Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 28, 2018

The neighbors are calling the fire department and children services.

I wish it would rain, then you’d get your bath Calvin!

Don’t make a sound. At all.

Calvin is TOO good at hide and seek.

sooner or later, Calvin, you’ll have to go into the house once your stomach starts growling and Hobbes mockingly eats your requested snack.

I find it hard to sleep on the roof in November.

Or Calvin may question it after he finds out he’s racked up 6 hours in the timeout chair—-and counting!

Sooner than later, you’ll have a few questions to answer yourself, Calvin!

“Sooner or later” Mom will grab you by the back of the shorts and lift. You will be on tippy-toes. Your voice will be squeaky until your mid-twenties and you will understand the term “moose-knuckles” (albeit in your case junior-size)… and you will ask “… is this really worth the trouble”.

Is it just me, or does Calvin’s mom’s mouth look enormous in panel 3?

I actually saw my next door neighbor’s kid doing this. I had a debate between my child self and adult self over whether to go next door and let the parents know. Adult self won out.

I never could understand why little boys hate baths so much!

Dad stopped wondering a loooooong time ago.

What came first Growing Pains or this as far as kids sitting on the roof?

Until Mom closes theopen window and it starts raining.

Sooner or later Calvin will have to question whether the hell he catches when she finds him is worth the trouble.

Shouldn’t he be a little ways away from the window?

OMG. I was just thinking of this exact strip the other day!

And at some point she’s going to question whether his continued existence is an imperative. (btw – anyone notice Calvin never got a sibling?)

My wife does the same thing when I try to get her into the bathtub with me.

Calvin youre the one who is going to wonder if it was worth it

Or whether YOU are worth the trouble!

Somebody needs a really good whuppin!

Sooner or later Calvin is going to have to question whether the consequences were worth the cause…

In time the smell will give him away.

This one reminds me of another “C&H” strip where Mom keeps telling Calvin he has to take a bath, but she can’t find him. Then the last panel shows Calvin saying “She’ll never find me here”, while he’s lying in the bathtub. Fun stuff.

This reminds me of my favorite US Senator, a rare and funny insight into a good political brain. (No, I won’t name him, as that’s not the point.)