Almost 60 years ago the place where I grew up was out in the boonies. Right across the road that ran past our house was a huge high line tower carrying power lines to the surrounding community. I climbed up to the second tier with a blanket parachute secured to me with a rope harness. See where this is going? This was back when they used plaster for cast. My knees still remind me when the weather is damp of my foolishness. Just lucky I landed on my feet instead of my head…Funny thing. 30 years after the blanket fiasco I paid $150 to jump out of a plane. Lucky for me the parachute I had this time was a little better quality than my blanket model :-()
Gosh, this is the kind of thing that my friends and I did all the time. Making rockets and bombs, BB gun fights, hunting baby gators in the swamps, pouring gasoline down a storm drain—-and lighting it, swimming where there were sharks and “stingarees”, driving little boats with big motors—-and flipping them, riding our bikes off of the ends of docks. I’m sure there were more like this, but I can’t think of them right now.
Todays strip would have been even greater in colour. Watterson would use ideas like this in his later Sunday strips when he no longer had to work to the established Sunday layout.
Calvin shouldn’t take pointers from Hobbes. He’ll only get deeper into the mess he’s in & he can’t blame Hobbes for that like he always does. They know better!!!
BE THIS GUY over 5 years ago
Consider yourself lucky that you live in northern Ohio; all the cliffs are pretty small.
Watcher over 5 years ago
The majesty of Calvin takes to the air only to realize there are no pillows on the ground to break is flight.
codycab over 5 years ago
Looks like another thing Wile E. Coyote tried…and failed.
Farside99 over 5 years ago
It’s sometimes a wonder that Calvin survived this long.
Templo S.U.D. over 5 years ago
Let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest high…. uh-huh
in.amongst over 5 years ago
edgy!
coomback over 5 years ago
Mean ol’ Mr. Gravity ..
Bilan over 5 years ago
Isn’t Hobbes supposed to be the voice of reason?
Triker2011 over 5 years ago
Almost 60 years ago the place where I grew up was out in the boonies. Right across the road that ran past our house was a huge high line tower carrying power lines to the surrounding community. I climbed up to the second tier with a blanket parachute secured to me with a rope harness. See where this is going? This was back when they used plaster for cast. My knees still remind me when the weather is damp of my foolishness. Just lucky I landed on my feet instead of my head…Funny thing. 30 years after the blanket fiasco I paid $150 to jump out of a plane. Lucky for me the parachute I had this time was a little better quality than my blanket model :-()
Chithing Premium Member over 5 years ago
I used to have one of those bat kites. The string broke during recess and I watched it sail out over the harbor.
enigmamz over 5 years ago
Don’t worry, those thorny bushes will break your fall!
Darrell Patton over 5 years ago
It’s never the fall, it’s the sudden stop at the end that gets you!
johndifool over 5 years ago
…or a bigger kite.
aerotica69 over 5 years ago
Looks like Myfanwy on Torchwood.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 5 years ago
I have noticed that ‘go for broke’ very often means a broken bone. Enjoy your flight little boy.
A Hip loving Canadian... over 5 years ago
Moral of the story: Never let a tiger have a say in how high a cliff you jump off of.
masingermo over 5 years ago
I had one of those kites as a child in the ’60s.
jpayne4040 over 5 years ago
All of the broken bones and the impending hospital stay will be so majestic too, Calvin!
rshive over 5 years ago
Perhaps a larger kite would help.
Ron Nacker over 5 years ago
I’m suprised Calvin hasn’t broken an arm or a leg by now.
chick485 over 5 years ago
Gosh, this is the kind of thing that my friends and I did all the time. Making rockets and bombs, BB gun fights, hunting baby gators in the swamps, pouring gasoline down a storm drain—-and lighting it, swimming where there were sharks and “stingarees”, driving little boats with big motors—-and flipping them, riding our bikes off of the ends of docks. I’m sure there were more like this, but I can’t think of them right now.
Indianapolis Smith over 5 years ago
Maybe if he got some swallows, they could carry him. They do pretty good with coconuts.
DCBakerEsq over 5 years ago
I prefer being majestic in a commercial airliner.
Mediatech over 5 years ago
Extinction event, imminent…
Calvinist1966 over 5 years ago
Todays strip would have been even greater in colour. Watterson would use ideas like this in his later Sunday strips when he no longer had to work to the established Sunday layout.
zeexenon over 5 years ago
Flap your arms, boy!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Some of his best stuff are his dinosaurs. I’ve got a book of his Sundays which many of them are dino related and in glorious color.
Concretionist over 5 years ago
I’m thinking he needed a bigger kite.
poopsypoo Premium Member over 5 years ago
Calvin shouldn’t take pointers from Hobbes. He’ll only get deeper into the mess he’s in & he can’t blame Hobbes for that like he always does. They know better!!!