Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 07, 2019

Three pages of Dick & Jane can be tedious.

Is the Stupendous Man theme based on Ride of the Valkyries?

Calvin, it’s not War and Peace you’re reading, or is it?

This should be good.

This is the moment when he should take his meds to stabilize him!!

Calvin would really be bugged out if those were three pages from “Scientific American.” They use a smaller typeface and one needs to think about what one has read. It’s good for exercising the brain.

Hope Stupendous Man comes out of the closet!

Intro to another story arc, I’m guessing?

If the goal is to both read and understand, some math books are like that.

I see bad things coming .

…and another visit to the principal .

Oh boy… here we go.

Looks like the Superman theme (Reeves era)

One sort of wonders what Stupendous Man thinks about studying whatever subject that is.

That’s it, Cal! Good ol’ Stupendous Man will find a way to lick this problem… :P

Big bad reading is no match for Stupendous Man!

Stupendous Man: the world’s most inept superhero!

You would think Mom and Dad would have Calvin read the book somewhere other than his room… somewhere they can keep an eye on him.

Stupendous Man is not so stupendous.

Reading 3 pages was never a problem. WRITING 3 pages, now that was undoable!

Come on Calvin. Reading builds character.

I’d like to see Bizarro Stupendous Man.

Actually Calvin is highly intelligent with a off the chart creativity level, similar to Einstein. The problem is traditional schools cannot cope with highly intelligent people like him.

This was made even worse by “No Child Left Behind” which treated children as if they all had the same potential and wound up dumbing things down for everybody.

Stupendous Man and his alter ego “Stupid Man”! ;o]

Who can read this dreck?

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”

Would you make up your mind and get on with the story?

You know what would sell it? A cape and a sidekick named Tiger-Boy

And… there goes those three whole pages down the tubes.

Calvin has a severe “Attention deficit disorder”!

Personification of ADHD. My Dad, me and my kids. And I………

Uh oh…

Wait till you have to WRITE three pages someday soon…

There goes the promise to read through 3 pages. My kid is in competition to Calvin and I am scared.