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1. 

   cleokaya said, 8 months ago

   The Mickey Rooney of Pterodactyls.

2. 

   Margueritem said, 8 months ago

   Aw, it’s a cute widdle baby pterodactyl…

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   attyush said, 8 months ago

   Aww…a harmless pocket edition of a Pterodactyl.

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   johnnydoc5 said, 8 months ago

   This just isn’t a job to trust Hobbes with: why not transmogrify yourself, Calvin?

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   pouncingtiger said, 8 months ago

   Calvin wanted to be a Pterodactyl, but he nover said how big. It was assumed. And not we know what happens when you ASSUME!

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   calvindino said, 8 months ago

   I signed up after reading all these comments for the last few months, some which were educating.

   Calvin, Susie and Moe,
   Watch out! Don’t step on my toe,
   Coz that will start another row,
   And I am not your foe.

7. 

   JonD17 said, 8 months ago

   I guess the new improved version isn’t all that improved. same problem as the old one when he transed into a tiger. He was disappointed that he stayed the same size.

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   baslim_the_begger said, 8 months ago

   Calvin, you should have said GIANT pterodactyl!
   I love Hobbes expression in panel 2.

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   TheSpleen said, 8 months ago

   Have you noticed that Calvin still has chicken feet?

10. 

    susierox said, 8 months ago

    aww calvin he looks cute!
    Nice Hobbes!

11. 

    Suyash said, 8 months ago

    look at hobbes takin aim!! he’s got his tongue out n all! :D

12. 

    LX013 said, 8 months ago

    Which kind of feet does a pterodactyl have? I think chickenfeet!

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    prasrinivara said, 8 months ago

    On the nail, pouncingtiger–though he did imply the size as large by the statement “transmogrify me back when they call out the National Guard”.

    For JonD17, since you wrote about “improvement”, see my spoilers from yesterday and the day before…

14. 

    cloudcat625 said, 8 months ago

    Aw, he’s so cute. I think it would be more fun to be a chicken than a tiny pterodactyl, though.

15. 

    GuntotingLiberal said, 8 months ago

    The diet coke of evil. Just one calorie. Not evil enough.

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    bald 716 said, 8 months ago

    hobbs is looking through one eye while squinting with the other , his brain registered a smaller pterodactyl.and that is why it came out so small

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    Macushlalondra said, 8 months ago

    He had to keep you smaller than himself Calvin so he can be the boss.

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    TheInquisitor said, 8 months ago

    Why can’t he just shoot himself with it? Maybe it would transmogrify the transmogrifier along with his body into part of the new form and he’d be stuck. What if he thought of nothing when he used it?

19. 

    Leonardeuler said, 8 months ago

    I feel happy they never took the transmogrifier in production. Anyway, Calvin deserves a Nobel Prize for his invention.

20. 

    rshive said, 8 months ago

    Just a few little bugs in the transmogrifier.

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    madampresiden12 said, 8 months ago

    Now, now, everyone. One thing the TM can’t change is the age of the subject. Therefore if Calvin is a child of 6 then he will TM into a young Pterodactyl. Of course it could be that going from a small chicken to a pterodactyl made him stay smaller. I love how Hobbes is so smug “what? who? me?

22. 

    ♠Lonewolf♠ said, 8 months ago

    Ahhh, A Purse Pterodactyl, It’s all the rage!!

23. 

    EMandEM said, 7 months ago

    Hobbes wanted a toy of his own to play it. Smart moves Hobbes!

24. 

    TheSkulker said, 7 months ago

    RinaFarina, grammahotsho, Joy618, margueritem, IGoPogo2 and any other
    Pogo fans, here are some useful resources:
       
    The Complete Pogo Joins Peanuts at Fantagraphics [Feb 15, 2007 announcement]
    Pogo: The Complete Daily & Sunday Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder
    Vol 1 (of 12) wil be released “real soon now” (and at $20 per pop this will add up)
    [As of 03-27-09 It is still not available. Maybe it won’t happen after all.]
       http://www.comicbookbin.com/fantagraphicsbooks015.html
       http://www.amazon.com/Pogo-Complete-Sunday-Strips-Through/dp/1560978694
       
    Official site of Kelly Studios. It has three chapters of the G.O.Fizzickle
    book/strips online. More to come “real soon now”. They are trying to collect images of all
    published Pogo strips for the abovementioned collection.
       http://www.pogopossum.com/
       
    A huge Pogo fan site:
    http://www.igopogo.com/index.htm
       
    One hour interview with Carolyn Kelly (Walt’s daughter) August 20, 2007 on WNRJ radio
    [Lots of nostalgia interviews of the likes of Jack Benny, Ed McMahon, Jose Jimenez,
    Mel Blanc, Lucie Arnez & many more. Downloadable ZIP mp3 files.]
       http://www.timetravelispossible.com/ourradioprograms.html
       http://timetravelispossible.com/Pogo.zip
       
    Wikipedia article:
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_(comics)
     
    0834 PDT [1534z]

25. 

    Mowgli-Chiara said, 7 months ago

    A chiguagua pterodactyl!!
    ROFLOL

26. 

    unemandarine said, 7 months ago

    Oh my… Hobbes did it again…

27. 

    unemandarine said, 7 months ago

    pouncingtiger says:

    Calvin wanted to be a Pterodactyl, but he nover said how big. It was assumed. And not we know what happens when you ASSUME!

    So very true: never assume anything hahaha!!

28. 

    TheSkulker said, 7 months ago

    RinaFarina, Owlsly Whistlepig, RinaFarina, musicnut1986
     
    Need a zero-volume bottle? With its circle of singularities, an Acme Klein Bottle
    can be said to exist inside of itself – especially handy during time-reversals.
       
    Acme Klein Bottle:   http://www.kleinbottle.com/
       
    and How to fill, dry, and clean it:   http://www.kleinbottle.com/how_to_fill.htm
       
       
    And a couple of Escher’s Mobius strips:
       Moebius Strip I 1961
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW437.jpg
       Moebius Strip II 1963
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW441.jpg
     
    So if a zero volume container can be filled then the converse must also
    be true - once filled it can never be emptied. That’s what we need for
    the OTC snack table on Pibgorn! A Klein bottle full of Absinthe!!! ;-)
     
    0854 PDT [1554z]

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    TheSkulker said, 7 months ago

    M. C. Escher’s father wanted him to be an architect - and he tried. But he
    spent his summers in Sicily drawing, eventually giving up engineering for
    art. The influence of the architectural training is quite pervasive.
     
    Wikipedia article:
       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher
     
    Official M.C.Escher Website:   
       http://www.mcescher.com/
     
    Gallery:
       http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/gallery.htm
     
    Escher self portrait with Spherical Mirror:    [musicnut1986’s favorite]
       http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/ital-bmp/LW268.jpg
     
    Drawing hands 1948 Lithograph:    [BMonk’s avatar]
       http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW355.jpg
     
     
    Escher was (as was Roger Penrose), fascinated by the many ways one can “tile” a plane,
    AKA tessellation.
       Metamorphosis I 1937
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/switz-bmp/LW298.jpg
     
       Metamorphosis II 1940
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/switz-bmp/LW320E.jpg
     
       Metamorphosis III 1967-1968
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW446D.jpg
     
     
    And he also loved to play with perspective:
       Belvedere 1958 Lithograph
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW426.jpg
     
       Ascending and Descending 1960 Lithograph
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW435.jpg
     
       Waterfall 1961 Lithograph
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW439.jpg
     
       Relativity 1953 Lithograph
          http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW389.jpg
     
    These are just a few of his more well know works. Go to the web site to see lots more.
     
    0857 PDT [1557z]

30. 

    prasrinivara said, 7 months ago

    Well rshive, you do remember it’s the Beta 0.0 version?

31. 

    Cosmos said, 7 months ago

    Arghhh. Skulker virus is upon us. Back to baby pterodactyls

32. 

    grammahotsho said, 7 months ago

    Sometimes my typing is %$&*)&^%& so the t didn’t get on the end of my name which is grammahotshot. I asked my little grandson if he was my little hotshot. He giggle and say hawshaw. I’m a retired gramma who has four adult children and 9 grandchildren. I read all your posts and I have to admit that some of them fly right over my noggin.

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    prasrinivara said, 7 months ago

    As pouncingtiger stated, Calvin didn’t state what size or genus/species–there were boxcar-loads ranging broadly in size between sparrow and Folland Gnat interceptor, a fact which Calvin ought to have known given his interest in dinosaurs and contemporaneous animals.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listof_pterosaurs#Thelist

    Based on the picture, Hobbes thought of a composite between several species…well, the size is within the range I stated.

34. 

    HelmetHead said, 7 months ago

    calvindino, I don’t mean to start one, but your “row” doesn’t rhyme. “Row” as you mean it rhymes with “now,” not “toe.” (Hey, you signed up for the educating :-)

35. 

    Tabby Lynn said, 7 months ago

    lol this is great. i love it. that happy look on his face when he aims. sha. love calvins look of happness when he turns into pterdoactyl. then he relizes that he is tinny.

36. 

    SQUIDBREAKER said, 7 months ago

    Hmm, just a little basting on the bird then just try to outrun him. You won’t be able to because the bird will be too slick.

37. 

    mrprongs said, 7 months ago

    Calvin’s a Pteradacvtylus.

38. 

    Robert Peters said, 7 months ago

    Never trust a great cat with your transmogrifier.

39. 

    RinaFarina said, 7 months ago

    1) To TheSkulker: Thanx for the info about Pogo!

    2) Could we now say that Calvin is a petite p-tooie-daffodil? (Sorry, I just can’t help myself.)

40. 

    Margueritem said, 7 months ago

    Thanks, Skulker! I love Escher’s works, and would love to own one.

41. 

    Ivy0730 said, 7 months ago

    Love Hobbes in the second panel!!!<3
    And poor Calvin, how cute he is!!!
    Muah