Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 04, 2022

It was left in someone’s bed.

Doesn’t Calvin enjoy graphic stuff?

It’s under your bed.

A new story to memorize.

No wonder Calvin has issues.

This made me laugh. Love their eyes.

Why didn’t I think of that with “The Baby Beebeebob Bird”?

Variety, is the spice of life. It’s character building………

My kid wanted a story. NOT any of those stories in BOOKS, a REAL story. So I invented Ched R. Cheese, a mouse who had adventures. It turned out to be a blessing because I simply couldn’t remember last night’s story… it was all pretty much free association. Kind of fun… for both of us.

We were living in a house that I was working at finishing, so of course Ched was building HIS house too. But he did it by digging out delicious cheese from a giant wheel of cheddar…

Wallace the Brave’s father knows how to tell a great bedtime story. Check it out.

We can trace Dad’s career as a serial killer back to that very night.

Surely Calvin approves of the gross changes?

But Gooey-Kablooie is happy.

Sundays strip is here!! You must go back!

Dad met the challenge in his own way as usual. Improvisation is a parent’s best talent.

Just shut up and read “Hamster Huey”, Dad!!

You can have your double bourbon afterwards!!

I guess this time Hamster Huey really went Kablooie. No word on whether the result was gooey or not.

Don’t worry Hobbes! Every year at Halloween, his head mysteriously appears on your porch with a candle flickering inside it.

Clever Dad, changed it up and he’ll never ask for THAT story again!

I was a mean parent. I had a hard & fast rule that there would be NO repeats – books, videos, etc. – within 3 days. Begging resulted in an automatic & firm NO. The girls lived.

So staying up half the night will build some character for Calvin?

for me I always wanted Winnie the Pooh Meets Gopher

no one wanted to read it to me yet AGAIN so I basically taught myself to read at around 2 or 3

I never had any stories read to me. By the time I was five, I was reading stories myself before I fell asleep.

Dad gets a win tonight that Mom will pay for tomorrow as Dad goes to work leaving her with a sleep deprived Calvin. Perfect!

Wait until Dad starts reading the brothers Grimm to you. That’ll give you dreams to remember.

That is really, really funny!

Jeez, Dad, just read the story. You are supposed to entertain the kid, not yourself. And I’m sure Hamster Huey doesn’t have a page count up with War and Peace.

I was learning to read and I asked my dad to read me a story. He turned it around and asked me to read him the story I had asked him to read. It took a little while and a bit of help, but I got it read aloud to him. I felt such a sense of accomplishment and it was the start of my lifelong love of reading.

(trigger warning!) If hamsters have one, Huey’s tail and little paws, being further from the Kablooie might still identifiable. Even with air filled with fur hair still floating around the room.

With any luck, finding Hamster Heuy’s head will be tomorrow’s story.

Sounds like my son at that age he had one favorite book and enjoyed being read to, for me I got that book memorized.

Something tells me there were a few verbal edits.

What’s a gooey kablooie?

Doesn’t look like the bedtime story worked.

A “surprise” ending!

“Once upon a time Hamster Huey went gooey kablooey. The End.” Now go to sleep Calvin.

Hmm… Dad did a major and gruesome edit on Hamster. That story is over forever.

I will always remember the strip when Hamster Huey was first introduced. Dad was actually the one who thought Calvin would like it, and Calvin was skeptical.

And we all know how it turned out in the end…

This one’s one of my favorites

After that episode, I would like love to see exhausted and jittery dad in the bed

Nice touch! I didn’t see that coming. If a Father like him, actually existed, he should get an award.

He got a version he couldn’t refuse.

There’s a similar C&H strip, where in the final panel, Calvin says “I never knew Hamster Huey could talk so fast!”, and Hobbes responds, “Or be so sarcastic!” Hahahahahahaa!

I used to add variations to “Muffin Mouse’s New House” to see if my daughter would pick up on them, but nothing gruesome — I wanted her to actually sleep.

The head is wrapped in a silk bed sheet under the bed. Next time Calvin should sign the contract!

It’s a pity that Dad can only see Calvin’s reactions and not Hobbes’s reactions. Hobbes has some wonderful facial expressions.

Mike Mulligan & his steam shovel….

Dad – the motivational speaker??

If I were the Dad, I would just not read ANY story to Calvin that night!

I did that to my kids a couple times with the different books they love. However, I did not make up anything graphic. It was funny how they would correct me.

back then a cassette player would work.

You’d think Dad would have tossed the book out by now.

Hamster Huey was also one of the instigators in the spaghetti incident.

Seems to me that by the time I could read, I wasn’t itching for the same book over and over anymore.

Our favorite was “Green Eggs and Ham” We read it until it was memorized. Always had to laugh when my 2 year old filled in the words.

Can’t be worse than this video my son used to watch called The Fox. It was some C movie produced in somewhere like Poland. It was horrid yet almost every night we had to watch it before bedtime.

When my son was about 3 he “read” Curious George to us. Never missed a word and turned the pages at just the right times.

Good strategy, dad.

Hey, this is the same reason I watch Monty Python and the Holy Grail over and over…

I could comment, that it is strange that Calvin reads all the time, but not at bedtime.But I won’t.

Dad must have read the NR director’s cut. ;-p

In retrospect, what we liked for bedtime stories as kids we don’t always want to read as adults., even with kids. Would that be proof of ‘building character’?

Soon to be a Hallmark Christmas movie