Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 18, 2019

Fifteen minutes later, the police showed up at Calvin’s house.

Considering how often Calvin tries to get his hands on weapons, it’s a REALLY good thing he’s not in jail yet.

today, he wouldn’t need to make any phone calls, he could find it online!

Can The Home Depot help Calvin with his project? Of course not for he’s just a kid!

(Sarcastically) Oh you poor thing.

Calvin’s been watching THE MIGHTY MACHINES too much…

And the neighborhood breathes a collective sigh of relief.

I recall having a pretty good day once as a kid with a rototiller.

Remember when Calvin rolled Mom’s car out of the driveway and it got “wrecked”? Now picture him with an actual D8 Cat.

Love Hobbes’ s casual loll on the steps

Calvin, there are enough chemicals, baking soda, vinegar in the house to make your own. Experiment and see what you can come up with. You have the imagination.

Calvin’s wishing he could be a danger to himself and others.

They should consider day camp for him. Or organized sports.

Or manual labour.

“Aren’t you a little young to be renting heavy machinery?”

“Yes, yes I am.”

Yep, no way Calvin is going to have a blast today!

I do not even want to know why that whacko wanted those things.

He needs to find an Acme dealer. (Where does Wile E. Coyote get all his stuff?)

If the movies were to be believed, back in the 1960s and earlier, you could actually buy blasting materials (such as dynamite and TNT), at your local hardware store… but can anyone confirm that? ;-)

You’d think Valley Hardware would be on to the kid by now and start him on the ordinance version of a snipe hunt…

I’m surprised Valley Hardware tried to humor him with the Rototiller. Can’t they tell that a child is calling them?

Who needs tools when Calvin and Hobbes are their own wrecking crew.

Whew! We all dodged an ‘interesting’ day. Happy Friday!

I miss the innocence of the 90’s, if you tried to pull this today you’d get an FBI inspector at your door in 5 minutes.

My grandson’s typical day.

Rototillers are pretty useful. I’ve had several. But I must admit that they’re boring.

Well, he could always learn all about plumbing.

Has no-one posted a link to this cute & funny prank call? Dublin Girl calls a demolition company to take care of her school… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllQi0cNRuM

Sounds like the poor kid is just gathering materials for the school science fair. I wonder what he is building?

When we were kids we used to make calls like that. The difference is that Calvin is serious – or thinks he is…

He needs to contact Phineas and Ferbe’s contractors.

Next time try Amazon!

When we were kids, we successfully created our own gunpowder.

Ahh, youth.

This is what you get when you talk to your child about grades just before bedtime.

The only thing that kept Calvin out of jail was Watterson preferring different, and arguably better story lines.

If only the ACME Corporation existed in “Calvin and Hobbes”… no wait, bad idea! Bad idea!

That kid is in to major mayhem. Fortunately no one is catering to him.

If this had been 2009 instead of 1989, the NSA would’ve had illegal surveillance running by panel two.

Yikes, that’s one ugly piece of furniture. Mom & Dad must’ve picked that up a Kmart Blue Light Special.