Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 05, 2018

And then they blame Calvin when he fails a science test.

Calvin, if the sun went from west to east then night would become morning and morning would become night. (I was going to use vice versa but I figured Calvin wouldn’t understand.)

I remember asking my dad the same question. He pointed west and said “Thataway.”

He wasn’t wrong…

Can’t wait for Calvin to ask Miss Wormwood what solar wind is.

My son very quickly learned to be sceptical about anything his old dad (me) told him. He now extends this healthy scepticism to everything he hears.

I always enjoyed these little father/son chats between Calvin & his dad. Dad was shameless.

wow this is good

Oh his sweet little lies ;p

He is putting his own spin on things that is what dads do

Okay Mom, let’s hear you explain it!

It can be hell for a while when a kid first discovers the word “why.” Dad handles it especially well. He gets his vengeance in the here and now.

So that is why Calvin is such an oddball.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

No wonder Calvin gets bad grades at school.

Go Dad!!

I had an uncle like that. When I was a kid and got my first pair of cowboy boots he explained to me that a real cowboy always wears one pants leg tucked in and the other is left out. I fell for it and went to school the next day like that. Needless to say I never believed a word he said since. To his credit, however, he did teach me how dress out and prepare rattlesnake tempura style when out mending fences and tending cattle. Came in handy when in the field in the Army. The guys appreciated it as a relief from MRE’s.

Why doesn’t the sun shine at night, when we need the light, and not during the day when we don’t need it?

My dad wasn’t too different from Calvin’s dad.

I didn’t know Calvin’s dad was Elon Musk! This explains why so much of his stuff is failing!

If this were being drawn today, his dad would be saying “climate change”…

So Calvin grew up to be a Flat-Earther…

Sounds like something Lucy van Pelt might teach to Linus….

The sun doesn’t set. Mother Earth get miffed and turns her back to it.

Hey I’m a smartarse and I’d tell my boys stuff like this. Like when we passed by a prison and they asked why there were horses around it. I told them that the either the horses kicked someone and killed them or they helped a human commit a crime…

Now I’m confused. Does or does not the sun do what pops says? LOL!

Boy, Dad sure knows a lot of sciency stuff.

To recharge its batteries behind the moon. When they mess their schedule up and do it during the day, it’s a solar eclipse!

Dad should tell Calvin about the giant snake, Apophis, that pursues the sun all night long. To get from west to east at night, Ra takes the sun in a boat on a river under the earth but he has to fight off the snake. He changes into the Boat of a Million Years to take the sun up into the sky at dawn. Now that’s the mythology that Calvin (or Spiff) could really get into!

I think it’s just because, like me, the sun is old and set in its ways.

Dad is a sort of scientific fictionalist.

Why does Calvin’s dad do this? Seems a bit mean to me. The lessons Calvin is learning (dishonest answers to honest questions) are not healthy ones.

GoComics, you’ve made every comic page completely useless with today’s update. Switch it back or I am finding another source for my morning funnies.

I’m still waiting for an explanation from flat earthers why the level of illumination is different 12,500 mi/km east or west from them..

Love the “Dad-explains” strips. Dad definitely has an out-of-the-box imagination ! I guess, to be wrong every single time Calvin asks a scientific question, dad needs to know the right answer. Buu..ut, this definitely needs to go into the rule book of “How not to raise a kid”