Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 24, 2018

Sorry, Calvin, your Dad is only going to let you touch stuff that has Fisher Price written on it.

He’ll probably be even angrier about the power tools than the binoculars, since the binoculars were broken by accident, but you’re breaking the power tools on purpose.

Calvin – you are headed right way for a break-up with Dad.

When I was young I got a set of Incredible Hulk kiddie binoculars. (It included a compass.)

What is it with Hobbes and babes? They’re not even tigers like him.

I’m a tad surprised Calvin isn’t being more circumspect after the bitter recriminations over dad’s binoculars.

LOL- great laugh with this one. I love how Calvin’s logic works.

Dangerous strategy Dad.

Incorrigible is the word that comes to mind…

Be cautious, don’t break them!!

Leave it to Calvin to get the wrong message from all of this!

I like the way that tiger thinks!

Rewarding a child for his carelessness strikes me as a poor approach to behaviour modification…

No good deed goes unpunished.

Today’s economics lesson- moral hazard

Sorry I haven’t been here for a while. I just really don’t like the binoculars arc.

I’m with Hobbes. Keep those binoculars in good shape!

I think your dad would catch on right away, Calvin. Enjoy your gift.

Dad’s created a monster. Then again, I’m sure he’s told himself that every day of Calvin’s life.

It’s been so long since my own childhood (which was not only is the last century but the last millennia as well), but this was sort of my father’s approach to things as well as I got older. I had my own widget, let us say. If I broke it or couldn’t find it, that was on me, not on him. (This did not apply to automobiles, having grown up in the era of the “family car.” I could use it, once licensed and insured; but I sort of thought that if I did have an accident, I hoped I would be the only fatality – because if not, my dad would kill me!)

I find it Nikon to impossible that his dad gave him his own. Probably after a Steiner or two of beer. But I don’t care because I Leica this comic.

I still can’t figure out how Calvin pulverized the first pair… I couldn’t do that if I tried!

Pulvarisation of the binacolurs is possible when Calvin’s sledge going over it at full throttle. Hobbes idea of looking around for babes is cute.

Calvin? You got off lightly. Don’t push it.

Noooo. This CAN’T end well for Calvin.

However, it can make me laugh. Good one.

Well, at least Dad learned something….

I remember being about Calvin’s age and having a pair of Fisher-Price binoculars. I loved them.