Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 23, 2020

Hobbes doesn’t learn, this is how Calvin caught him. He is kind of stupid that way.

Hopefully the dinosaurs don’t like tuna fish cans.

I’d go if there were Cheez-Its…

Fun fact: You’re closer in time to a living T Rex than that T Rex is to a living Stegosaurus. The dinosaurs were around for a REALLY long time.

Our cat will do tricks for snacks. Admittedly, not very complex tricks, but hey: She’s old and fat…

I’m pretty sure the time machine was the only one of Calvin’s box inventions that was used more than twice.

Get snacks and risk death in the jaws of a dinosaur, or no snacks and no risk. Yes, they need to be good snacks.

Calvin will make a great infomercial creator: throw in the extra stuff at the end if you want to catch them

“I’m going to have to eat all these tuna sandwiches by myself!…..” Move over"…

Hobbes is so easily bribed. ;D

Looks like Hobbes is the catch of the day.

If others need food for thought, snacks will do for Hobbes!

Today’s lesson is how to disarm a Tiger’s defenses. First you’ll need snacks, but make sure they’re good ones, and lots of them…

Calvin better let Hobbes in before he succumbs to the Hobbes’ mandibles of death. Hobbes looks pretty hungry in that last panel.

Calvin knows how to get Hobbes interested!

One of the last things that would want to do would be to hang out with dinosaurs that could eat me. That is why I think that the Jurassic Park movies are so stupid.

All you need is leverage. Though even the best leverage sometimes only gets lukewarm participation.

Tigers, like the Army, travel on their stomachs.

Calvin seems to have learned the art of pushing buttons.

That tiger has no dignity. :D

“Absolutely NEVER, under any circumstances, will I participate in…. Wait a second, did you say snacks were involved?!?”

Every notice how time travel adventures end when the snacks run out?

Hobbes thinks with his brain most of the time, but often his stomach will take over.

This is the classic line that has stuck in my mind for the last three decades: “Snacks? What kind of snacks? Are they good snacks?” :-)

Don’t fall for the old “snacks” gag Hobbes……

Four years before the Spielberg movie, but I think that Michael Crichton’s book was out in 1990

The old ‘can-opener’ trick.

Calvin certainly knows how to appeal to Hobbes.

It’s real hard to wait 24 hours for the next Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. I have the hard cover complete works of Mr Watterson, but finding this exact strip would take too long. It’s a real exercise in patience. I bet Hobbes is going to go on this trip, probably his last trip through time with Calvin. Mr Watterson was a genius. Am I ever addicted and it’s just 4 cartoon panels. It’s hard to wait 24 hours for the next one.

The way through a tiger’s common sense is with snacks.