Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 13, 2017

“The stuff that dreams are made of.”

“It was a brunette. A brunette to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

Fans of the classics here, I see.

You’ll be sorry Mom, when he takes his hat off. You’ll want him to put it back on again.

…of giving Calvin bad dinner.

I wish we could still “Like” comments! Y’all are on fire today!Love, love, love this strip, esp. panel 2. But why are there the shadows of bars on Calvin in Panel 1? I’m probably being dense…Mom will certainly put him on house arrest when he takes the hat off.

“Tracer Bullet”, private eye. Somehow I managed to completely miss this version of Calvin before today. Love it. And the patter.

Priceless. Love it.

My hero. Just love those old film noirs, and parodies thereof, like Leslie Nielsen in the first “Naked Gun”. . .“She was the kind of woman who’d make you drop down to your knees and thank God you were a man.”

Very funny.

One of the few regrets I ever had with C&H was that he never used Tracer Bullet as much as Stupendous Man and Spaceman Spiff.

Calvin is about to find out how pushy this dame can get.

This is simply brilliant

Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett LIVE!!!

Best one yet

Tomorrow: “Here comes the hurricane.”

One of the most common areas of etiquette completely forgotten by people of today (young and old alike): hat etiquette.

Wow, great comments.

No one seems to be complaining about a kid talking about smoking and drinking.

TMC is now doing these movies on Sunday at 10:00a Can’t wait.

Fedoras, love fedoras.

This is not from any Noir, but one of the most memorable comments about a woman I’ve ever heard is “Her parents should have won the Nobel Prize for Architecture!”

Moms are known to be pushy, especially concerning Manners!

Remember when movie dialog was pure unadulterated fun. Now we have Spaceman Spiff without the humor.

Hmm. I don’t like this persona of Calvin. Just doesn’t suit him.

xxx

This was the first appearance of Tracer Bullet. I loved it even before I had any idea of its status as a parody.

Man, the Tracer Bullet segments were so great. Any time he talked about “dames” was amazing- “brunette, as usual”.

OMG