Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 01, 2018

Stupendous Man must get his gastronomical powers from his suit (and Mom should let Calvin wear the suit).

Krytonians may have steel-like stomachs, Calvin, but not you (nice try in other words)

And then the puppet master wearing black picks him up so he can fly.

Parents: Stupendous man’s one weakness.

A stomach of steel …………. and a brain to match!

Both Empty ….

Stupendous Man is going to need a butt made of steel pretty soon if he doesn’t do as his mom asks.

Superman knows when to take his cape off.

Test him! Start with brussel sprouts and squash, then fried okra, some cooked carrots and green beans, corned beef hash, grits…

Careful… upsetting your “Alfred” doesn’t help you…

And a hero is born.

Let him wear the costume if it gets him to eat his dinner. Think about it, would you rather fight him for the next hour he has to eat what’s on his plate, or set with him in his costume and he eats with no argument. Just set rules now like, you don’t want to hear him complain if you do the suit comes off, or remind him about his stomach of steal.

He’d best have a rump to match!

…a stomach of steel and a Mom with a steel will! ;o]

It must be another helping of that toxic waste that would otherwise turn him into a mutant…

“Calvin? Who’s Calvin?”

a few moments later

“But Mom…”

Think about it Mom… stomach of steel.

Says a lot about mom’s cooking…

Don’t get me wrong, I love Calvin and Hobbes but sometimes I wonder at the parenting skills. Today parents would have been encouraged to indulge with Calvin’s costume and play along rather than stifle his imagination and creativity for “proper behavior” at the table. Back when first run I did not think anything about this but now I kind of feel sorry for Calvin.

I have to wonder, did it ever occur to Calvin’s mom that she might just be a terrible cook? Everything she makes looks like green slime.

Boy, they’re pretty strict at that house. Lighten up, it’s Halloween…

Well so it is the first for Stupendous Man!!

I take it Calvin doesn’t like mom’s cooking.

My parents would phrase things in a form of questions, but they really weren’t asking.

Shouldn’t Stupendous Man live in his own house? Not with his mother? Plus, with a stomach of steel, you can eat that gunk, unless it has king’s water in it.

This one makes me think of a quote from Sheldon Cooper on The Big Bang Theory …

“Anyway, the local cuisine was a little more sausage-based than I’m used to, and the result was an internal blitzkrieg with my lower intestine playing the part of Czechoslovakia.”