Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 17, 2016

Calvin’s next fantasy: He’s a bodyshop owner.

Mom is thwarting Calvin’s aspirations.

Do him paper cars mom, or invent something. I know I got entertained with paper toys I made myself. And Calvin, next time you play Giant, go face Godzilla! I would love to see that.

Lol Mom is making SURE she isn’t buying Calvin anymore toy cars. Is their money tight or something? Calvin And Hobbes strips look cleaner/neater in color. :) Great strip.

I miss the old Calvin and hobbes style of drawing sigh

A day in the life of a despot.

So, Calvin drinks the magic elixer and grows over 300 feet tall. And his clothes grow too by him drinking that stuff? Amazing!

where did mom get toy cars flimsy enough to be destroyed by stepping on them? you used to be able to seriously hurt dad;s feet when he stepped on your “carelessly” scattered toy cars.

Cars aren’t built like they used to be.

First of all, Calvin was a fly yesterday, giant today…I sense a pattern here.Second of all:

Who is “Mr. Monroe?”

Aaron Jerry (my 3 yr old-named after Jerry Garcia) loves to take apart cars and other small toys. He will smash them (or ask me to) if they cannot be disassembled. He wants to know how things work. I hope he doesn’t want to be an engineer when he grows up. We’ll go broke buying black, horn-rimmed glasses and pocket protectors.

Calvinzilla!

A good example of the bitter reality of using reality in your imaginary world. You can run out of real toys to pretend to destroy if you really destroy them while you are pretending.

“Stop that nonsense at once, or you’ll not be permitted to make any more planets!”

Gods, godesses are all mythological beings; Jesus wasn’t a myth…..he was a real being!

Uh oh, Calvin! Here comes Susie Derkins – “Twas Beauty killed the Beast…”

Just wait ’till Calvin encounters the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man…

Regarding “crunchable” toy cars, when I was Calvin’s age, we played with TootsieToy cars and trucks. There were many different models, all based upon current or previous actual vehicles. Here is one of a ‘35 Ford sedan:Another one based upon a ’55 Ford Customline:Still another based upon a ’60 Corvair:(Don’t tell Nader about this!)

Most were 3 to 6 inches long and by today’s standards, fairly flimsy! Just about anyone with leather soles could easily crush these things to smithereens!

A close friend who I played with “in the street” outside our homes, thought it would be fun to have a fire so I could use my Tonka pumper fire truck to put out the fire! To make a long story short, we dutifully set fire to our “shoebox” cardboard homes, with the cars parked in the garage (actually behind a flap we cut in the sides of the boxes).

Well, I did put out the fires with the little hose on the pumper fire truck, but we found out “metal” actually does burn (actually melt) and destroyed two of our little cars.

Ahhh… to be a kid again!

Red cars matter.

My Mom always bought me new cars even though I wrecked them by throwing rocks at them! (Anybody know the value of a 1950’s Dinky Toy with all the paint knocked off it?)

Spelled elixir wrong…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir