Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 15, 2020

Hobbes did it to prank Calvin.

Death by bike. What a horrible way to go.

my, what a heavy sleeper Hobbes is when it comes to Calvin’s nocturnal paranoia on the bicycle

A bicycle named Christine .

Looks like Mike and Sully have some competition.

Give him a sedative, and make it two!!

Calvin has an anxiety closet like Michael Binkley.

Why isn’t Hobbes there to protect Calvin?

Why is stuff flying around the room like in the Poltergeist movie.

Only the bicycle knows the truth.

Ninjacycle.

This is morphing into Night Gallery

…….. HE didn’t. 8O

LOL! Or did he?

Where is Hobbes during all of this?

Does the bike consider Calvin his spokes-person?

You’d have thought Mom and Dad would have noticed Calvin bringing a bike upstairs. It would have been noisy.

And where’s Hobbes. Sneaky tiger!

Better an evil bicycle hiding in the closet than an evil clown.

I love the way his mother is holding Calvin in the fourth panel. It just shows that no matter how aggravating he can be his mother still loves him and in times of crisis Calvin still turns to his parents for support.

[Insert cynical comment on bad parenting here.]

Wow! Shades of a Rod Serling thriller! :o0

Taming the wild bicycle takes patiance and courage. Worth it though. Be brave Calvin.

This strip hits close to home. When I was a kid, after a nightmare about a musical toy coming to life, I was scared to death of it.

A headlight on the handlebars would be the finishing touch. A single eye glowing dimly from the depths of the closet. “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of bikes? The Shadow (aka Calvin) knows. WAHAHHAHHAH!”

And here’s a thought. Maybe Hobbes brought the bike up the stairs and hid it in the closet. And now he’s in the corner somewhere snickering (yes, tigers can snicker) at Calvin’s night terrors. Never trust a tiger.

Put him back on his tricycle!

Most of his adventures, positive or negative, seem like an active imagination. This one… this one smacks of full blown mental illness.

What’s the big deal? The bike just wants to know if he wants to take a little ride down to the CREEAAKK! ☺

MOMMY! That bicycle in the closet is drooling!

Once again, the line between Calvin’s imagination and reality is blurred. How did he get the bicycle upstairs and into his closet without being noticed?

This strip certainly has a creepy vibe, especially the second panel. Looks like this happens somewhere between 8 and 11 PM, given that the Mom is still wearing her regular clothes instead of her nightgown.

Wheels within wheels, Mom!

That’s some bike. Even the original Daleks couldn’t get up stairs.

Hello

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Perhaps this story arc is much older than we thought. Could William Shatner have portrayed Calvin’s story, as the adult who was a plane passenger, when he was trying to tell the air crew that there is something on the wing tearing off pieces of it? Submitted for your approval…

[Those who understand this ref viewed a lot of TV in black and white as kids or they followed the series when it was replayed on the TV Land channel within the past 20 years.]

“A Thing About Machines”

Where’s Hobbes??