Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 08, 2012

I remember doing that as a kid… not quite that amount of dirt, but Mom gasping, “Look what you’re doing!” Looking behind me, seeing a trail of dirt footprints left by my Keds. :-)

Oh oh. When mom gets a hold on him his butt’s gonna be butter milk.

Your problems are all behind you now, Calvin.

I’m surprised that he’s not yelling, "MOM, WHERE ARE MY BOOTS?

Gotta give the kid some points for looking for his boots so he won’t track mud all through the house…

I’ve heard of people that took a walk in mud and have accidentally stepped out of one of their shoes.

You probably left them in the mud yesterday!

His mum is going to kill him if she finds out…

where’s Hobbes? he dun join…

If he could just find his boots, he could’ve removed them and saved Mom all that cleaning.

I think Hobbes was splashing around in the tub with them!

Mud! Mud everywhere!

Sooner than he thinks, too.

well, it’s certain that he’ll find them in the last place he looks

Are we sure he doesn’t have them on?

I enjoy reading the comments almost as much as reading the strip. grin!

My husband still does that, and he’s a fair few decades older than Calvin.

Coming soon, an epic conflict: MOTHER VS. MUDDER.

And, by the way, where is that darn steam cleaner?

…there’s so much mud on his feet, for all we know he IS wearing his boots…

who is/was Shultz?

Calvin had better make tracks before his Mom finds him! Oh, he already did! Now she will need a GPS to locate Calvin.

Who knows.

A little after the fact, Calvin?

Good gravy…where is all that mud coming from? It’s almost like his feet are defecating…

You keep looking, Calvin. Soon you won’t need them…

Find the boots change then blame somebody else like Hobbes for the muddy tracks .Mum will never catch on who the real culprit is?

Time to break out the toothbrush and bucket. Maybe a little military action will calm that boy down! (Nah!)

Not just kids: We had someone with muddy overshoes walk into a WT G rant store one time. (Janitor was not amused)

He’s making one of those Billy (from Family Circus) dotted-line strips!

ask Nancy Sinatra

Maybe they’re still in the mud pit that he clearly walked through. :-s

Calvin, my boy . . . when your mother sees the mess you’ve made on her nice, clean floors . . . your name will be “Mud”!

;-)

love calvin sooo funny lol

The sacrifice is the missed praise from some deluded individuals.

Why even bother at this point.