Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 30, 2019

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    BE THIS GUY  about 5 years ago

    Is it also typed?

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 5 years ago

    Oh, Susie, don’t be such a chowder head when it comes to Calvin’s research.

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    codycab  about 5 years ago

    Calvin really bugs everyone. Maybe next time he should write about himself.

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    Watcher  about 5 years ago

    Don’t worry Calvin, Susie doesn’t have a clear plastic binder we all know you did not plagiarize.

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    retrocool  about 5 years ago

    this is as good as the insect project

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    wiatr  about 5 years ago

    The first time I saw one I told my mother we had a bird in the house. I must have been four.

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    The Calvinosaurus That Calvin Wanted To Discover  about 5 years ago

    Well at least he should get points for being time-efficient.

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    jmworacle  about 5 years ago

    Susie, don’t damage Calvin’s fragile self esteem. Eventually he’ll get it. By the time he reaches the age of retirement.

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    ellisaana Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Calvin meant to write – Bats scourge big bugs from the sky.

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    BigDaveGlass  about 5 years ago

    Should have kept quiet Susie, he would have found out the hard way, mind you, will he believe her?

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    jpayne4040  about 5 years ago

    According to Calvin, what’s in the report isn’t important. It’s what the report is in that counts! (yeah right)

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    ekw555  about 5 years ago

    maybe it’s an issue of interpreting the title.bats eat a LOT of bugs, so to bugs, they are the “scourge of the skies”

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    jel354  about 5 years ago

    One of this strip’s memorable catchphrases.

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    Purple People Eater  about 5 years ago

    Just go to some cave full of bats (not the Bat Cave, though) and let them fly around you for a while and see if they don’t bug you.

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    cubswin2016  about 5 years ago

    I bet that the principal was busy on that day.

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    NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 5 years ago

    That phrase will go down in history along with other great quotes!

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    DanFlak  about 5 years ago

    Susie, eventually you will learn that with some people, you can’t tell them what they don’t want to hear.

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    sundogusa  about 5 years ago

    Calvin’s report is actually a fiction story. A for imagination!

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    rshive  about 5 years ago

    Details, Susie. Just details.

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    carlzr  about 5 years ago

    Wait until Calvin discovers PowerPoint.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Well, Calvin is on to something there. I have heard some very compelling BS that impressed me with a great presentation. I didn’t buy it, but the effort was impressive. How exactly does one get rid of a time share? Not that I bought one. Just asking for a friend.

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    Snolep  about 5 years ago

    Seeing thousands if not millions of bats emerging from Carlsbad Cavern at sundown in search of insects is a truly memorable event.

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    Jimmyk939  about 5 years ago

    Ah Calvin. If clues were shoes, you’d walk around barefoot

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    yangeldf  about 5 years ago

    given that Calvin is in the first grade, he could have gotten a good grade if his paper consisted of “Bats are the only flying mammals, most are nocturnal and eat insects, and use echolocation to find prey in the dark.” He could have got an even better grade if he noted that fruit bats are among the larger species and that vampire bats are among the smallest. I got all of this information from one of my old schoolastic books that’s sitting on a shelf in my room, if Calvin had spent 15 minutes to avail himself of his school’s library he’d have it.

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    WCraft Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Miss Susie should’ve read it and said: Nice report! The best revenge would be to let him turn it in!

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    RobertaPyle  about 5 years ago

    If he’d done a little ACTUAL research, and discovered that bats EAT bugs which they locate with their super cool sonar powers, he would have written a better report and probably not had to change the title! Bats ARE a big scourge of the skies—to BUGS!

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    Mediatech  about 5 years ago

    The grade curve is about to go into freefall.

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    russellc64  about 5 years ago

    So you are not what you eat?

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    Nick Danger  about 5 years ago

    This time Calvin is right as bats are a scourge of bugs and that would commonly be expressed the way he has written it.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 5 years ago

    Considering English he could mean that Bats are the Scourge of Bugs…

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member about 5 years ago

    Calvin meant that bats are the scourge of the big bad bugs of the sky.

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    Dr. Quatermass  about 5 years ago

    Didn’t Calvin mention making “bug butter” one time at lunch to gross out Susie?

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    Concretionist  about 5 years ago

    It’s a lost cause trying to educate the ineducable, Suzie.

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    hagarthehorrible  about 5 years ago

    Susie you are missing the gravity of the words used by Calvin. Context matters more than the literal meaning dear.

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    oksikoko  about 5 years ago

    You know, I always thought people appreciated Calvin & Hobbes for certain specific reasons, and I’ve never actually discussed the strip with anyone. Reading these comments, now, though, and wow. Calvin doesn’t have a clue? The only person in the strip smarter than Calvin is Hobbes, and Hobbes is Calvin (unless… ). Of course “smart” means a lot of things. Susie is quite intelligent, in a traditional sort of way, his parents have more experience and wisdom in general, and Miss Wormwood et al really do mean well, but she, for instance, represents the same sort of people who say blue and red are primary colors and refer to cyan and magenta as “sky blue” and “pink” expecting you to just repeat that info at test time. Meanwhile Calvin would already be painting, though with some “errors” in color theory application, while Hobbes, understanding it all, would be making acerbic and insightful comments on the work. I had no idea that many people think of Calvin as some sort of modern Dennis the Menace, or (gulp) a hard headed bone head like a certain head of state, though he hasn’t matured enough to appreciate the power factual accuracy will add to his repertoire. Calvin, I mean. He is, after all, 6 years old.

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