Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Margueritem said, 2 months ago

if only we could rerun the parts we liked the best…
Yukoner said, 2 months ago

Calvin is falling for Susie.
Yukoner said, 2 months ago

That’s a forward somersault with a full twist. Judges ought to give that at least a 8.9
kajunklown said, 2 months ago

ahhh!!!! memories!
Carmy said, 2 months ago

Susie? What about Hobbes?
wndrwrthg said, 2 months ago

I think he’ll do “three somersaults and a splat”.
Ronshua said, 2 months ago

Doesn’t Calvin get the short end of the stick playing Slushball with Hobbes ?
vibjyor said, 2 months ago

His life is already flashing before his eyes.
WoodEye said, 2 months ago

This is taking as long as a story line in Judge Parker!
LX013 said, 2 months ago

It’s a very long fall!
Ivy0730 said, 2 months ago

@Calvin: You wish!

Susie is the first one came up in his mind right now, maybe Hobbes is the next?
wcorvi said, 2 months ago

Don’t worry, folks, he’ll be ‘safe’.
Johanan Rakkav said, 2 months ago

He’s falling to his death and all he can think of is the harm he’s done to someone who started out liking him.

Hm, maybe letting this immature little ENFP become a mat on the tarmac isn’t such a bad idea after all.
Dino-1 said, 2 months ago

I used to have a reoccuring dream where I was taking a walk and came upon a tall stone wall on a high cliff. Without hesitation I’d step up on the wall to look over it but I’d lose my balance and fall for a long time. I’d wake crying and sweating and I guess yelling sometimes because my Mom would rush in to see if I was alright. I had this dream for many years and became scared of heights because of it. When I went to college it was like deja vu. They had a huge stone wall exactly the same as in my dream. It went around the school with a stone walkway on a huge hill or small mountain overlooking the town. One day I got up the nerve to climb up on the top of the wall to look down. The view was gorgeous and I overcame my fear of heights that day and never had the dream again!
Leonardeuler said, 2 months ago

Yukonner, I bet Calvin would get a 9.3.
watcha said, 2 months ago

Yukonner and Leonardeuler - you are both wrong, it all depends on the landing!
iKomix said, 2 months ago

Calvin’s 6? RIP , Calvin. Again.
hagarthehorrible said, 2 months ago

Calvin, you gotta think something else apart from smacking Susie at this stage of life. Whatever happened to Hobbes??
carpetinwater9 said, 2 months ago

What a trooper.
unemandarine said, 2 months ago

Yes the landing is very important to the judges, so lets wait and see…
Lewreader said, 2 months ago

I see a female takes precedence over his best friend
BC13 said, 2 months ago

Nothing like reliving past glories. Gotta think he’d want to relive some moments with his baby sitter(s).
Ronshua said, 2 months ago

Not all , over halve , if the sudden stop does not kill you , you get to keep your score .

I hope this is not as sad as the Icarus fable .
Richard said, 2 months ago

It’s not a female, rather a pleasure, takes precedence, smacking susie upside the head, now there is a pleasure.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Icarus flew too high in the sky. Ultimately, in the rarified air, he was rendered unconscious, plunged to the earth and died. Calvin passed out in Sunday’s strip but that’s another story. In this sequence, Calvin remains conscious, although not always aware (such as yesterday when his somersault distracted him). Calvin will survive unless the writer retired before Calvin reached the ground. In that case, we’d be left hanging in midair with Calvin.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

To wicky:
Calvin is only six years old. Although he is precocious in some ways, Calvin doesn’t yet realize that smacking a female on the lips is a much greater pleasure.
If you ‘(up)side’ with Calvin on this one, I’ll be inclined to call you wacky wicky.
watcha said, 2 months ago

Ronshua - yeah you right landing does not count all, but with Calvin’s arms all over the place I doubt that he is going to get much of a score. His legs are nice together in all the panels though :-)
Willcar1 said, 2 months ago

Great story, Dino-1. What was the school? High above Cayuga’s waters at Cornell?
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

By the way, yesterday Calvin said ” When you fall from two miles up in the sky, you look down, GASP, and suddenly wake up.” Well, Calvin looked down, GASPED, and then GASPED five more times (instead of waking up) as he fell out of sight in the final panel. Did he GASP five more times because his theory proved to be false? At least Calvin didn’t speak in the name of the Lord.

“When a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken, but the prophet has spoken it presumptuously: you shall not be afraid of him.

Deuteronomy 18:22
Susan001 said, 2 months ago

Maybe Susie will hit him with a water balloon just before he hits earth.
algurka said, 2 months ago

Calvin will soon be meeting with St Peter, so, instead of thinking of all the bad things he’s done, he should be prepping his meeting with recounting all the good (any good?) things that he’s done. I guess that won’t take long.
bald 716 said, 2 months ago

with every little (and big) thing calvin has done, in his life passes before his eyes, this comic can go on for a v e r y long time
Santadon said, 2 months ago

His position is all in the perspective from which he is seen.
Micromegas said, 2 months ago

Deuteronomy on what to do with a “stubborn and rebellious son”:

“all the men of his town are to stone him to death”.

Deuteronomy 21:21

Perhaps not the best idea to apply Biblical verses to Calvin & Hobbes (or vice versa)?
Owlsly Whistlepig said, 2 months ago

I will set this up for some one…what do you think the last thing to go through Calvins mind will be ???
N7326 Foxtrot said, 2 months ago

Micromegas:
Back in the days of Moses was a bad time to be bad!
midiranger said, 2 months ago

ok, I’ll go …

h i s … … . shoelaces!?
uncola777 said, 2 months ago

Try using a transmogrifier gun, and transmogrify into a SAFE. Hoo hoo ha!
Saucy1121 said, 2 months ago

Puddlegum: Icarus did not pass out from lack of air, he flew too close to the sun and the heat melted the wax his father had used to make the wings.
OldHipster said, 2 months ago

This is about as slow as a Howard Johnson waitress.

Ya heard me?
Stede_Bonnet said, 2 months ago

“Oh no, not again”. - DNA
Padre5 said, 2 months ago

Regrets now Calvin for the slushball incident? Start flapping your arms .… . (Hobbs will catch you.)
whitecarabao said, 2 months ago

When I was about 5, I had a recurring dream about falling.

Rather like Calvin, I would fall seemingly forever. Then, instead of the expected Wiley Coyote WHAM! into a canyon bottom, I would wake up on the floor beside my bed.

The fall was real but was no more than a foot and a half (45 cm for our metric friends). My dream had expanded that short drop into miles.
Ronshua said, 2 months ago

whatcha– think you will agree , any airplane crash a pilot walks away from is a great landing . Likewise any landing from a height that you live through is great , you may not get all your points but some are due .

Puddleglum2 –Saucy1121–is right , and not the earth but in an expanse of water. Drowning in that expanse , his hart broken Poppa Daedalus named the water what it is called by today the Icarian Sea . A classic Son not heading sound Fatherly advice story .

Owlsly Whistlepig–Some how Hobbes is at fault here.
bmonk said, 2 months ago

@Ronshua, I’ve been corrected on that definition of landings.

A good landing is one the pilot walks away from.

A great landing is one where the plane can still be used again.
ratlum said, 2 months ago

I am glad its not me
Falling like that
grazer said, 2 months ago

What fun it is watching Calvin’s life pass before MY eyes.
Luckily, it takes ten years to happen.
Fer Lefer said, 2 months ago

IMHO, Calvin’s fall won’t be as long as Dick Tracy’s current storyline…

… or are we wittnessing the birth of spaceman Spiff?
TapiocaHead said, 2 months ago

You are so upsided down Calvin.
ChukLitl said, 2 months ago

He doesn’t really want a slo-mo on that memory.
He missed & she opened a can of whupass.