Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 12, 2021

Too bad Calvin slipped. I was looking forward to the slingshot effect.

Tough kid that Calvin.

That Calvin is a real swinger…..

and just for how long should hold it, Calvin?

From the swings to the monkey bars.

Gravity Law works against Calvin.

Time to put some velcro on the seat.

Let go, Hobbes. Just let go!

When I was a child, I wanted this too, but I never lost the seat! I swung highest and best of all children. I loved this!!

There’s no force of gravity. The earth sucks.

I was expecting Hobbes to swing him so hard that it would wrap the rope around the top crossbar.

♪ “Swing is in the air” ♪ ♪

too high, lower just a teeny bit

I loved the hard, “flat” swing seats we had as kids. We used to even stand up to swing. And it was easy to jump off the swing and fly through the air with the flat seats. You can’t do that with these soft, moldable-to-your-butt plastic seats these days.

Now, how could he possibly be doing that if Hobbes were just a stuffed toy?

When my eldest was a toddler, on swings in a playground, she was enjoying going really high. A child the same age next to her was being pushed by her mother, and going nowhere as high, asked to be pushed like my girl.

And promptly started screamed because she was so scared.

My little thrill seeker simply enjoyed the ride…

It’s the Peter Principle: Calvin rose to his level of incompetence.

So we don’t get to see the launch of satellite Calvin?

Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg will be on TV tonight here in the UK. She says in today’s “Daily Mirror” that she has sometimes been called “a brat” because of her environmental concerns. Calvin is often called a brat and he also has environmental concerns. In a recent Sunday strip in which he expressed concern for the environment, one of the commentators replied “Get a grip, Greta.”

Calvin wouldn’t like to be compared to a girl – very few boys do – but he would identify strongly with Greta Thunberg – especially when she was missing school for her environmental protest. That isn’t intended as criticism of Greta nor as criticism of Calvin’s environmental side which is one of his best characteristics.

It’s a good thing we’re, usually, low to the ground as we learn about gravity. Calvin is about to learn a lesson.

Now this is a cartoon I can relate to, been there done that….lol

Good call, Cal…you were about to reach escape velocity.

He’d have to change his hand-grip to achieve that last panel.

As a great philosopher once said, a man’s got to know his limitations.

When our kids had a swing set I thought I would give it a try (I was much lighter then.) It wasn’t the same; I had a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach at the bottom. The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on….

I remember when a kid we had a tree growing next to the garage of the house, I asked dad to make a swing there which he did with a board, I spent lot of time on that swing, then I outgrew it, and dad then took it down. Grown up that same tree after 65 years died, My dad died 1999 and my mom in 2016.

Calvin’s motto, “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.”

Beware of that stretched feline. He can propel you off the swing.

Physics.

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