Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 10, 2009

it all depends on one’s point of view…

Calvin you might want to think that through. To the alien you are the weirdo, and if I were you I’d get going before the alien parents come.

Ordinary earthlings? That’s a good one!!

guess the alien is a visitor, too… with its space wagon and a little stuffed mini alien buddy :o)

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I just read yesterday’s cartoon. The martian looks like the ones on The Muppet Show and Sesame Street. They were checking out objects on earth and tried to figure out how to communicate. They had a book and usually thought everything was a chicken and they’d all agree and say, “Yup, Yup, Yup, Yup, Yup, Chicken.” They’d then make clucking sounds. I remember they got it right one time and were so pleased clucking back and forth with the chicken. It made me laugh everytime!

Calvin, you’re kind of a weirdo alien to your fellow Earthlings, let alone to anyone else.

Interplanetary ethnocentrism

Margueritem said, about 5 hours ago

it all depends on one’s point of view…

You beat me to the comment! But it is true, it all depends on the point of view.

hey kiddie, they are just “marslings” and you are weirdos…so attack on them!!!

Calvin has condensed the reason for the entire human, race, religion, geographical, ethnic, language and culture derived strife and suffering in the last panel..

Even Aliens and Humans are united in their Fear of the Unknown..

In the end, Hobbs is honest and Calvin one who discriminates. In the end, Calvin grows up and discards Hobbs [honesty] and continues on discriminating his way though life. And so do we all, without exception. Oh c’mon now, be honest. You do too.

But some of us then turn around and start learning how not to discriminate. save between good and evil (which we have to do whether some of us like it or not).

Wow, it’s just like that movie “Planet 51”, except funny.

The little martian probably has a bandersnatch doll that only he can converse with…

I wonder what the weirdo from another planet thinks of the plain ordinary human and his plain ordinary stuffed tiger.

Hey Calvin he’s not the weirdo from another planet, you are. You’re on his planet, he’s not on yours.

maybe the “martian” went to get them some mars food, after all they were not prepared very well for this trip

Calvin and Hobbes are UFOs (Ugly Foreign Objects) in the Martian’s eyes….however many eyes that might be.

Calvin is definitely not an “ordinary earthling”…

If he was, he would have killed the alien, raped it’s woman, massacred, infected or imprisoned all it’s relatives and then despoiled it’s lands with filth and thoughtless consumption.

It’s what we do. (At least until Star Fleet implements the “Prime Directive” but that’s still many years off.)

I’m proud that Earth is represented by such fine solar citizens.

Snicker “We’re just ordinary Earthlings..” Guffaw

Yeah Calvin, what is an alien creature doing on your new planet?

Stede, you left out enslaved.

There are definitely weirdos living on different planets, right here on this one.

Time for Mom to call Calvin for super

calvin!!! you remember martian had tentacles. i fear he is entangled on your back. ask hobbes to check your t-shirt.

Remember that Joe Walsh song “Ordinary Average Guy”? I think that song may apply.

The cgi cartoon Battle For Terra covered some of the same themes.

right now i am reading the calvin and hobbes strips on this website, and ten of my comic book of it

it was my dads dad who got my dad addicted to it and he got me addicted to it

and if i grow up and get married i might do the same to my son

Actually: You are the alien around there.

It is like an American going to Europe and complain about all the foreigners over there.