Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 30, 2023

Calvin will give a doubloon to the first person to sight that bee.

Obviously bees hate you more, Calvin.

The sting builds character!!!

Put Tracer Bullet on the case to find that culprit.

He brought it on himself.

Calvin’s ridiculous overexaggerations never fail to elicit a laugh out of me.

Oh! Bee have. (An oldie but a good ’un……)

You started it, Calvin. I notice you don’t tell Mom you rock-bombed the bee’s home.

Bees are a critical part of our ecology.

Calvin just wants to outrun the bees from My Girl.

That is a very impressive drawing of the bee, I want to know how Watterson drew that!

Folks, don’t kill or mess around with bees. They do so much more good to this world than bad. If you don’t mess with them, they won’t mess with you.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. No sympathy for Calvin here.

There are certain bees you can’t mess with, including the Bubble Bee. They don’t bother you, they just go about their business collecting pollen and fertilizing flowers.

Probably shouldn’t have done that in the first place, Calvin. If you see a bee’s nest (or a hornet’s nest or a wasp’s nest or anything similar), I would just keep your distance from it.

A beautiful drawn bee.

Hey man, you been messin’ with the bees?

When young, things are closer and bigger than they appear

Love this comic. Panel 4 perfectly captures pure terror. And the huge bee is how it seems to a child. Yes, Calvin deserved the sting. And be thankful it wasn’t a wasp or hornet- they’re even more painful.

Now mom can clean up her spilled coffee.

Lancers, freakin’ Lancers!

You may still hate them, Calvin; but after this experience, I hope that you have at least a respect for what they can do to you!

Been there, done that

Bee thankful it wasn’t a yellowjacket.

We have about a dozen kinds of bees in our yard this time of year. They range from tiny blue and green ones up to your basic bumble bee.

Yesterday, I zapped a bunch of wasp nests with poison spray. They won’t get Calvin (or my grandchildren) now.

Great graphic of the panic a kid feels when a foolish gesture backfires. Nobody does it better than Cal.

Those aren’t bees… They are hornets.

If it was a bee, Calvin, stinging you will kill it.

The Unicorn and the Wasp, dang I thought we’d already dealt with this. Back with Agatha Christie and Donna Noble.

I once knew a kid who was allergic to bee stings -

and he still did the exact same thing.

Be nice to bees, and not just out of a sense of self-protection but out of appreciation for all they do for us.

Leave them alone, they might be an endangered species

My best friend walked too close to a nest once. The bees chased him into a cave, and I had to pull three stingers out of his head. He said “I think they can see in the dark.”

It’s the bees knees.

For those that missed it – Son of a Bee – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w10-y0azT_4

if it was a bee, don’t worry Calvin it die while stinging you, but if their is no sting then watch out for wasps!

The bee died protecting the hive. Calvin will have learned a lesson that cost the life of a bee.

A lot of people seen Cal’s superbee. It’s created quite the buzz

No, Calvin, after she stings you she dies.

The only time I’ve ever been stung by a bee is when I accidentally stepped on one while barefoot.

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The bee may also have been barefoot, but I never had time to check.

Calvin can’t see without his glasses.

Calvin is such a jerk! I love bees! Calvin deserves the worst! This comic strip sucks!

Stung by bees, wasps, hornets when I was very young going through fields & woods in Chatham NJ.

Bees, it should be noted, don’t seem to have any fondness for Calvin, either. ;-)

Deserved.

Are you sure that’s not one of those bee flies that looks like a bee but isn’t?

I love Bill Watterson’s realistic bug drawings. And then in the winter when the wasps and bees are in hibernation, static electricity takes their place in stinging you, and it’s often the one you least expect (compared to with wasps and bees where you can try to avoid them). ti “YOWW!”

I’m with Calvin regarding wasps and hornets. They’re out to get you with a vengeance and should be incinerated on sight. Honey bees and bumblebees deserve to live a long and fruitful life.

Ha everyone ignored the fact that he has a great throwing arm and ability to actually hit a bee in flight?

I am afraid the national guard radar would not be able to detect the bee, since it is not metal and the altitude is low. Yes, an affectionate soothing care by mom can surely help you. Love the cute twosome in the last panel.

probably a hornet, wasp or yellow jacket, not a bee

They got wasps in Africa so big, they can bite a guy’s head right off. It’s true! A guy told me at a trump rally, yesterday.

Maybe bees don’t care all that much for you, Calvin.

He hates bees? Dumb kid.

My favorite species of honeybees are from Japan. They are considered nature’s ultimate revenge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNroEwFxh6I&t=217s

Mom: Which Harpoon version? Air, surface, or subsurface?

solid 10/10

Calvin… Great aim, terrible judgment.

FAAFO