Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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vibjyor said, 6 months ago

It is great fun to make up rules as you go along.
margueritem said, 6 months ago

Oh Hobbes, you’re in for it now!
LADYWOLF17 said, 6 months ago

I guess Hobbes took the joke a little to far this time
Yukoner said, 6 months ago

How come Mom and Dad are letting Calvin stay up this late?
Carmy said, 6 months ago

Hobbes, get out of the tree! Calvin might whack at you like a piñata.
Johanan Rakkav said, 6 months ago

Where is the comic book that Hobbes was reading?

Don’t mean to nitpick further, but either BW misdrew the phase of the moon (that one appears just before dawn, not between sunset and midnight) or else C&H live south of the equator. :) I just noticed that and thought it was funny.

Or…maybe it really IS Opposite Day and the moon’s playing along. ;)
JFri said, 6 months ago

And we ALL know how you are with pinatas, huh Carmy??
artybee said, 6 months ago

A bee-sting doesn’t hurt THAT much. A wasp or a mud-dauber or yellowjacket is something else again, much more like Calvin’s reaction.
Ivy0730 said, 6 months ago

vibjyor said,

It is great fun to make up rules as you go along.

Yeh, Hobbes is going bossy and enjoy the fun out of it!
WOLFBYTE said, 6 months ago

Um ! Hobbes you planning on staying up there all night. Where’s the comic book at by the way.
BinaryWiener said, 6 months ago

I’m trying to decipher the last panel: “No” means that come midnight when Hobbes tries to come down, Calvin might swing at him like a baseball. I hope that’s right…
watcha said, 6 months ago

The only way Hobbes can make this worse is by telling Calvin the end of Captain Napalm
Ike SCHAEF said, 6 months ago

C’mon people. Wasp/bumble-bee/hornet/honeybee- they were all “bees” when you were a kid.

“When Crying- Stung by Bee”
green_engineer said, 6 months ago

Rakkav - Nice thinking, I agree it’s Opposite Day and the moon’s playing along.

In that case, I’m going back to bed!!
Akenta said, 6 months ago

What does the phase of the moon have to do with the time of the day? It should be based on a more monthly calander. A full moon is a full moon all day long, when you get to see it in the sky depends on where you live.
GJ_Jehosaphat said, 6 months ago

I got stung by a bumble bee a few weeks ago - posted earlier - didn’t hurt as much as one previously 30 some years ago (2 stings in my memory’s lifetime). Glad it didn’t swell up like it did with my brother - he had to use a Epi-Pen & rush to Hospital for further evaluation (I drove him).

But - I enjoy the Humor of this weeks story-line!
Huhwhat said, 6 months ago

Rakkav
The moon goes through its prescribed phases on a regular cycle and can be seen in it’s phases without regard to hemisphere.
carpetinwater9 said, 6 months ago

Calvin has the flood lights on so he can bee there until 12 am. end of opposite day.
rshive said, 6 months ago

artybee – When you expect a bee sting to hurt, it will. I once got stung by a bee when I was about five. Didn’t stop crying for hours.

Guess Hobbes wins this round. Sort of.
ds133 said, 6 months ago

I love the way calvin says “yes” in the last panel, it’s priceless.
Macushlalondra said, 6 months ago

Looks like Calvin won’t be sitting down for a week! It bit him on the b-u-t-t.
Ray C said, 6 months ago

Since it’s Opposite Day, we should discuss the “Lie of the Moon.” When the moon makes the letter C in the sky (as it’s doing in panel 4), the C stands for the Latin word “crescens” meaning “to increase.” But the moon is actually in its last quarter and waning. Likewise, when the moon looks the opposite, it is like part of the letter “D” for “decrescens” or decreasing, when the moon is actually waxing toward full.
I think that the waning moon, as seen in panel 4, is visible only from midnight till dawn. So Hobbes has been in the tree for awhile (though I doubt that Bill W. gave a moment’s thought to ANY of this).
I expect you’ll all be thanking me for this knowledge.
Richard said, 6 months ago

Hobbes would visit Broomie if they were tuna pies.
Kerovan said, 6 months ago

Wilson Bob Tucker always said “Don’t let the facts stand in the wa of a good story!” This is a comic strip people. Enjoy it. Waterston isn’t trying to reflect reality here, he’s trying to entertain us and succeeding marvelously at it.
algurka said, 6 months ago

OK people, here’s the lowdown: (1) Yes, the moon is playing along on Opposite Day, (2) Calvin overreacted from a bee sting [bees do not bite!], but since when doesn’t he overreact to anything–like father, like son–remember the binoculars? and (3) the Capt Napalm comic is up in the tree with Hobbes, so Calvin wll never know how it ends, and if Hobbes tells him, can he trust him on Opposite Day (or any other day)? Thank you. Now that I’ve resolved all these issues, I’m moving to Minnesota to run as a senator.
comicgirl1000 said, 6 months ago

artybee

what is a mud-dauber ?
pibfan868 said, 6 months ago

comicgirl, a mud-dauber is a wasp, sometimes known as a paper wasp-they build cellular structured hanging nests from the underside of roof edges, or patio roofs, in trees, etc.
They are prone to being quite aggressive so it’s usually not a good idea to let them near your home.
Joe-Allen "Joe" Doty said, 6 months ago

A mud dauber looks like a wasp but it has no stinger.

I wouldn’t know what year it was drawn; but, the “6-2” in the last panel shows that it was published on June 2nd quite a few years ago.

If a “This is what really happened” comic strip ran parallel with the classic “Calvin and Hobbes” strip, you would see Calvin talking to a stuffed toy tiger. Of course, that is obvious when Calvin gets into an imaginary fight with Hobbes and Calvin’s mother or father shows up in the very next panel. When that happens, Calvin does look like he’s been in a fight; but, Hobbes just looks like he normally does when adults are around.
fizzygerry said, 6 months ago

I love it when people try to analyze cartoons and/or find flaws in them. They’re CARTOONS. Cartoons have no rules! The cartoon bee stung the cartoon boy and he flew into the air in cartoon style… end of story.
bmwk12ltc said, 6 months ago

Ray C thank you for all that knowledge. I know you were expecting the thank you and I didn’t want to disappoint you.
BC13 said, 6 months ago

Thank you Mr. Franken. This must finally be your decade.

Opposite day or not, Hobbes better not come down now that Calvin’s armed.
Rmom said, 6 months ago

Mud daubers & paper wasps are not the same. Paper wasps make nests that look like they are made out of paper. Mud daubers’ nests are made of mud. Both can sting, but the paper wasps are more aggressive than the mud daubers.
fizzygerry said, 6 months ago

oooo, white-headed stingers. they make hives in the ground. my brother and i made the mistake of standing on an entrance, once. they swarmed us, hid in our clothes and stung once we started moving again (completely unaware of the takeover). i think i may have jumped as high as Calvin that day. we had to strip down in public and run for our lives to get rid of them… never been back to that park.
fizzygerry said, 6 months ago

RayC, if Bill W. submits a cartoon with a trapezoid moon dancing with a hexagonal sun, while Calvin is being torn apart by Hobbes on a kaleidoscope bus, will you explain the latin terms to me? Thanks!
tgpLMT said, 6 months ago

Tell him how it ends, then he will be Soooooooooooooo mad that he’ll just turn and walk away.
bunnyface (bmonk) said, 6 months ago

I’m guessing tomorrow will be “Pinata Day”?

@RayC, maybe Mr. Watterson did the moon that way because of so many Hollywood movies that get the moon wrong. An easier way to remember the moon phases is “DOC”: first a D shape, seen to the East in the afternoon and evening, than O for the full moon, and finally a C shape in the morning West.
Wiseguy411 said, 6 months ago

Bmonk, what you are saying is that since there is a “C” moon it is already past Midnight and Hobbes has cleared the “dead”line.

“Yes” ???
TheSkulker said, 6 months ago
Akenta & Huhwhat: You need to be more observant when you look at the moon - Rakkav knows whereof he speaks. Obviously, the different phases of the moon are visible from anyplace on the world but the actual appearance varies greatly depending on the viewer’s location, orientation of the moon’s orbital nodes (corresponds to the season), and the specific phase.

Because the moon’s orbit is tilted about 5° to the celestial plane, the “crescents” are tilted from vertical - sometimes over 60° - depending on the season. In the northern hemisphere, the position angle of the waning crescent is tilted left (CCW) and rises in the early morning. The position angle of the waxing crescent is tilted right (CW) and sets in the early evening. In the southern hemisphere everything is reversed: the same view as if you were hanging upside down.

Get up before dawn this Sunday and look. Or go to
- http://media.skyandtelescope.com/images/Webvic09_Jul18_341px.jpg
to see what you would find. The view from Australia will be different:
- http://tinyurl.com/Australia-Moon-Pics
This site has many pictures of various phases and various tilts (seasons):
- http://www.netaxs.com/~mhmyers/moon.tn.html
For further reading:
I’m sure this is much more than you ever wanted to know about moon phases! ;-)
Stede_Bonnet said, 6 months ago

Life is all about consequences.
LX013 said, 6 months ago

It’s all right to hit Hobbes with the bat this time!
BC13 said, 6 months ago

I think we’re all learning a lot more than we bargained for about moon phases. WOW.
musicnut1986 said, 6 months ago

Yesterday minka78 said

“Schrodinger’s Bee?”

Love it! I take it you are also a fan of “The Big Bang Theory”? Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock.
bald 716 said, 6 months ago

artybee said, about 9 hours ago

A bee-sting doesn’t hurt THAT much. A wasp or a mud-dauber or yellowjacket is something else again, much more like Calvin’s reaction.

true, unless you are allergic to bee stings as my stepdaughter was, sad part though she used to play with bees in her grandmas front yard all the time
bunnyface (bmonk) said, 6 months ago

Wiseguy411 said, 43 observations ago

“Bmonk, what you are saying is that since there is a ‘C’ moon it is already past Midnight and Hobbes has cleared the ‘dead’line.”

Yes, that would follow. (Also, although it doesn’t matter, it’s only a few days to the new moon.)
Wildmustang1262 said, 6 months ago

I think Hobbes has another trick to take the pin from the pin cushion and sting that pin under Calvin’s butt. That is how Calvin jumps up the air suddenly and yells OWWWW! I know that there is no BEEEEEEE!

Carmy, I call Hobbes, the stuffed tiger piñata! LOLs!
grazer said, 6 months ago

LOL!—I find the comics far less ridiculous than many of the comments.
Coffee-Turtle said, 6 months ago

and here all this time I thought Hobbes was bluffing! :-D
ratlum said, 6 months ago

Opposite day or not Calvin is letting Hobbes get the best of this
mjw22307 said, 6 months ago

Moon-iacs.
AWESOME9802 said, 6 months ago

I mean really? Stop getting so complicated. It’s a comic. Ur supposed to enjoy it, not disect it.