Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 20, 2015

It’s that dang evolution!

It’s so nice, Calvin in all the leafage!

Revenge of the Sphere, Part I.

Has Dad lost his dentures?

Just keep Hobbes around to keep the ball in line. He can bite it much harder than it can bite you.

JAWS 17

I hope the tree isn’t upset that Calvin was using a bat made out of another tree.Calvin claims that the ball is alive, but his dad thinks Calvin has really gone out on a limb this time.To view the following strips in the archive and help GoComics generate revenue, please click on the blue archive links below. To view the strips directly, click on the images below or stretch them.Peanuts (November 11, 1977)Mutts (April 8, 2001)Pearls Before Swine (August 21, 2011)

@LeadingEdge: I thought that everyone’s avatar showed how they actually look. Mine is a selfie.

Just like bees, wasps and ants, they don’t bite – they sting…

@HobbesMy fav Peanuts strip goes back to the 60’s or maybe 70’s.Linus is working his heart out building a snowman while Snoopy watches. Finally he lies back exhausted & says something like “Snoopy, you’re lucky you are a dog & don’t have to do this.” Snoopy’s thought response is “It never occurred to me that it was compulsory”. Any chance that your encyclopedic knowledge of all great comics would include that one?

Apologies to GoComics & other readers for the irrelevant comment.

The people with the butterfly nets need to come before Calvin hurts someone.

@LeadingEdge: They both have that questioning look on their face.

Maybe it is my twisted mind, but when I read today’s strip, I thought Calvin was playing Pac-Man ball…

My avatar is what some random guy at Knotts Berry Farm thinks I look like.

Calvin has AAA and that should take care of it, but he’s going batty!

@GNeilPh: I’m at work right now, but I can post that Peanuts strip for you tomorrow.We taste testers have gotta keep things moving here at the tuna factory……..

I would be mad too if I got WHACKED around all day by some old bat.

@Hobbes,“It’s a lover’s question.” “The look of love” I’m in good company. There’s no question about it!

@Hobbes,“…Calvin has really gone out on a limb this time.”Calvin is ‘up a tree’ trying to figure it out. He needs re’leaf’.

I thought I had an original avatar so I had it patented by Calvin’s Dad. Apparently, there’s a question about whether Dad is legitimate or even real. Maybe he’s just a cartoon character.

I have proof that the ball could kill me!

Attaaack… of the killer – oh, wait, that’s not right…

Sadly, there are a great many such kids (in real life) who suffer from all manner of weird and dangerous hallucinations (like this one). Very likely, many of them fell prey to LSD, or some other such drug (as young experimenters, back in the late 1960s). Now deceased (from that particular incarnation — through suicide, in many cases), they have since reincarnated again; these hallucinatory experiences picking up precisely where they left off!

Now, of course, all of this is only a possibility; but for me at least, the message is clear: to stay out of the drug scene! It just isn’t worth it. Especially when a person has everything to live for; why throw it all away?

Always avoid a ball with teeth.

Easier said than done of course!

xxx

Because the baseball has red….. teeth?

Maybe this strip is where Stephen King got the idea for the Langoliers.

Some trees do bite Calving, take rose bushes for instants or stinging nettles…