Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 09, 2024

Rosalyn must need money for college applications.

Rosalyn doesn’t want to babysit a messy kid.

Calvin is screwed!

A babysitting epidemic.

R O S A L Y N, R O S A L Y N, R O S A L Y N!! AAAhhhhhh

A Marine boot camp sergeant would be a better baby-sitter than Rosalyn!!

One of the best arc-starters in all of comic-dom.

Bad news (a bath and Rosalyn) always arrives at the same time.

Rosalyn’s one of the few people that can handle Calvin – for the right price!

At least Rosalyn’s lucky he’s Calvin, and not Jack-Jack.

Oh no.

Just when he thought things couldn’t get any worse…

And Calvin thought that getting attacked by Hobbes was the worst part of the day.

Que in “The March of The Dark Lord.”

Hurricane Rosalyn?

What a terrible day for Calvin! A bath and Rosalyn in the same day! And we never even got to see his school day. Did Miss Wormwood give him an F in spelling again?

The day just gets better and better. “Ol’ catapult butt” is a good one…..

SPOILER ALERT! This is the beginning of the mighty STUPENDOUS MAN saga!!

“You’d be amazed at how many kids drown in the bathtub every year!”

A conflation of incidents PROVING that the universe is (as usual) out to get Calvin.

Where, oh where, is Stupendous Man when you need him.

4th panel: “This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test…”

Rosalyn! Odd tidbit, when I was younger I must’ve only read a very select few strips with her in them, because for the longest time I thought she was Calvin’s college-aged sister!

From the movie ’Color of Money:

“It’s like a nightmare. It just keeps getting worse and worse…”

I can just imagine Calvin doing the Tyler1 help scream there.

Compare that to my kid who, for some reason, LOVES baths!

What is wrong with them?! Don’t they realize that Cavin hates Rosalyn by now?!

Uh-oh, a date night. Careful, folks, or you might end up with another one.

Oh boy! Foreshadowing! The❤️Count ❤️s Rosalyn adventures!

Attila comes. Doom at 6.

Calvin has such bad timing. When I was that age, I bathed once a week.

In the last panel, it looks like Calvin got nearly eclipsed by his mouth.

Sometimes problems never seem to end.

Uh-oh.

Panel 4 has the best expression!!! ☺️

That’s I call from the saucepan to the fire

“The Night of… The Nemesis!”

Not a good day, beat up by Twinky in school, Hobbes tackles him at the door, and next Rosalyn will be there.

here we go……

AUGHHHH!

…and the hits just keep on coming. (btw: I remember when a bath in the afternoon was a sure sign of the apocalypse.)

Calvin is having a really rough day. Ambushed by Hobbes, early bath, his nemisis sitter tonight… How bad can it get? We shall see.

Doubtful she’ll show up; Rosalyn is volunteering for Planned Parenthood now.

Serenity now!!!

Coming home just gets better and better…

And now the main plot gets under way!

Great screaming face from Calvin in the last panel.

Mwa. Ha. Ha…

A loser’s day.

Poor Roslyn. Oh, If I remember right, she has Calvin’s number.

Do you ever wonder what happened to Rosalyn? Did she finish college? Get married? Transgendered? Open a weed dispensary? So many loose ends.

“Why all the baths? Is there some epidemic going around?”

This made me LOL! (again)

8^)

Half-way through 3rd panel – telegraphs Rosalyn.

Calvin, you can always let loose Hobbes on Rosalyn for good. Let the feline try his theatrics on someone of his size.

I really enjoy these Rosalyn arcs.

I love Rosalyn. She doesn’t put up with that monster.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Mom must have told him that between his second and third bowls of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs.