Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 17, 2019

Calvin, don’t take out your anger on this kid.

Hey, kid yelling at Calvin, let Calvin mope.

While Calvin has this kid’s attention, he should make him steal the truck from Moe for him.

Calvin is not on a swing – but a round-about.

It’s logical, the more the unbalance in power, the more the underdog realizes he has but ONE shot at revenge!!! (Maybe I shouldn’t have said"shot")

Reverse psychology won’t work on Moe, Calvin.

Relax Calvin, you can just send your friend Hobbes to go get your truck back, right?

Calvin, your mistake was leaving it to Moe’s conscience. He doesn’t have one.

Calvin, Moe will tire of it and you will get it back.

The swing is serving a different purpose for Calvin right now, kid.

Ahhh a rarity… a kid other than Calvin, Susie or Moe.

To have a bullied kid stand up to the bully is a nice dream. Sometimes the parents have to get involved. The fact that Moe has gotten away with his actions for all of these years, without any adult intervention, is unbelievable.

I bet he could whip the kid in the last panel

What’s the new kids name? . . . Stinky!

Calvin must live in Seattle. That looks like Bill Gates behind him.

Moe plays with toy trucks?

Moe comes over to offer a “talk” to the kid pestering Calvin.

Now Calvin will fight! ;o}

this is the sort of time mom should step in ’where’s the truck you took to school? it was your favorite"

Calvin. Tell your dad. He should go to school and straighten it out. When our kids took stuff to school to play with, or for show and tell, or even their shoes and backpacks, we always sewed or painted a 4 digit code on everything not in an obvious place. If some one stole it or took it we had a letter from our parents sealed in an envelope to hand to the teacher proving it was ours. All of our thieves always got caught and expelled or their parents were brought in. We didn’t take any bullying. We had friends that could get together in mass and confront anyone. We weren’t bullies, mostly geeks, but we always won and they knew it and left us alone.

That’s exactly how I felt after the 2016 election.

Life 101. Get used to it.

Calvin needs to make friends with an even bigger kid.

Calvin’s version of Peppermint Patty or the Little Redheaded girl?

Regardless of Moe, Calvin realizes a toy truck isn’t worth a broken body. Still, Moe should have long ago been incarcerated for beating up Calvin in the past. Or hung above a pit of alligators. Either one.

I don’t understand why Calvin didn’t go straight to a teacher. That’s what I would have done.

“‘It was hell,’ recalls former child.” —B. Kliban

I wonder how Calvin will react just off screen to the right of the last panel. Does he respond well to what he just tried?

> You’re the one who has to live with yourself!Unfortunately, sociopaths feel no guilt or shame.

Moe grew up to be Donald Trump…

You know..from the back Calvin looks remarkably like Charlie Brown’s summer camp bunk mate " Shut-up and Leave Me Alone."

Moe is all brawn and no brain. You can’t fix stupid.