Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 18, 2017

Dad probably still feels guilty about the camping trip.

That’s exaggerated and inappropriate context. Get out of the gutter and play out back!

Oh, it just starts with a ball in the gutter. But we all know that is just the first step on the slippery slope that inevitably leads to embezzlement and murder.

A ball in the gutter is better than in the plumbing vent.

Watterson is channeling his dad again here.

Relax dad. He couldn’t very well hit in a ball in a downpour. It’s payback time.

It’s not as if I’ve been embezzling money or killing people, right? That comes later…

thought that vacation was supposed to relax dear ol’ dad.

Only gutters in the front?

But it always starts small….

This looks like a good candidate for those guys who put DKT’s head onto Calvin’s…

Could be worse, that ball could be going through the window into the living room instead of into the gutter.

Why is he mowing the lawn in an office shirt?