Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 12, 2010

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    I do remember this one….

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    vibjyor  over 14 years ago

    The worst fears came true !

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    merigreis  over 14 years ago

    Oh no!

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    Yukoner  over 14 years ago

    Do you think Hobbes might have broken out? Maybe in search of fresh meat or tuna or Susie or maybe even Calvin?

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    ladywolf17  over 14 years ago

    Oh no! OMG! Is Hobbes alright.

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    Marderofski  over 14 years ago

    OOOooooooh, this one, I forgot about this one…

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    rentier  over 14 years ago

    Susi has stolen him! I am sure! Smooches with Susi, not to think about…. Calvin MUST prevent this….quick Calvin, quick…

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    geigy  over 14 years ago

    This one is of particular interest to me, since it was my first C&H comic. I remember having no idea who Hobbs was, and I was instantly drawn into the drama. So, this was April 24 - anyone know the year this comic first came out?Thanks, BW, for all these years of enjoyment.

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    COWBOY7  over 14 years ago

    I had forgotten about this one also. And I have it, too!

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    I thought this arc involved a break-in.

    I guess we know where Calvin’s priorities are, don’t we? :)

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    MontanaLady  over 14 years ago

    I haven’t forgotten about this one…………I can’t remember it at all…………………..oh the horrors!!!!!!!!!1

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    mrsullenbeauty  over 14 years ago

    This seems really familiar …

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    Dino-1  over 14 years ago

    Poor Hobbes first he’s left home alone and then a stranger breaks in. I think both Calvin and Hobbes are going to need a good psychiatrist after this one!

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    zbjet  over 14 years ago

    Its the “Climax”, yay!

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I don’t remember this one at all.

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    Cymbol  over 14 years ago

    I don’t remember this one at all…does anyone remember when it ran last? I don’t know if I can wait for it all to play out. I really need to go back and find it! The absolute joy Calvin feels at being reunited with his best friend turns to mind numbing panic by the last frame and we’re all going along for the ride. I think I may need gravol!

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    Dec Monk, which side of the window is the glass?

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    a55bruce  over 14 years ago

    April 29, 1989

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    g.iangoodson  over 14 years ago

    Hey , don’t spoil it for the newbies!

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    Ooops! Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I don’t know this one. I hope Hobbes is alright.

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    avarner  over 14 years ago

    As I recall, the story plays out that they find the burglars dropped their loot & left in a hurry….

    Obviously scared off by something.

    Perhaps a VERY large cat ??

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    Cameloo  over 14 years ago

    Well Dad, don’t you want to take back your comment?

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    davecancer  over 14 years ago

    You guys spoil it for the New readers #%3@*

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    Ray_C  over 14 years ago

    Yukoner, from what Calvin says in the third frame, I’d say the glass is on the inside and so the window was broken into, not out of. Not that I would hold Bill W. to such literalness.

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    nathlar  over 14 years ago

    geigy - The copyright date in the second panel was 1989. Does that seem about right?

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    mike.firesmith  over 14 years ago

    It’s sad when they discover it was Susie who broke in.

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    mike.firesmith  over 14 years ago

    Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy!

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    Sylvannis  over 14 years ago

    Flag the Spam!!!!!!!!!

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    fran650  over 14 years ago

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    Aww, the adrenalin rush. Hang on Hobbes help is on the way!

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    spacey7000  over 14 years ago

    i remember this one…

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    spacey7000  over 14 years ago

    sylvannis i flagged the spam

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    Burglars?….Tiger on the loose?…. Be still oh my heart!

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    ninmas  over 14 years ago

    oooh! this is a good one……..

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    cleokaya  over 14 years ago

    Poor Calvin he is so frantic.

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    ratlum  over 14 years ago

    This could be bad.

    I wonder if this is were they got the idea for the movie Home Alone

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    APPLESCRUFF  over 14 years ago

    I remember this one. Nothing scarier than discovering your home has been broken into & the prospect of something happening to your best friend. Poor Calvin. :(

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    chinook2  over 14 years ago

    OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh $#!+…

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    Paula  over 14 years ago

    I just went through 5 big Calvin books and couldn’t find this series. Like I have nothing else to do :o) The artwork back in 87 was less detailed.

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    WickedCrazy  over 14 years ago

    The feelings of horror and violation that are experienced from a break in are unimaginable until you’ve had it happen to your home. My poor cat wouldn’t come out of hiding for hours.I thought he was dead.

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    I seem to remember Watterson saying that this unusual storyline was inspired by an actual burglary to their own home. Deals with some feelings.

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    Puddleglum2  over 14 years ago

    Is it possible that Calvin broke the window for revenge while his parents were occupied with the luggage in the car? I haven’t seen it before; it’s just a guess. I wouldn’t put it past Calvin! He can be vindictive.

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    Puddleglum2  over 14 years ago

    Even if Hobbes did it, it was Calvin! …but it seems as if Hobbes would have used the door, unless he was angry for having been “Left Behind”.

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    browngsa  over 14 years ago

    This story (as well as the previous stories) is included in The Indispensable Calvin & Hobbes, pages 71-76.

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    Wiseguy411  over 14 years ago

    I would flag the spam, but the loyal readers beat me to it. Curse a 7:00 AM tee time …

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 14 years ago

    WickedCrazy said: The feelings of horror and violation that are experienced from a break in are unimaginable until you’ve had it happen to your home. My poor cat wouldn’t come out of hiding for hours. I thought he was dead.

    I know what you mean. It’s just a complete violation!!!!!

    This happened to us on December 19, 1993 (minus the cat part. Luckily, we didn’t have any pets back then to be traumatized by the incident). It was a Sunday evening and we had just returned from an early Christmas get-together at my parents’ house because my husband and I were heading out of town in a couple of days to visit my in-laws for Christmas. It was a horrible, sickening sight to walk into when we got home that night — the house was completely ransacked … personal belongings thrown all over the place as they searched for anything and everything valuable to steal … money, guns, and other fairly expensive household items were gone … so was jewelry given to me by my husband and parents over the years for birthdays, anniversaries, etc. — and almost all the Christmas presents left under the tree that we were taking with us on our trip were gone too.

    We called the police (for all the good it did) but they were less than helpful about it; they barely managed to come out and take a report and that was it. I highly doubt they even bothered to look for the people that did it. Meanwhile, we had to run around like crazy and buy all the exact same gifts again we had already purchased because Christmas was 6 days away and we were getting ready to leave town!

    To say that it was the worst Christmas EVER would be a huge understatement!!!!!

    Meanwhile, to add insult to our injury, the insurance company gave us the complete runaround, refusing to pay our claim without making us jump through a bunch of hoops, and just, in general, treating us as though WE were the criminals! We even had to produce our medical and financial records proving we weren’t sick or broke and had staged a fake “break-in” in order to collect the insurance money! We had been with that company for years (diligently paying our premiums on time and never missing a payment) and had never once in all that time made a claim of any kind with them. But when it came time to have to do it, all of a sudden WE were the ones trying to screw THEM! It was completely unbelievable!!!!! It probably took a year for it all to finally get settled. Unfortunately, once we started listing everything stolen and added it all up, what we had to take from the insurance company didn’t really come anywhere near what we lost. We had under-insured some things and other things weren’t insured at all! You just never think to update insurance policies every single time you buy something a little bit expensive (like a new t.v. or a pair of diamond earrings, for example). Poor planning on our part back then, I must admit. But we keep on top of that stuff now. Everything is insured for its replacement value should anything like that ever happen again (which we hope and pray it never does).

    (On a side note: we went with another insurance carrier after that and got a security alarm system installed (wish we had done that before the break-in!) and have lived here without another single problem ever since.)

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    khpage  over 14 years ago

    Gretchensmom - a horrendous experience, to be sure. It is happening to so many people across the country that the police can scarcely keep up with it. They simply make a record of it, and that’s it. The whole thing is driven by drugs, not just in this country but all over the world. You have my utmost sympathy, as I too have experienced a break-in, in this instance my car. Not only was mine broken into, but a neighbor’s car was also-they tore the entire dashboard apart trying to get the stereo out of it. Another neighbor had theirs stolen and then used in a bank robbery. So much for living in “modern” times, as Calvin and his family are now finding out….

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    Dino-1  over 14 years ago

    This isn’t funny but helpful info if you’re going away on vacation. Get timers from the hardware store and put on on every lamp in the house and set to different times to make it look like someone is moving around the house at night. Never leave outside lights on because that’s a red flag that you’ve gone out! Remember to cancel the newspaper and have the post office hold your mail if no one can pick these up for you. Always leave info with a next door neighbor of a number to reach you at in case of any suspicious activity around your house and a leave them a key to feed pets and water plants etc. I always give this info to anyone I know, you can never be too safe!

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    pattybf  over 14 years ago

    I empathize with all of you who have been robbed. Our house was broken into a few years ago during the day. We would not have come home from work until a number of hours later but I was going with my husband to the doctor because of a cancer scare and we both left work early only to find the house ransacked. When the detectives came, they looked at the bedroom first (drawers pulled out, clothing and everything else from the drawers strewn everywhere) and they actually asked me if the room usually looked like this!! I couldn’t believe it. We, too, installed an alarm system after that and, thank heavens, have had no more problems and have not had to deal with stupid detectives either.

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    mrprongs  over 14 years ago

    Some guard tiger.

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    And speaking of violations…I just flagged three more pieces of spam.

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    James Lindley Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I just flagged 3 of them for spam too.

    I’ve been through this, coming home and finding the house broken into. The burglars used the pillow cases from our bed to carry jewelry and other property. Not only did they steal things of financial value, but also a lockbox that had vital records.

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    zerotsm  over 14 years ago

    I guess I was always lucky when I had the apartment, it never got broken into, even when I was away a lot (I did put 2 lights on timers). When I bought my first house in So Calif, the first thing I did was install a central station burglar alarm. In the three years I had that house, somebody did try to break in while I was gone and the alarm did it’s job; they ran off as soon as it started making noise without taking anything (but the cops did not get there fast enough to catch the perps)

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