Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 17, 2023

He’ll need a bigger hat.

How does it feel, Calvin?

But will it last. . .

Calvin! What happened to your hair?!

Hobbes’ YIKES! moment in panel 4

The punch line for the Smart Pill joke…

See if it pops.

Well, he always had a fat head!!1

After the 38 years he’s been alive, I would have thought Calvin had learnt something without an ‘atomic cerberal enhance-o-tron’.

That’s one way to get ahead…..

Unfortunately, it’s not brain matter but all bone. Fortunately, Calvin can now run for the House!

Ever heard of Placebo Effect?

Looks like Calvin’s going bald!!

Now he can write his essay about the effect of colanders tied to cardboard boxes on the cerebral cortex.

If he’s so smarter, why are the other kids going to laugh at him?

Doesn’t Calvin know that intelligence comes with practice? Those neurons are alive and need growth to last.

Calvin’s forehead looks rather large! Does that mean he’s smarter? Hmm, we shall see.

Thanks to his thinking cap no one’s going to get pasta Calvin now!

Smarter AND bald!

He took off the Thinking Cap, so he must be smarter than he was when he put it on.

“smarter”, of course being a relative term…

Your dad will love your new look. Mom, not so much.

BRZAP!

Remember Calvin, aliens can’t read your mind while wearing it… bonus!

Reminds me of the episode on The Outer Limits with David MacCallum The 6th Finger.

Barry Bonds head.

this could be bad… but lets see where this goes first before we alert the press. :J

Feelings can be deceiving, Calvin.

Now if only I can remember why.

He feels smarter, but feelings can be unreliable when it comes to facts.

Now are we going to get some high brow humor?

Hahahaha

It’s like Viagra. It makes the head get…

So, Calvin “identifies” as smart.

Don’t you hate it when that happens…

Yow!!!

Looks like the colander caused some swelling there, Cal.

The placebo effect, apparently.

He thinks,therefore he am.

Careful what you think, he can read minds now

“Oh yeah. This is big brain time.”

~Markiplier

Especially around the hair.

Gwyllm Griffiths? Does he now have a sixth finger?

Might have left it on a little too long.

LOL… a future Elon Musk in the works… Love the look on Hobbes in panel 3, too.

Now Calvin just needs to style his hair like Jimmy Neutron!

If only…

And here, for the last couple of days, I’ve been wondering what Hobbes would say when this Rube Goldberg contraption failed miserably. Lesson to me: Never underestimate a genius (by whom, of course, I mean Bill Watterson).

Isn’t that just the the transmogrifier repurposed?

Whatever, the set up made by both needs a smart brain.

Calvin has been touched. By a noodly appendage.