Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 25, 2019

Life was so hard before Google and Wikipedia.

Just ask Adam West. He knows all about them.

Now matter how popular Batman is, school just never accepts a report like that. Learned that the hard way.

Three words for you Calvin…“BATS AREN’T BUGS!” ;D

Um, yeah, that’s kinda what a “report” is, bucko.

I did a paper on bats my first year in college. Then I tweaked it and used it three or four more times for other classes as I worked to my Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts.

Bats use sonar to hit baseballs. Redbull gives you wings.

Methinks he’s going to write a report comparing and contrasting the many faces of Batman.

Just pretend you’re researching one of the flying dinosaurs, and you’ll ace this thing!

Calvin, do it on Vampire bats. They sleep upside down, fly only at night and suck blood while making you a vampire.

Sounds like too much work, Calvin! No point in doing all of that! /s

Oof Calvin but why would he write an report on bats? BATS!?

I don’t see what the problem is. Calvin should just write about himself. He is pretty batty.

Cut Ms. Wormwood some slack, kid – she thought you might enjoy bats.

But Calvin, bats are great… they could come in handy in a game of Calvinball.

So said my ex-stepson…

A baseball bat is a smooth wooden or metal club used in the sport of baseball to hit the ball after it is thrown by the pitcher. By regulation it may be no more than 2.75 inches (7.0 cm) in diameter at the thickest part and no more than 42 inches (1.067 m) in length.

That’s the spirit, Calvin. You can become a member of Congress and make laws about things you know nothing about.

It is sort of getting you ready for life I suppose. I don’t know how many times bosses have dropped some mind bending system in my lap when the ‘expert’ was fired or left and I could not get training on it until months later.

why notCalvin !!!! you drive alof people batty!!!!

I wrote my one and only term paper in a class on how to write term papers. (That makes a statement right there). I got to pick the topic, so naturally, I chose one that I was already interested in and knew something about. I did it completely the wrong way around. I wrote what I already knew and then looked for supporting references.

Got an A.

W-a-a-a-y too much work, Calvin. More fun to complain. Maybe more time, but also more fun.

I’ve seen several college age and above kids (and supposed adults) who felt the same way.

I did something really interesting for a sort-of final “Thesis” in one of my college computer classes. The teacher stated that it was to be something “business-oriented”, like creating an Inventory System for some local business. It just so happened that my dad was working on a project for his job to determine how long a proposed business project would actually take, so we worked on it together. The bottom line was, make your best estimate, then multiply it by 2.5. I have always remembered that, and it is surprisingly accurate. I got an A, and the teacher specifically mentioned it as a very original project.

I did a report on spiders as a kid. Even painted a jumping spider, Phiddipus johnsonii. I still love bugs, especially bees.

I hear that they are know to inhabit belfrys.

Research is for the unimaginative.

Fast forward to 2019 and children like Calvin are now adults like Calvin.

So read Batman comics. At least you’ll give the teacher a chuckle. Or make her take an extra aspirin.

Too bad it’s not about dinosaurs.

And so begins one of the greatest Calvin and Hobbes classics. :-)

Think of them as tiny dinosaurs.

People are upset about “spoilers” on a 20+ year old comic?

But Calvin, you should know plenty about bats. Especially the one’s in your belfry.

I hate this rerun

Wow, I’d think Calvin would love bats, blood thirsty vampire bats, bwahaha…lol

Calvin and Alfred E. Newman could be cousins – “What, me worry?”

Bats are fascinating creatures, the first ones appeared in the fossil record just 7 million years after the end ofthe dinosaurs.

I’m pretty sure that my parents were happy that all but two of their kids actually enjoyed learning stuff. And those two learned to fake it pretty well, one of them so well that he grew up to be a teacher. My son, on the other hand, pretty much just served his time in jail… I mean school… until he was old enough to stop. Given this assignment, 4 of us would have just gone to work and done it, with something like pleasure (maybe not the report part), one would have grumbled and done it, and one would have required parental guidance aka “prodding”… and done it.

Any boy can grow up to be president.

I would think Calvin would be interested in doing a report on bats. Now, if it was songbirds…

Yes! This story line was a classic. 30 years later I often think BATS AREN’T BUGS!