Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 27, 2020

They should lock away the tools.

Calvin is playing a bored* game, madame.

*See what I did there?

i heard the loudest thunderclap of my life two days ago. scared my whole family.

Does he have any built-in circuit breakers to stop him from wanton destruction???

At this time, Calvin could at least have the classic Nintendo to pass the time.

How can Calvin “play a board game” unless Mom or Dad plays with him? You can’t play checkers by yourself, I’ve tried.

It’s a good think she saw through his plans.

I came, I saw, I surrendered…

Play a board game? He’ll only have Hobbes to play with. And Hobbes cheats.

I’ve always wondered if Calvin is, indeed, a termite.

Calvin saw the light, his mother saw to that….

A Mother: Human Lightning Rod for children with things in their hands that they should not have; AKA The Terminatoress!

It’s gonna take more than a fraction of a second to reduce that house to a million pieces with that saw.

I can’t see a kid like Calvin liking board games.

I bet Calvin will take up demolition as a career when he grows up.

Calvin’s Mom always cuts into his me-time!

I just like the dangling by the stretched t-shirt! That would make a nifty avatar.

at least he didn’t have a chain saw.

Calvin’s Mom has invented a novel version of the wedgie. The teegie? If she knotted it in back, maybe it would work as a covid mask. Ahead of the curve.

Ha ha! What a precocious little boy. My mother never let me play with hand saws inside, either!

Maybe lock Calvin in his room. At least localize the damage.

70 years ago I started sawing the front porch off of our house.

Calvin is just SO creative…

I picture Calvin the Lightning Bolt making the classic “Castle Thunder” sound effects, ala the old Universal horror movies and the older Disney and Hanna-Barbera cartoons, like this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8EYSZP77Ag

Calvin needs to be a writer……syfy?

No, Calvin. Use the screw driver. So much quieter – they will never hear you coming!

Name one board game you can play by yourself.

He’s mentally destructive , needs help.

I was about Calvin’s age when I accidently blew up the tv set during a thunderstorm. We lived out in the country and the tv had to be hooked up to an antenna in order to get any programs to come in. Anytime there was a thunderstorm we had to disconnect the tv from the antenna as it was the tallest thing for lightning to hit.(This was back in the early to mid 1970’s) Well I wanted to watch tv so I hooked the antenna back up to the tv. Lightning struck and the tv was destroyed. Our “new” tv was a floor model tube television that my parents got somewhere that had to warm up for 5 minutes before you would get a picture and had to be shut off after 2 or 3 hours to avoid overheating and having the tubes burn out. We didn’t get a modern colour tv until the late 1980’s.

Did you see what I saw?

What’s faster than Calvin the Lightning Bolt? Calvin the Lightning Bolt’s mother.

Let him go fly a kite outside.

Woah Calvin chill

Boy, this kids got a destructive imagination