Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 03, 2022

This is the same kid who goes on the crazy wagon and sled rides?

Hobbes should have been behind Calvin to give him a push.

Who else saw slides like this as a kid? Slowly raises hand

Calvin talks a good game.

Up to heaven! Nice Dad is waiting!!

Spaceman Spiff would do it in a heartbeat, man.

Calvin is worried because Dad said this is a character building exercise.

Things look bigger when you’re smaller lol

Come on, kids seldom burn up on reentry.

View to a thrill

Acute acrophobia here. (And there’s nothing cute about it!)

Gotta love the accurate drawing of the Great Lakes!

This guy could draw.

A child’s imagination, if filmed in action, would kill every cable adventure show.

It appears that Calvin lives in Ohio

I remember the old metal slide at the city park. Best place to blister your butt in town. That thing was HOT in the summer.

The only problem with a slide that tall is that by the time you finish you are two time zones away from where you started.

Even my acrophobia isn’t that bad.

When I was Calvin’s age I fell off the slide at school. Knocked me out. Mom came and took me home. I went right back up the ladder the next day.

By that map where do they live Indiana or Illinois? If he sees Michigan to the north in the distance. Kentucky or Tennessee, probably not these as they never gave a redneck attitude.

Reminds me of the first summer I lived with my wife and two stepsons. We went to a water park just north of Toronto and there was a slide that was about 60 feet above the ground to start. the youngest asked me to take him up there. He was 7 at the time. I did NOT want to do that but one must not show fear and said “OK”. It was exhilarating. We went back several times until the wife and oldest boy wanted to move on to another part of the park.

Remember when some hotel pools had a 3 meter high dive? That was me on those.

My lucky day. My daughter bought me 2, 1992 C & H books at a church sale yesterday. One looks like the first book Watterson published, simply titled “Calvin and Hobbes”, but it is a 23rd printing. The second is “The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes” and appears to be a first printing. She said she paid .50 each for them.

Sliding pond.

Happy (early) 4th! Stairway to Heaven fireworks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVWKGgKn980

Makes me think of Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, but with a glass of water at the bottom.

Took me a second to recognize the Great Lakes. I used to make a game of putting on the NASA channel and trying to identify Earth’s land masses. I never could tell where the heck they were until a name came up on the screen, and sometimes I still couldn’t recognize it to be the area they said. The trouble is that north can be any direction up or down, left or right, when you’re in orbit. Then about half the “map” is obscured with cloud cover. It can be quite the puzzle.

As a kid, standing atop the garage, I told myself the ground was closer to my feet than my eyes, so I wasn’t jumping from eye level, but from foot level. After jumping, lying on the ground, I realized both my feet and eyes were on the ground, so my eyes had been right about how high it was. I didn’t repeat my jump.

Where is Spaceman Biff when you need him?

There is someone who had had their shirt roll up their back during a slide ride!

Too long at the top and Calvin might get struck by lightning.

Why is Calvin so scared? He does worse with his wagon with Hobbes.

EVERYTHINING looks bigger to a kid.

A friend owned a public pool that had a slide. He had a party for some tennis buddies. Another friend was going up the ladder, slowly, even though he had a real problem with heights. When I hollered “WE MUST LOOK LIKE ANTS!” he aborted the mission.

Reminds me of how high Fleishhacker pool in SF was. When you jumped into that salt water, it felt like you hit cement. And the platform seemed 1000 feet high

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleishhacker_Pool

I know the feeling.

I think I had a nightmare like that once.

My son was Calvin’s age when we went to a park with HUGE slides. He wasn’t sure he wanted to try one so I said I’d go with him. Down we went with him between my legs.He was silent when we got to the bottom. I asked, “What do you think?” He said, “That was fast. . . I was scared. . . Let’s do it again!”

Can’t help but think if his parents didn’t know he was doing it he would have had no trouble going over the edge.

At this point in my life, my hesitation would come not from it being a long way down but from it being a long way up. I’d get tired of climbing.

Brave on the inside.

Puts him in about Eastern Pennsylvania, doesn’t it?

Just how hot is that slide?

There is family movie (pre-video media format) that shows me sliding down a slide, very, very slowly. Making the journey down worth the effort of climbing up.

As if the height isn’t scary enough, there appears to be a hurricane in the cloud formation he’s headed in to.

How much friction (and heat) would a 70,000 foot descent put on your backside?

This was how I felt when I climbed the BIG diving board in 1st grade and there was no goin back down- too many others on the ladder waiting on me!

Gone are the days of taking a few sheets of wax paper to the park and sliding on them. WOW did you go FAST!!

Lord, the artwork!!

Can’t wait to see him try the high dive at the pool!

Watch out for that pteradactyl on the way down!

My local park had a slide like that when I was a kid. Now they’re “too dangerous”.

We had a slide at school that looked like that to us first graders. And it was metal just like that one looks. You could just about burn your butt off on a hot day.

This reminds me of the time my nephew was climbing up a big curly slide. He got scared at first, but he got down the slide and felt better after I caught him when he came down.

You always want adventure…now’s your chance.

Looks like he’s headed for Pittsburgh.