Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 11, 2024

One of those days when Calvin makes a wise decision.

Live a little

You sometimes have to decide which is more important, winning or surviving.

Yeah, it’s never really about the destination, it’s the trip… hazard.

He who runs and fumbles away, will live to play Calvinball another day.

Cal’s practical side – safety first

Great drawing in this comic; very clean, spare, and needs no dialogue. He shows us movement in three directions. Than Calvin gets the monologue in a panel to itself.

Surviving is worth something.

Calvin has had too much experience of just going through the front door.

Except when it comes to Calvinball—there, Calvin ALWAYS wins!

Better goes back to playing Calvinball.

It’s like the adage, “If you don’t have any expectations, you’ll never be disappointed.”

Sometimes surviving IS winning.

That boy needs to toughen up a bit.

As the saying goes, discretion is the better part of valor.

It’s not how you play the game, it’s whether you win or not.

2nd Place isn’t so bad, and Far Less Pressure = Higher Quality of Life.

The best games were the ones where five minutes after it was over, nobody bothered to remember who won or what the score was.

Will Dad be happy or disappointed? Did Calvin miss a character-building opportunity?

This is why people push you around, Calvin! You’re so afraid of a little pain you cave in faster than a poorly made igloo in the middle of the Sahara Desert!

Is a Phyrric victory a real victory?

I tried doing what Calvin did once…it didn’t work.

Excellent attitude!!!!

Especially when you’re playing against a tiger, which could result in serious injury!

When one plays with a tiger, survival comes into the equation too.

I see Calvin has employed the ol’ “Distract-’em-with-the-football” trick!

Calvin, and you live another day to tell the story.

If a tiger is charging right at you trying to get the football, you give it to him. That’s why Cincinatti is always undefeated.

“Loose Ball… Tigers recover !!”

One of my buddies is 6 foot 5 inches 235 lbs and I feel like I’m Calvin’s size when he’s going full bore at me lol survival of the unfittest;)

Don’t play football with tigers.

Win or don’t, there is no try ! ;-)

Winning is nice but it’s survivors that get to keep scrapbooks.

Discretion IS the better part of survival!

Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing. – Vince Lombardi

Good advice when it comes to football, as far as I’m concerned!

Sometimes survival is preferable

ive left big nate and have now switched to calvin and hobbes

The infamous “They”.

“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game.”; said no professional sports coach or team owner, ever.