Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 02, 2012

Pain is only felt in the present, chum.

How come 8:30 Calvin doesn’t already know this didn’t work?

Repercussions.

This thing is getting really complicated…

Sorry I missed yesterday’s comments on Susan’s comment that she would go back and kill Hitler. I would too, if I could go back. Then a lot of my relatives (and probably Susan’s) would have survived.

If 7:30 Calvin get’s pounded, then he’ll be too incapacitated to write the paper.

Two against one, I call that bullying!

This arc will become required reading for time travellers. I mean, has become. Future past tense.As the man says, tomorrow is your future yesterday.

Do time travel machines ever have head-on collisions? 6:30 Calvin is lucky he crash into himself coming back from 8:30.

This was confusing enough when Calvin was nothing but a lazy two-timer. Now he’s a three-timer.

Click here: Peanuts (February 18, 1983)

Anyone seen Dogsniff?

@frugalnotcheap: Fortunately, Dogsniff is still alive and well and unblocked. He was over at Non Sequitur this morning.My impression is that he comments less at Calvin and Hobbes when there is a long series like this one that goes for multiple weeks. It’s harder to come up with original comments or jokes every day when the theme is the same day after day.

Thanks, Susan.Clickus Hereus: Calvinus et HobbesusSorry; I don’t know much Spanish, so I had to use Latin. But the two are closely related. As are the three Calvins in today’s strip.

I know……… I know……….. I just couldn’t remember the Latin phrase for “Click here using your computer mouse.”

Tres hombres didn’t do the homework. It’s a threepete……

Calvin is 8, or close to it…his logic is what makes sense to him right now. And not doing homework is a daily goal. Been there.

You can’t actually leave the past and meet yourself in the future. You are gone. You haven’t been around since you left. It would be as if you disappeared (’cause you did).

Try calling off of work on Monday. Then, during the day, go to the office and try to meet yourself for lunch. I would bet you’ll be one self shy.

@The Doctor: So, it sounds like you are suggesting that with time travel, there is no such thing as a free lunch.How about if Calvin meets himself in the future, but then returns to the past and resumes where he left off? It seems like that could work. I think that’s the assumption behind this story, because last Saturday Calvin said, “We’ll be back as soon as we go.”

What does the “Hey” in the last panel refer to? Something in the future, perhaps? Or something in the present that we cannot see?

@Lovecraft: The “Hey” is just the future Calvin realizing the truth of what the 7:30 Calvin on the right has just said. It does sort of look like he is reacting to something outside the panel, but that’s just because Bill Watterson had to turn him to face the audience, so that we could see the look of suprise on his face.

@Dogsniff: I was just searching for you, and I saw that the comments over there were very funny today, so I thought I would add a non sequitur.We know that the Mayan prophecy is not true, because it is already a fact that Calvin and Hobbes will continue for another three years until Bill Watterson’s retirement. We know the future, because we have already visited the past.

@The Doctor: Okay…….. let’s see…….. maybe the 8:30 Calvin remembers the events, but he is pretending to be shocked anyway, so that he doesn’t mess with the 6:30 Calvin’s mind, since then he would be messing with his own mind for the future, and…………

I am not certain Calvin would be worried about getting stuck in a causality loop, whether or not it was recursive. He is already messing with the timestream by visiting the future, so his future self almost certainly wouldn’t care about messing up the past, right?

I think The Doctor is right! Otherwise, there would be a Calvin for every instant in time, which theoretically could result in an “infinite” number of Calvins running rampant, unless Watterson limited the number of Calvins to one every half hour, which would be arbitrary (or literary license) on his part..

@The Doctor: Hmmm………. Maybe 6:30 Calvin hasn’t yet administered the potion to 8:30 Calvin that makes him forget this whole encounter?

@Puddleglum2: Not to mention that this entire sequence is an infinite loop, which repeats itself at least once every ten years.Perhaps we will all be making the exact same comments here ten years from now.More later. Gotta go meet myself for lunch……..

I’ve met myself on a few occasions, but I almost didn’t recognize myself……

The chances of an apocalyptic Calvin-Mageddon becomes exponentially greater with each incarnation of the boy. The after effects of such a disaster for the entire world will be chaotic…but still very funny!

That did it for me. Non Sequitur here I come. They’re wierd too, but they’re supposed to be wierd.

@ baby66boy1 – I’ve checked “Heavenly Nostrils” on several occasions and, while it’s an interesting strip, I don’t see it ever replacing Calvin and Hobbs. Dana’s a good cartoonist but no Bill Watterson I’m afraid.

Two’s Company, Three’s a Disaster

LOL xxx

Aww you both should quit fighting. I think both Heavenly Nostrils and Calvin and Hobbes are great strips in their own way!

Its simple ,where is Susie shes the only one that can save us.

@The Doctor: I’m still confused about this sequence with the three Calvins, because I wasn’t there. I was with the other Hobbes at the time.

@cookies333: Glad you like the Peanuts strip. Charles Schulz drew some hilarious physical comedy in his earlier years, but this is one of his later examples.

@Hobbs & @The DoctorWhen we learn how to time travel then we will understand why this all can happen as it’s shown.Or when we understand the events we will learn time travel?

Let’s hope that the writing assignment is due on the twelveth of never….

@GretchensMom: Yes, a very rare “Peanuts” moment. Here is the one that came after:Click here: Peanuts (February 19, 1983)

I’m confusing many Calvin…..

Hi @Dha Dha. Did you used to be Phapada from Thailand? You have the same avatar.

Future Calvin doesn’t know the result of this because this loop hasn’t played itself out to a conclusion.

One can only hope.

Remember the two Hobbeses are “alone” to dream up their own version of a story (which will have to do with the time-travel—and the joke will be on Calvin)

Hey! Problem!!!

Time traveling a dangerous thing

Yet you come up with such clever responses!

funny how clavin says that his future self will be the one hurts :)