Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 08, 2009

Now he has got the picture. What a scene !

Excellent, dad!

Time to load up on the insurance policy and to buy a Yugo.

Dad sees things in the grand scheme.

At long last Calvin’s dad has come to his senses. Now he reminds me alot about my dad. So I think that I’ll dedicate this cartoon strip to him. God bless you dad, I love you

Ladywolf17

What a picture..C&H driving around in a car.. :D

Always look on the bright … side of your life …

(whistling)

Calvin already tortured himself enough. Surely, Dad realized that too. Calvin will be trying in 10 years? Ooh, that sent a chill up my spine.

Nothing like a little perspective.

Daddy … looks like you knw what calvin is capable of :)

I love this one…makes them human:)

hehe sorry to spoil your imagination but i’ve read the part where Calvin wrecked his dad’s car! good thing he’s still alive after the incident. :)

Like my Dad. After a Japanese submarine fired 2 torpedoes that went under his landing craft, there weren’t many things that could rattle his cage.

This is sweet. Bumped my varsity car and tried to fix it behind my dad’s back. When he found out he could not understand why I would not come directly to him as he would really want to help me(he would obviously first be very angry :-) ) .

Ah yes, jhenjhen, thanks for the reminder: Calvin is precocious even at car-wrecking. :) Even more precocious than James T. Kirk was, apparently….However, Dad obviously was thinking Calvin would have a learner’s permit by then. :)

Paul M. (again), if you’re reading this, go back and reread my comments yesterday. I didn’t reveal ANYTHING then about today’s strip. I didn’t intend to. I never do.

By age 16, Calvin probably will be ready for Reform School.LOL

My daughter dented my car. “I swear that pole was not there when I looked behind me.”

In the next frame (not shown) “In the bigger scheme of things - you can pay me back for the binoculars over time…”

Dad certainly has a feel for the big picture. And he’s probably right about the car. One hopes he’s found inexpensive insurance by then.

awwww..i like how dad is looking at calvin in first panel

Aww, what a nice father-son bonding scene we have here. Now all they need to do is give each other a big bear hug.

By the time Calvin gets to drive, cars will be made more cheaply and be even more expensive to repair. Sell the car and take the bus to work.

I used the ‘Share’ option to send this to my dad. He’s 70, I’m 45. Lots of truth in this cartoon. Lots.

A great lesson like that is worth at least a pair of binoculars.

Love the emotion in Calvin’s facial expressions, especially the quivering lips in the last panel. Never seen him quite so sympathetic, & neither has his Dad.

Calvin you’re lucky your dad is so understanding. I thought you’d at least get a blistered butt out of this.

“But Dad, I was in the passenger seat the whole time. I let Hobbes take a turn at the wheel.”

I’m with you Macushlalondra… oh to live in a sweet comic book world where Dad didn’t beat the tar out of you first and ask questions later… Though this did teach us to carefully consider consequences BEFORE action.

Deep!

I think you can depend on that

skyhawk maintainer : more, please, more details on that story about your dad..

ahh yes Dad, maintain the pragmatic point of view. I see Calvin and Hobbes tooling around town in a “Royal Gold 66 GTO with Hobbes tail flyin out of the back window. Musicnut, can ya dig that? (maybe, with some Bob Seeger, “Turn the Page blasting on the 8 track)

I still like that accident report: “I was driving along peacefully when a tree came out of nowhere and hit my car.”

LOVE IT!!!!

The phrase “Eat my dust” will take on a whole new meaning when Calvin wrecks Dad’s car.

when Calvin Drives im not leaving my basement

I realize that you’re quite sceptical abaout Calvin driving a car..but hey, a car doesn’t even fly!!! LOL

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

We all know how Calvin and Hobbs end up when they toboggan down the big hill!

i think what makes C&H so popular is the mixture of humor and real life, along with the storylines and the characterization, all from a 6 year old’s perspective

Thats the greatest Dad ever

Jaddis said: ”“But Dad, I was in the passenger seat the whole time. I let Hobbes take a turn at the wheel.”

Yuppers. Dad and mom will still be dealing with Calvin’s old and ratty stuffed tiger when he’s a wild teenager.

That’s a scary thought. But then, he doesn’t have any friends now other than Hobbes. He may hang on to Hobbes a lot longer than others might hang on to their stuffed animals.

10 years nothing…..there was a strip where calvin gets in the car and puts it in gear and it rolls down the driveway across the road into a ditch .

it’s good to see dad mellowed out and had a reasonable discussion with calvin

cleokaya: i had a neighbor who bought 2 yugo’s for his son, one for driving and the other for parts

De hecho fue antes XD

Aw, that’s so sweet!

Oh Calvin, poor little baby! Thanks dad for understanding him.

Calvin learned that people yell but the ones who love you move past it. Breathes there a parent who hasn’t yelled?

bald - That was a good idea to buy the two Yugos. I would imagine that parts are pretty scarce.

When Calvin starts liking girls, will Hobbes still be coming along on dates?

I somehow expect the car wrecking to occur before 16.

Sin and Redemption is one of the core themes of Calvin and Hobbes…

Can only regret that Bill Watterson didn’t extend the strip until Calvin wrecked the car at age 16, or whatever driving age they have in whatever state he is. But guess he would have kept Calvin at 6 years old forever.

dad is soooo correct

That reminds me the time a blew up a microwave. Good times, GOOD times!