Nah, look at the leaves. In the second panel it was already autumn.
But Winter lasts panel 3 and 4.
If the number of panels implies temporal succession, Randall’s stick figure has been sitting on the ice a long time. (Relatively. Entire seconds, based on the pacing of the frames.)
“It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be gray, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.”
“Many of the smaller dinosaurs seem to have largely preyed on housecats.”
“The sun and the moon appear the same size in the sky, even though in real life the sun is more than twice as big. Some call this lucky alignment coincidence; others say it’s proof that sometimes things can be the same size.”
Who knows how many kids (Randall among them?) learned the word “harbinger” from “Calvin and Hobbes”:
And who knows how many of those still mispronounce it to this day?
These days comets are only harbingers of doom if they happen to be on a collision course with the Earth.
Annnd here I thought this was an allusion to those newfangled satellite swarms.
For many years I thought the word was “harbringer”. You know, something that brings har. I just didn’t know exactly what har was.
This band is probably too local to be widely known, but this is where my kids learned heart-binger. “Uh, it’s, uh… It’s a German word.”
Considering the popularity of the word binge these days, I don’t think many people will mispronounce harbinger. Despite not being cognates, they are pronounced similarly.
It hadn’t even occurred to me that someone might pronounce the second syllable as “bing”.
I’ve known the word for many years, but never tried to pronounce it, partly because I had no idea how. I didn’t want to pronounce it often enough to bother finding out.
It’s pronounced “throat warbler mangrove”
I could see a hard G, like har-bin-Ger. Or silent G like Har-bing-er. Or the correct soft G = J sound: har-binj-er.
If it were harbinge, sure. But it’s harbinger. And the usual -inger sound in English rhymes with either singer or finger.
Plus I’ve heard several people say it that way.
May i counter with ginger
“Harbinger” sounds like it should mean a person from Harbin.