Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 18, 2018

So, Calvin did a little redecorating.

Ok, it seems our friend LeadingEdge has been banished by the GoComics deep state. Hopefully, they will see the error of their ways and allow LE to rejoin our community.

Well Calvin, maybe if you learned those 3 languages you would understand! Easy!

Is Hobbes sure they’re not just the same instructions in different languages? That’s how most instruction manuals work, as far as I know.

Should have asked your parents, Calvin.

Calvin, my boy. Not only does mom know the newspaper is not going anywhere, she wants it that way. That’s why it’s there.

Not in German? You’re lucky Hobbes.

Just don’t touch your face or your hair, Calvin!

I remember getting a ton of kits for WWII airplanes and warships. My attempts usually ended up like Cal’s and I had to have Mom help me finish. I did learn the difference between a Stuka and a Spitfire.

I love modern instruction books 20 pages of warnings and maybe a sentence or two on directions. Or they are written by Chinese with high school English and make no sense.

I’d rather deal with Chinglish than those stupid pictures.

ACME Model Kit Glue: Endorsed by Wyle E. Coyote…

Oh, man, I’d forgotten the childhood feeling of getting model glue on my fingers. “Like mozzarella cheese” indeed. And it would dry into a crust that wouldn’t wash off and stayed on your fingers for days. Kids today don’t know what they’re missing. Do they even still sell plastic models that people put together and paint as a hobby? I used to build dinosaurs and Star Trek space ships.

The worst was getting glue on the fuselage. Never came off and ruined the model!

YO, GOCOMICS, BRING BACK LEADING EDGE! HE DOES FAN ART, AND WE LOVE IT!

Gorram maroons…

Revell was always very good at clearly marking their models with an age minimum to stop this kinda problem. Never saw a model for any kid under 9 unless it was a ‘snap together’ model. .

Time to bring out the anti-aircraft guns.

A great advancement in model kit building was Testor’s introduction of liquid cement.Until you spilled the bottle.Actually, I had a lot more trouble with the decals than the cement.

Spiritus instituat: Is it just me, or in the 2nd panel is there a face on the instructions poking its tongue out?!

hi isaac ur famlit

Mom will be happy with this!!

Yes, worse than mozzarella cheese for sure. That comes off with water.

I remember my friend some years back who bought a bicycle made in China. On the outside of the container, these words of wisdom proclaimed: PLEASE ASSEMBLE BICYCLE BEFORE RIDING.

Breathe deep, Calvin. Breathe deep! There, better now? lol

That’s not how model glue texture works…

Calvin’s last line in this strip is one of the most all-time memorable from C&H for me.

As a kid, I didn’t realize that the parts in other languages were just translations of the same instructions.

This really is one of the more beautiful interpretations of their youthful innocence—thinking that the three languages are sequential portions of instruction and not just the same thing. Really one of my favorite CH strips, though there are many.

so uh, what’s this uh, new carpet?