Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 09, 2021

That’s one way to not eat your peas.

The incredible shrinking Calvin strikes again!

Turn the spoon around and flip a pea in Dad’s wide-open mouth.

Calvin and vegetables don’t really get along.

Never much cared for peas.

hmmm…maybe peas do that to the brain.

He is small but that small??? I believe it tho

It’s a shame that he doesn’t have a brother because then they could have pea wars.

Hmmmm, I remember shelling fresh peas, sitting in the doorway with a huge pile of pods in a sack and a bowl in my lap….some of them even made it there. Mum accepted the loss and gave me less at dinner.

And this is another reason why he’s an only child.

Give peas a chance

I was never able to get anything LIKE that kind of distance…

PLEASE don’t eat your PEAS like that!

Peas release me, let me go…..

That would explain the quantity of peas under my sons seat, except he’s a messy eater without this.

He’s never at peas with vegetables.

Calvin’s version of a peashooter!

He should have waited for Hobbes to tell him to do it. At least THEN he’d be minding his peas and cues!

Think of it as a lesson in geometry. I mean he got the lever and fulcrum going on there. Not to mention the lessons of gravity and the possible military applications of it. Not a big pea fan here.

Dad is such a killjoy.

https://i.redd.it/60g9ndje5xz21.jpg

Well, kid, you may imagine yourself having the proportional strength of an ant, but your insect-self still ain’t got enough mass to launch that pea.

What Calvin’s parents would give for some peas and quiet!

For me I like peas, yet I wonder how many adults like to do that, I know lot of adults do not like peas.

C’mon, Dad…Calvin’s just visualizing whirled peas!

I used to try doing that. I HATED peas. Dad whupped me good (back when you COULD be whupped) and I never tried it again…at least when dad was at the table. :)

Peas was never an option.

My folks wouldn’t allow me to P all over the house!

Peas. What they’re good for.

I got my little boy a t-shirt from Del Monte that said, “Peas help me.”

“Stop playing with your food!”

“I’m not going to eat that.”

At least he didn’t shoot it to his left…

For once Bill Watterson has got his physics wrong. Assuming that the giant pea is of Calvin’s weight, with the spoon acting as the fulcrum, Calvin would not be able to lift the pea. Law of moments. Notwithstanding this, nobody understands physics better than Bill Watterson.

Read Sun Tzu’s second book: The Art of Peas.

I have a theory why kids don’t like veggies: that awful yucky green color—kids hate it.