Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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imaginarypet said, about 1 month ago

How about comments from us, Calvin?
Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

Oh no, the evil bicycle?
Fer Lefer said, about 1 month ago

That’s tough love
Yukoner said, about 1 month ago

If you fall off and try again, are you recycling?
rayannina said, about 1 month ago

If he falls off, he’ll just roll the rest of the way himself.
vibjyor said, about 1 month ago

Calvin, you forgot knee pads. Didn’t you know that is the most important thing when you are learning to ride a bicycle ?
EarlWash said, about 1 month ago

…and elbo pads, and head pads, and…
sjoujke said, about 1 month ago

Eveything but a helmet….mind you, Calvin’s pretty hard headed.
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

I thought that Calvin was cold.
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

“Les Bicyclettes de Belsize” - Engelbert Humperdinck
Calvin needs a “bicycle built for two”. Then Hobbes can ride in tandem with Calvin and show him how it’s done.
LX013 said, about 1 month ago

So many sheets of clothes are a good pretext of getting fat!
Ronshua said, about 1 month ago

Pumping or plumping your ride Calvin ?
watcha said, about 1 month ago

Well at least he should not be top heavy anymore - I pity anybody with such a big head trying to ride a bike.
ejcapulet said, about 1 month ago

Hey - he looks like a little Chinese kid between October and May (Chinese parents think if their kid is wearing fewer than 4 layers in the late fall/winter/early spring the kid is going to fall over dead).
NebulousRikulau said, about 1 month ago

He forgot gloves.
Scraped my palms up something awful, once upon a time.
Herocoder said, about 1 month ago

someone is very touchy ..
unemandarine said, about 1 month ago

Padding… Good thinking… A helmet would be necessary, I don’t think he’s got such a hard head…
Avolunteer said, about 1 month ago

Definitely the helmet! But all he really needs is hockey gear!
jelzap said, about 1 month ago

Comments sometimes does that to people….
algurka said, about 1 month ago

If Calvin falls off, he’ll just bounce back.
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

Keep giving him shots, Hobbes. He blames you all the time anyhow!
jrbj said, about 1 month ago

My first thought about learning to ride a bicycle was why do the put a bar on the boys bike and not on the girls. That bar hurts when you run into something and leave the seat.
Macushlalondra said, about 1 month ago

So much protection takes all the fun out of it.
DarkHicks said, about 1 month ago

he is going to bounce when he falls
cleokaya said, about 1 month ago

When I first learned to ride a bike my mom told me the next morning that she checked in on me in the middle of the night and my legs were pedaling in my sleep.
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

jrbj,
Your comment about the boy’s bike is ‘without exception; indisputable’, bar none.
Most girls used to wear dresses or skirts. The bar would/could hinder their pedaling.
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

Have you (anyone) seen ZITS today?
“Who(m) do we know with a couch saw?”
We saw Calvin with a saw a while back.

JanCinVV (and grazer), please see my late post from yesterday, if you haven’t already done so.
BC13 said, about 1 month ago

Yeah, I saw Zits. Too bad Calvin can’t cross over to actually do the sawing himself.

I think he’s got so much stuff on it’s going to be rather hard to pedal. Even walking looks like a problem for him.
Stede_Bonnet said, about 1 month ago

Sadly, most American kids already look like Calvin in the last panel WITHOUT the additional padding. At least Calvin’s trying to actually ride a real bike rather than pretending to be Tony Hawk on his Playstation while shoveling Cheetoes into his pie hole.
Ivy0730 said, about 1 month ago

I thought winters come!
bald 716 said, about 1 month ago

if calvin is using all those layers what is it going to be like in the winter when you need layers to keep warm in the winter ?
NoBrandName said, about 1 month ago

Harumph, and here I was thinking that the last panel might be where Matt & Trey got the idea for Eric Cartman.
TapiocaHead said, about 1 month ago

… think that Calvin was ahead of his time ..that’s how kids dresses nowadays, underwear …sweat shorts … jeans …. layers …
tonytiger29 said, about 1 month ago

My mind went to the movie “A Christmas Story” where the brother was so bundled he couldn’t walk and fell on his back where he got stuck like a turtle. What a great movie. “You’ll shoot yer eye out kid.”
Carmy said, about 1 month ago

He doesn’t need a bicycle to roll around on, he can roll on his own.
Destiny23 said, about 1 month ago

He looks like the guy on “Regis and Kelly” a couple weeks ago trying to set a world record for wearing the most T-shirts at the same time. Except he almost died in the attempt…
bmonk said, about 1 month ago

@tonytiger29, I thought of Randy Parker in A Christmas Story also! LOL!
Tenney Wiley said, about 1 month ago

Calvin and his bike, as me and my life; we run, we hide, we keep on trying… go for it little guy…
Susan001 said, about 1 month ago

I’m reminded of a comic strip from the ‘50’s called “Dotty Dripple”.
There was one where hubby Horace was dressing his son Buddy to play football, stuffing him with so much padding that the poor kid couldn’t move!

I doubt that Calvin can even mount a bicycle.
Puddleglum2 said, about 1 month ago

BC13,
Yes, some of the comics do have crossovers from time to time. Calvin might have to be concerned with copyright infringement unless he could ‘crosscut’ over, surreptitiously.
“Crossover (fiction), a storyline shared between two fictional universes, or involving characters from multiple universes” - Wickipedia That would be right up Calvin’s imaginary alley.
comicsnoob said, about 1 month ago

Zits are not here!
BC13 said, about 1 month ago

No they are here: http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/zits.asp
grazer said, about 1 month ago

I do hope he remembered to go to the bathroom first.
treBsdrawkcaB said, about 1 month ago

Calvin doesn’t need more padding; he needs a tricycle. He should haul the possessed bicycle to the scrap metal dealer.
Dino-1 said, about 1 month ago

The use of safety equipment including helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads for sports other than hockey and football wasn’t used back then. Wearing alot of layers like that and wearing a football helmet was all you had. These were much different times in which no one wore seat belts in cars either. Everybody stuffed the seat belts down in the seat because they hurt if you sat on one!
I do remember getting smart like Calvin one day and stuffing the back of my pants before heading out again to learn to ice skate. As for bike riding I decided to teach myself to learn to ride in the backyard for a much softer landing!
ratlum said, about 1 month ago

Hobbes opinions should be listened to
Vonnegut said, about 1 month ago

If childhood is so awfully dangerous, how come so many idiots survive to become adults?
N7326 Foxtrot said, about 1 month ago

I think the helmet would be to protect the concrete from Calvin’s head,
Reenster said, about 1 month ago

BC 13, Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love the comic strip “Zits” but have never been able to find a way to read it daily. The only problem is that I keep looking for astute comments, but none to be found :-(
cholldekkgher stenst... said, about 1 month ago

He looks a lot like my avatar!