Don’t you know, Calvin ? You have to stalk your prey and then pounce on it, not announce your arrival. What happened to that training you received, to become a tiger ?
hobbs in the 1st panel is what our cat was like, when ever we couldn’t find him we looked on my sons bed just below the pillow and there would be a rather large lump
hahahahha
Anyone remember the SF zoo Christmas incident with the white Bengal tiger? 3 guys were taunting it (him?) for at least 20 minutes (reconstructed from witnesses), with the tiger lashing its tail and pacing. Suddenly, it paces to the back of the pen, accelerates, and leaps over the containing wall, fence, and moat. The 3 guys and everyone else take off running and screaming, but the tiger pursues only those 3 guys, catches them quickly, and gives each a good rake with its claws - but not killing them. Then it just walks quietly away.
One of the guys dies from his wounds, and the police were out of tranquillizer darts and shot the tiger through the head. (It was a rare and endangered variety too.)
I had a cat once who liked to walk with me in the dark – only he would stalk and attack the sounds my shoes made as I walked. Couldn’t break him of the habit, until I just started lifting my shoe a bit and let him run into the sole.
He did it twice more, getting a bit dazed and shaking his head, and after that he kept walking along prim and proper, “Who me? Somebody attacked your foot? Really now!”
Oh my goodness! Calvin looks so abusely bruised after he gives Hobbes a terrifyingly scare. Oh well, maybe Calvin just learns another tuff lesson again. LOLs!
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Hobbes is very adverse to being scared.
wolfbyte36 almost 15 years ago
Good one Calvin. Just goes to show , that you should never try to scare a tiger.
cleokaya almost 15 years ago
Bonus points though for actually sneaking up on Hobbes. But take away points for not predicting the outcome.
calvindino almost 15 years ago
Don’t you know, Calvin ? You have to stalk your prey and then pounce on it, not announce your arrival. What happened to that training you received, to become a tiger ?
pouncingtiger almost 15 years ago
That’s what he gets for scaring one of nine lives out of Hobbes.
bmonk almost 15 years ago
Love that image of Hobbes in panel 9! But we all know cats are the soul of suave and collected calmness.
TheSoundDefense almost 15 years ago
bmonk: Try this on a cat and you will get very similar results.
rentier almost 15 years ago
I like Hobbes sitting under the chair cushion in the third panel, how he looks with his eyes! I wonder, he fits under the cushion!
Leonardeuler almost 15 years ago
Hobbes a sucker ? It’s merely Calvin: he never learns it the correct way….. Splendid last panel !!
horvath_paul almost 15 years ago
Just one of my all time fave strips :))
xin_lin almost 15 years ago
lololol…..i love these comics all the love to calvin and hobbes….
rshive almost 15 years ago
It’s called out-foxing yourself.
bald almost 15 years ago
hobbs in the 1st panel is what our cat was like, when ever we couldn’t find him we looked on my sons bed just below the pillow and there would be a rather large lump hahahahha
wicky almost 15 years ago
Kinda makes one wish that Watterson would make a new series, I have several of his books, they are wonderful and dogeared.
ninmas almost 15 years ago
good morning, everyone how are you guys?
ultraman almost 15 years ago
we should all listen a bit more closely to that quiet voice.
alondra almost 15 years ago
Calvin it’s about time you figured it out. Hobbes always wins!
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
Yep, Hobbes always wins in the end. Even when it doesn’t appear that way early on.
txmystic almost 15 years ago
It would appear that Hobbes can dish it out, but…
lazygrazer almost 15 years ago
There’s a steep price to pay for out-foxing a tiger.
Leonardeuler almost 15 years ago
Wicky says: “Kinda makes one wish that Watterson would make a new series ……”. How about starting a petition ??
Radical-Knight almost 15 years ago
My wife is the same way. I gotta walk around the house talking to myself saying “stomp, stomp, shuffle, shuffle, stomp, stomp, shuffle, shuffle”.
carmy almost 15 years ago
5 pairs of eyes and 5 noses. That was a good one!
TapiocaHead almost 15 years ago
You scare a tiger, you better have protective gear on from head to toe.
cruncher3 almost 15 years ago
Hobbbes wasn’t getting ready to pounce he was playing with his new potatohead
jay_dallas almost 15 years ago
LOL It is’nt often Calvin gets the best of Hobbes. I love the shock/surprise in the next-to-last panel
wolfbyte36 almost 15 years ago
My cats are as lazy as Garfield if not lazier. You could sneak up on them but they would give you a quick look then go back to sleep.
shirttailslim almost 15 years ago
Calvin, my boy, only the small cats run away when scared. The big cats…… Well you know now. right?
rentier almost 15 years ago
Calvin needs the Doctor now!
Zippy007 almost 15 years ago
He lies in wait like a lion in cover; he lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.
His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strength.
He says to himself, “God has forgotten; he covers his face and never sees.”
Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”?
But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Psalm 10:9-14
alife almost 15 years ago
I AM my own worst enemy! I DON’T learn from my mistakes. It does make life more interesting that way:D
stuart almost 15 years ago
Anyone remember the SF zoo Christmas incident with the white Bengal tiger? 3 guys were taunting it (him?) for at least 20 minutes (reconstructed from witnesses), with the tiger lashing its tail and pacing. Suddenly, it paces to the back of the pen, accelerates, and leaps over the containing wall, fence, and moat. The 3 guys and everyone else take off running and screaming, but the tiger pursues only those 3 guys, catches them quickly, and gives each a good rake with its claws - but not killing them. Then it just walks quietly away.
One of the guys dies from his wounds, and the police were out of tranquillizer darts and shot the tiger through the head. (It was a rare and endangered variety too.)
bmonk almost 15 years ago
I had a cat once who liked to walk with me in the dark – only he would stalk and attack the sounds my shoes made as I walked. Couldn’t break him of the habit, until I just started lifting my shoe a bit and let him run into the sole.
He did it twice more, getting a bit dazed and shaking his head, and after that he kept walking along prim and proper, “Who me? Somebody attacked your foot? Really now!”
Never did it again though. :-)
Wildmustang1262 almost 15 years ago
Oh my goodness! Calvin looks so abusely bruised after he gives Hobbes a terrifyingly scare. Oh well, maybe Calvin just learns another tuff lesson again. LOLs!
RinaFarina almost 15 years ago
Wicky, wouldn’t that be cat-eared? or tiger-eared?
Weiland almost 15 years ago
Tiger’s are dangerous.
Jimbojessejames almost 15 years ago
Calvin gets his own back on Hobbes! Sorta…
alexhuama almost 15 years ago
si se enojan gacho cuando uno despierta de esa manera a las personas o tigres XD
awgiedawgie Premium Member about 14 years ago
It would be worth the beating just to see that look on Hobbes’ face!
mark19 almost 13 years ago
5th panel, Calvin’s face
suwin.supasathian over 2 years ago
Surprise!