Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 13, 2010

I wonder why?

Calvin’s quick to rub it in.

After a pep talk from Calvin surly is the best you can hope for… and then you die.

What kind, cheering words ! It is mean of Dad not to appreciate !

Dad must be quicker on the trigger… he should’ve answered something like “if I go to work and earn money I can buy me lots of candies and cartoons”…

he is a man not a kid andy!

Surly!

Dad surely is surly!

I like reading good novels too, I could do that for hours and hours and hours!

And stop calling him Shirley

See, Calvin does pay attention in school…how many 6- 8 year olds even know what surly means, let alone use it in a sentence! Heck, I teach 14 year olds who don’t know it’s a word!

Too bad Bill Watterson retired: I would love to see Dad with different comebacks.

This comic strip just made my day worse…

Linda Arney, Calvin’s vocabulary is extensive, but sometimes his grammar is lacking. He used ‘sure’ instead of surely in the last panel. Do you accuse some of your 14 year olds of being surly and they don’t understand what you are saying?

Calvin is going to work in a button factory. He knows which ones to push.

Yikes! What a way to start the week…Thanks, Calvin

Calvin on a very nice day I wish I could sit outside reading a good book. I work pt office setting, next week taking Jr. college courses on line for a different type of position. Also Calvin there are workers that work outside all the time.

It’s so nice to be back! 4 days of no Calvin and Hobbes… I missed it! It makes me enjoy my day at work!

Smart alecky kid.Don’t you love it when he is right? Think I’ll read a book today as the weathers nice and I have the attained that age..

Calvin being a realist? How unrealistic!

Actually it’s not Calvin to Dad; it’s Bill Watterson to us. Fhgfh fhfhg s#$ o% a bsdgj!

Thanks, Bill. A good laugh to help with the “mondays.”

I cannot stay one day without Calvin and Hobbes!

Dad shouldn’t be upset……….he gets to leave for work, and won’t have to deal with Calvin. Now, Mom,…………..

“Just you wait, ‘enry ‘iggins, just you wait!”

This is Calvin’s revenge for Dad’s astronomy lesson yesterday.

Calvin is the coolest kid ever. My family is forgetting about Calvin and Hobbes. They used to read it in the papers when I was little, my brother read it, but now whenever I show it to them, they just look at it and just shrug or say meh or something. I’m so sad. I’m thinking: “You read this before me. Some people are just jealous of Bill Watterson’s amazing comic strip

When Calvin grows up he will start up a clothing store called “Smart T. Pants” - hahahaha….

Hold it here you little worm if I were your dad I start my day with education ,your education on respect of other people

HO HUM, DAD ,I din’t hear anthing Calvin said either :-)

boy123:

I think that Andy was being a little facetious here. I’m sure he absolutely knows that Calvin’s dad is a grown man.

With the “candies and cartoons” comeback, dad would have turned the tables on Calvin’s smart alecky attitude, saying that because he has a job, he can buy all the candies and cartoons he wants … which are things that Calvin loves but because he’s a 6-year-old boy with a very small allowance, they’re harder to come by for him.

Kids like Calvin are why I question that the child labor laws are a good idea - as they are written. (I’m all for education, I’m just not for letting kids goof off, but unless you have your own business, the government won’t let them work until they’re a teenager - even in the summer. By that time, most of them have the expectation they are entitled to goof off while someone else supports them.)

Rmon: You goofed off as a kid, and look

how nicely you turned out.

I’d let Calvin know he doesn’t get $$$ to go to school & will 1 day have to work 40 plus hrs a week as well. By then the retirement age should be about 80

Since when would Calvin read a novel cover to cover dad? That tells you he’s not sincere! Ignore him!

Payback is a mother…. Payback for the camping trip that only Dad enjoyed!!! Git ‘im, Calvin!!

@Poindexter, that was my feeling(comment) earlier

Just common sense for a Dad with a Calvin type :-)

what a kid,make him go and cut the grass,that should get him in a surly mood also.

Yeah, too bad Dad has to go back to work after that nice vacation he forced on everybody last week. He had his fun, now it’s Cal’s turn.

Surly to bed, And surly to rise…

Heh, I wonder what my dad would do if I said this to him.

LOL!!!!!!!

calvin thats not really nice