Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 06, 2019

The Batmobile also didn’t have a cassette player — maybe an 8-track — but not cassette player.

What if the city is in trouble during the day when Dad is just being Dad?

in the 2010s, the younger generation will wonder what a “cassette player” is

Boringman! And his sidekick, Notcalvin!

Try pushing random buttons on the car to see if they do anything.

Calvin is one lab accident away from being the next Joker.

When you were born, Dad gave up the adventurous and superhero life and passed it on to you, Spaceman Spiff and all your other personas.

The Dadmobile is in the Dadcave, down a long flight of steps below.

“It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s—SUPER LUDDITE!”

Dad will be one patently boring superhero!

With one flourish he can bring his fishing rod into play…

Of course, Dad just has to push a button and the car transforms into a lean, mean, crime-fighting machine!

Cleaning out clutter the other day, I found my old cassette to CD adapter. Remember those? They let you use a portable CD player with your car’s cassette player. Now it all seems quaint, but it hasn’t really been that long.

Not sure where I put my superhero costume. You may have heard of me: Forgetful Man. I think.

My car doesn’t have a cassette deck, or a CD player…

When I was a kid, my uncle’s car had a record player.

I can remember my cars that had them… I wonder what Calvin’s parents had in that tiny hatchback? AM/FM radio (not stereo)? Or even just an AM radio?

I can remember the only way to listen to audio CDs in my old car was to use a cassette adapter with the wire dragging out of the slot and out to the portable CD player on the seat. I still have a new, unused cassette adapter for my XM radio in my electronics drawer too… :-P

Psst, Calvin. Your mom dons a weird costume too. But your parents don’t do it to go out and fight crime.

This topic will be revisited!

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2015/03/22?ct=v&cti=1621572

Like many of us, Dad is boring and proud of it.

The batmobile doesn’t need a cassette player or 8-track it must have a high frequency radio with Bluetooth and wifi to connect to every radio and other device in Gotham so it basically can play any song Batman wants or link into any conversation from , police transmission to cell phones ECT.

I hooked a portable cassette player to the radio speaker, got the idea from a friend.

Being a mom has made me appreciate what a superhero my own mom was. (my dad was more like the villain, sorry)

Who needs a cassette deck when a whole orchestra follows you around playing something awesome by Hans Zimmer?

Hobbes, of course, immediately identifies the key issue…

this strip is from 1989

Superheroing doesn’t pay well…

A cassette deck! How cool!

It only looks like a car, press a button and it converts into a giant battle robot.

I can still remember the first car we got with a cassette deck, around 1997. But of course nowadays, that last line would be “I know. Ours doesn’t even have Bluetooth or USB connections!”

I’ve got a cassette deck in my 2003 Tacoma pick-up. I’ve even still got some cassettes.

My 85 GMC has a Premier Pioneer Am/Fm Auto Reverse cassette player with “Dolby” real High Tech ! Lots of cassettes to go with it.

One can only hope. :P

Mine doesn’t either.

Well, the car is in disguise, too

For the Green Hornet the Black Beauty was his car at night. He drove a convertible by day as Publisher Britt Reid. He parks. Sets the clamps then rotates it to get to the BB and drive out through the secret entrance into the night. So Calvin would never get to ride in the Black Beauty. What a car…

Strange how the little details reveal the age of the comic, even when the broad outline is timeless.

I enjoy reading old novels (crime noir, anyone?) from time to time… and often stumble over a passage where the author mentions the price of something: Breakfast, taxi-fare, a month’s rent. The story’s still as good as it ever was, after you step over the blip.

The Batmobile didn’t need a cassette player. Obviously Batman invented digital music way ahead of time. The proof is in the TV series. Every time the Batmobile zoomed down the street we’d hear “Da da da da da da da BAT MAN!”

Way ahead of his time.