed by the cast.)

Nope. Never does, and I’ll never see 70 again. You do learn to live with it, and appreciate the good parts while trying not to dwell too much on the not-so-good.

A deep, thought-provoking comic today. Thank you, Mr. Watterson.

I was really expecting in the last panel for him to go decide to poke it with a stick

Even after so many years and so many reruns, this comic still one of the best of the best that runs today!

Calvin really has a sensitive mature side after all and feels empathy. Very touching.

This one installment speaks volumes. Watterson was a genius…

Never mind, It will never make sense even if you grow up buddy. Enjoy your sunny day under the tree shade with your comrade, Hobbes.

And then Hobbes goes back to eat the bird…

One of the greatest strips in history. I hope Watterson won a Pulitzer Prize at some point. If not a Nobel!