Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 26, 2024

Somebody watched a rerun of To Serve Man instead of doing his homework.

Define “Special”, Susie. Or whoever else said that.

And you taste crunchy and good with ketchup…..

Creativity is seldom appreciated in it’s time

A figment of Calvin’s imagination talking directly to us! Imagine that!

Bill is great at drawing ugly faces. In fact, that’s probably how Calvin looks IRL, after Moe slugs him!!

A school for the GIFTED AND TALANTED

That would explain everything! Calvin is a Zimtokian.

Panel 4: what I’ve lobbied for all along!!!

Ah ha. So they are tasty as well as decorative.

Watterson should have developed this topic which Susie (or whomever) suggested. A good arc would have been Calvin (along with his buddy Mo) taking a short bus to a “new” school on the other side of town where Calvin would meet a myriad of new characters.

…or something.

Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!

30-years ago. I really miss this humor on the comics page!

That thought probably crossed the teacher’s mind very frequently over the year.

It would be hard to find a school that is special enough for Calvin.

…… With padded walls…..

No way is that Blor Utar???? Yeah we’re screwed that guy’s a beast.

Calvin must have inherited that one eye bulging from his mom (from a few days ago).

Why… just why…

In panel four, Calvin looks like one of the “hot rod monster” characters from the 60s.

Add screenwriter to one of the jobs an adult Calvin would have been great at.

SCREAMING FUNNY. Not just a smile. HAR-de HAR!

Most of your classmates probably don’t speak Zimtok, Calvin.

He should at least be in therapy.

Panel 4 says it all. Calvin gets my vote for most hideously deformed evil henchman.

That was one of the many problems with “mainstreaming” students.

Years later, Calvin gets a job writing for the Sci-Fi Channel.

Calvin doesn’t need a special school, he’s in a class by himself!

No special school would take him. Public school is stuck with him.

I drove a short bus on occasion…

LOL… Even his classmates know that Calvin isn’t ‘quite right’…

What if Calvin is already in a special school?

Curious what horror films Watterson watched to devise this story line

Mrs. Goth’s School for the Horribly Imaginative

Definitely one of the funniest show-and-tell strips! My brother and I like to do Blor-Utar’s voice as a rhythmic robotic monotone.

I’m sure his classmates are finding this presentation very edifying.

Calv’s just trying to prep the sheeple for NHI contact…

Midvale School for the Gifted and Talented. ;>)

LOL! He is “special” all right!

Boring aliens. What science fiction fans used to call BEMs. (Bug Eyed Monsters)

I’s still laughing. That was funny. That child is something different.

That school doesn’t take hopeless cases.

And if you think that’s scary, you should see what they’re like on Zimtok-6!

In Canada the differently abled went to special schools and many excelled with the individual learning. 20 years ago the local government decided they would do better in ‘regular’ schools. Now we have one teacher in every class like before but up to 4 teachers aids (keepers) in EVERY class trying to keep a lid on the disruption and violence from the special bus kids. The ordinary kids get no time with a teacher because every minute of class time is teaching or reteaching the special kids who cannot get what is going on. No one learns.