Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 31, 2021

Make sure to take your galoshes off before you walk back into the living room or Mom will muck you up.

Worm Lives Matter, Calvin

And afterwards make lunch for school.

What if he did that outside a vegan restaurant?

S q u i s h

He’s a killer, he is!

We used to run barefoot all summer. I’ll never forget the unpleasant sensation of a particularly large night crawler moving under the sole of my foot!

C’mon Calvin! It’s an opportunity for you to get dirty-and we KNOW you like that! ;D

Just hope there isn’t a giant Mama worm somewhere looking to muck you up for revenge.

… and then collect the muck and put it in Susie’s lunch box.

Squeamish tiger!

Muck you, worms!

I do that with my car tires.

My grandfather and I did it with May-bugs.

They’ll be hearing from the ASPCW…

Does that make Calvin a wormmuckraker?

Okay. How many of you didn’t tries wormucking when you was a kid? I’ll confesses I does it too when I was a cub.

Now that I think of it, I don’t see worms on the sidewalks as much as I used to.

why squash them, he should just feed them to the fishes! Make mom happy to scale and cook fish tonight!

“Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.” — Bradley Millar

Destroying good food. If you get hungry enough you will wish you knew how to eat them.

I don’t think Hobbes wants squishies between his toes…

Here the slugs come out after the rains, not the worms. Mucking slugs is not something one does more than once.

Hobbes expression in panel four is priceless and somewhat explains the meaning of “mucking”.

I wonder if he’s humming “every worm is sacred, every worm is great! If a worm gets wasted, G_d gets quite irate!”

We used to engage in snail crunching

I was just thinking about this one a few days ago. “Wormucking” still remains to be one of my favourite terms that Calvin has invented.

Oh, mucking A!

I’ll never forget a night back in April 1993 that a friend and I were driving in western NY outside of Rochester after a rain event. I don’t know what it was about that particular night but the worms were all over the road as we drove. The road was just covered for what seemed like 2 or 3 miles. I have never seen so many and you can hear the splatter/squish in the wheelwells as we drove along. It was awful.

Run worms. I try to teach my family to care for nature. Heck, I repurpose spiders from the house to one of my potted plants on the patio, using a cup.

The rain stopped, so Hobbes takes an umbrella?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86mLpbwwLPM

I confess when I was a kid and it would, I found the worms that crawled out afterward to be gross.

Funny, you never see worms on the sidewalk after a heavy rain anymore… more climate change?

Except the mucking, this six year old is truly enjoying the rain remnants.