Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 22, 2024

How combustible is a toboggan?…..

Just hope that enough of your neighbours are burning leaves to appease the snow demons.

Do that, Calvin. Hopefully, the demons will be appeased, and there will be plenty of snow to make your monster creations—that drive Dad nuts, LOL.

I remember when I grew up on a farm in the 60s and ‘70s we used to dispose of newspapers and other paper products by burning them in a large barrel. I’m pretty sure that’s not allowed anymore.

Dad is right. My Jesus is better than your Jesus, and my superstition is better than yours.

Come on daddy. Burning leaves is build character see.

Dalvin is sliding into cultism.

Tomorrow’s reprint will also have a theological theme. Calvin and Hobbes will be discussing Heaven.

Alice says you should flush ice cubes.

In the 50’s Leaf burning was done all over, T smell of burning leaves was as much a part of fall as halloween and Thanksgiving

Gotta admit. Accidentally setting your toboggan on fire and trying to put it out does build character.

Calvin just wants to ensure plenty of snow to build Snow Goons.

That stupid dork probably introduced the legislation to ban gas stoves, too.

Appease them with child sacrifices. Dad and Mom would probably be onboard sometimes.

O Toboggan! I adore thee! My sled! My Master! I want no other!

All the carbon in the leaves was taken out of the atmosphere, so burning leaves is carbon neutral.

Here in New Jersey, we burned many leaves this year.

Hobbes is under the leaves

Ah, paganism..Now that the Election is over – let’s get the COMMENTS back on political strips. I suggest users here start contacting Go Comics through the “contact” us for under the “Feedback/Suggestions” subject.

And a warm winter is a bad thing…because?

See? SEE! Calvin is so in simpatico with The Count in the Liberal Burning Leaf Liberal Media Fake News Conspiracy Theory Crisis (aka LBLLMFNCTC)! Liberals are depriving children of wonderful childhood memories. God Bless America! Burn Leaves Not Cities! God Bless America, Again!

The grasp on Theology is correct, all he needs to figure out, is the FACT that it is NOT REAL.

One superstition is as good as another.

Don’t let that kid anywhere near matches.

When I was a teen, I lived in a house which was perched in the middle of an inclined property. When it snowed sufficiently, I’d climb up to the front and sled down, taking care not to run into the house along the way.

In the next few minutes, we are about to be ‘serenaded’ by three back pack leaf blowers with about the same decibel rating as a passenger jet but in much lower tones. Both wife and I are stuck in house and the very low bass vibs make us seasick. Wish we could find a place to go out of the cold but we’d have to be there most of the day. And even the library is not that comfortable.

Either way, his reasoning is scary.

The snow demons come and go on their own schedules.

Calvin is correct. THAT will certainly do it.

Burning leaves does not pollute toxic anything. Steer clear of smoke. Lol

Don’t set the toboggan on fire, Calvin.

burning leaves is more natural and enriching to the environment versus burying fiberglass windmill blades in landfills or scooping out the shards of those blades that nature destroys from lightening strikes or strong winds…

Growing up in the North, we LOVED warm winters…

Maybe if Dad wouldn’t explain stuff to Calvin in such outlandish ways he might have a better grasp of some of these things.

His theology will become clear when he paints that pentagram on his bedroom floor

Pollution is what causes warm winters.

Science….look up how to make snow!

Don’t risk a warm winter, better ask Hobbes for advice.

sitting at the top of the hil with my sled surrounded by tealights. will it snow? almost December and none sticking around. soon I will sacrifice a squirrel, who has been in my feeders. that should do it.

Stupid kid. What you need to do is flush an ice cube down the toilet.

Just do what Alice from Cul de Sac does- flush ice cubes down the toilet

Burning leaves is ambrosia – not pollution.

They stopped burning leaf piles before I was born, and I am nearing fifty. I think Dad has a lot to teach Calvin. If they both make the effort.

Several weeks ago I had a pleasant conversation with the person who takes care of our neighbor’s lawn.

Yesterday I am in my den and I hear him in my neighbor’s yard with his leaf blower. After a while, I thought it was louder than it should be, so I looked out and he was doing MY yard!

He said he enjoyed our conversation and wished me an early Merry Christmas.

People can be surprisingly kind.

In my area, I think you need a special permit to burn leaves. And it does pollute and it smells awful. In my family we don’t burn leaves; sure, we often rake them and put them in bags or barrels for the yard waste guys to pick up, or if they’re spread all across a lawn, we can run the lawn mower and shred the leaves with them! The small bits of leaf left over are also good for the soil.

Also, it looks like we might have kind of a warm winter in my area, no thanks to Climate Change and Global Warming.

“Here, Calvin, take this rake. The snow demons love a good raking.”

His meteorology is questionable, but his theology is solid.

one of my fav’ of all the years of C&H

I believe not all the angels are in Heaven, some were sent to “the other place”, Twilight Zone THIS IS THE OTHER PLACE!!!

He does, however, have a fine sense of ritual.

I don’t know about that, I suspect his grasp is more correct than than the “norm”.

I was once in a spelldown and was given the word “toboggan”. I got as far as T-O-B and then there was a long pause as I considered whether the double consonant was the B or the G. I finally did get it right but it was more a lucky guess than actual knowledge.