Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 27, 2019

What are you saying about your wife?

At least Dad had fun much to his family’s chagrin.

Some people just don’t call it “the great outdoors”.

it won’t be long before another arc comes up. a great one.

No respect. Children get no respect, right Calvin?

Qualis pater , talis filius

great idea!!! then puthim up for adoption!!!

have the DNA tested and then appear on “The Maury Povich Show”?

If you can’t believe your wife, who can you believe, right?

If Dad had tried this camping stunt with Reba, she would have smacked him upside the head.

There’s a Sunday strip due to be reprinted soon – I think it will be tomorrow’s reprint – where Calvin and Dad have quite a good time together. Like the camping story arcs, it was based on Bill Watterson’s memories of his Dad so it’s good to know that he has some happy memories of him although he relied mainly on bad memories for comedy effect as has been the case during the past two weeks.

Calvin’s carrying his own sleeping bag. Either that’s not Calvin or he’s really anxious to leave.

Dad’s lucky he didn’t just get a tent pole upside his head!

Kids mostly change, when they grow up!! This is the hope!!

I’ve made the hopeful mailman joke many times. But it appears I’m responsible for my two.

From the Science Daily…“Media and popular scientific literature often claim that many alleged fathers are being cuckolded into raising children that biologically are not their own,” said Maarten Larmuseau of KU Leuven in Belgium. “Surprisingly, the estimated rates within human populations are quite low—around 1 or 2 percent.”

DNA tests are cheap. Go for it.

“Take my word for it” spoken a million times to the destruction of that many men’s futures.

He’s lucky that that’s all the reaction he got from his wife.

Because my boys can be such little demons and I was always an angel (if you believe that…) I’ve often told my wife that the boys came from telepathic in vitro fertilization. She claims there is no such thing.

Hey Buddy (as I’m tooting my horn and leaning out my car window), you’re in MY campsite!

I thought for a long time that I was a cuckoo because both my parents were RH+ whilst I am Rh-. Then I found out about genotypes and phenotypes, where it is possible for both parents to have the recessive Rh- factor and pass it to a child while being Rh+.

I still find it hard to believe they’re related by blood.

I have heard it said, “Motherhood is a matter of certainty; fatherhood is a matter of faith.”

I suspect that Mom sees some things about Dad (which don’t necessarily show up in the strip ) that pretty much match what she sees in Calvin.

Heh, Calvin sounds a lot like a teenager in the third panel! And so ends the final camping trip story arc in “Calvin and Hobbes”’s run…

Buford T. Justice: There is no way, NO way that you came from my loins. The first thing I’m gonna do when I get home is punch your momma in the mouth.

She would know.

I wonder if it ever occurs to dad to ask mom what SHE would like to do on a vacation??? Humph! Men…..

Weren’t you there when he cam out?

Hmmm. I wonder now why my daughter never completed the DNA test I sent her. Or maybe she did…

It’s the stork’s fault.

Dad needs to send mom to a spa, and Calvin to space camp. And go ‘wilderness’ by himself.