Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 16, 2020

Not far enough, that bicycle will hunt you down.

Maybe across town.

Even taking out the garbage is hazardous.

depends how much is in your (parents’) savings account, Calvin

Tire marks across your forehead, that has a nice ring to it.

I wonder what will happen with his first car .

Calvin has savings?

See if there’s anything in the garbage that you can feed to the bicycle first.

Just learn to ride the bike, it’ll take you further than your savings ever could! You can thank me later!

Geez Calvin! What did you even do to that bicycle?

Why do children have to take simple chores and turn them into complicated things??

Tire tracks all across your back, I can see you’ve had your fun. Crosstown Traffic.

Calvin might have a future writing horror stories. Move over Stephen King.

Why don’t they rein it in with training wheels, or be helpful for a change.

Wave a flag of truce, Calvin. After all, you’re doing it for Mom.

Sorry Calvin, but that bike is like Visa! It’ll be everywhere you want to be!

We have killer tomatoes and we have killer bicycles.

It just wants a nice bell on its handlebars.

So his bike has come out of the closet.

Does Calvin even understand the value of money? I don’t know why but it brings this commercial to mind…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0eEqeizNCA

It is a really poorly drawn bike or Watterson is clueless as how to size a bike as you should be able to straddle the top bar without the top bar touching your boy equipment and this bike the the top bar looks like it is up to Calvin’s eyes.

If you can pedal, er…peddle some wares to fund the trip, reasonably far, Calvin! :D

We had a rather beat-up 20" bike that five of us learned to ride on. Dad couldn’t see any point in getting us new bicycles until we knew how to ride.

Fierce and big is the evil bike

Spokes of steel frame of metal

Must you hunt the little tyke

Now poor Calvin has gone mental

Good thing it doesn’t have the inverted French handlebars; he could get gored. I am glad that those style of handlebars have been deprecated. They only provided the slightest bit of improvement to athletes who trained at riding in an exceedingly uncomfortable position but somehow were “de rigeur” for decades. It was a fad based on false information. Remember fiberglass netting tailgates?

The best way to tame a wild bike is to put a basket on it. No bike can be wild, or cool, with a basket on the handle bars.

Forget about killer bicycles; if I had ever asked my Mom if she was “mad,” I’d never have made it to the garage unscathed!

Cal, just turn into Spaceman Spiff, he knows how to handle killer alien bike monsters… ☺

One of the prime rules of parenting. You might not believe in monsters, demonic dolls, or Satanic bikes, but your kid does so take his fear seriously and remove the scary object.

Is this boy bipolar?

Where’s a tiger when you need one?

Psychosis is a terrible thing.

My comment on yesterday’s cartoon were not the best. I was in a bad mood about some things, and I should not let that get in the way. Enjoy.

poor calvin :(