Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 27, 2017

Wonder how Calvin will die, and will it involve Susie?

Stupendous Man meets his “kryptonite”!

It’s not the swooping that concerns him, it’s the part after the swoop.

I have this same problem with the high board at the pool.

When I was very small, my older siblings would slide down the supporting poles of the slide in our park (about 7 ft high), fireman style. I was two or three, and decided to try it. Unfortunately I didn’t grab on quick enough, and plummeted to earth. Fortunately, it WAS earth underneath, with long grass, not gravel! I got a concussion and a huge lump on my head. I still remember hearing the moms scream as I fell.

Nothing was broken, but decades later when I had a CAT scan we discovered the mark is still there on my forehead.

Stupendous Man changes his name to Not So Stupendous Man.

Who knew these things were so high?

This is Stupendous Man’s 1st appearance I believe…

Calvin learns the first lesson in new experiences: sometime the first glance does not provide the complete picture

Stupendous Woman to the rescue… gives Calvin a push… “ARGH!”

If Calvin could just change recess classes across the playground away from pushy Susie, he would learn a valuable lesson:The class is more serener on the other slide.

We have to work up to this. Okay?

Susie…enough with the slide remarks…

It’s weird – Calvin can take his wagon/sled down that monstrous hill in his backyard/woods [who knows how steep it really is] but a simple slide scares him. – Maybe Hobbes is the calming factor in his backyard.

When I was younger and even more stupid I hit my head falling out of a tree. Everybody told me that I have not been right ever since. Perhaps that explains me voting Democrat.

I loved the slide! There is a little park around the corner from me and I have a sneaky go on the swings when nobody is about. But I haven’t done so for a while now.

xxx

Have fun.

Come on STUPENDOUS WIMP! Get a move on, you’re holding up the line.