Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 24, 2023

Stupendous Man can’t see in the dark?

If Calvin behaved more, he still wouldn’t be mild mannered.

The first hindrance for a young Superhero.

Stupendous plan

Years later, his mummified body will be discovered inside the locker!!!

haha pretty funny.

You can’t handle having a handle!

Stupendous Man, Lover of Liberty, is locked inside the Locker of Lost Liberty!

Looks like Stupendous Man could use a utility belt.

Stupidendous man.

Stupendous Man should have brought a flashlight!

Awesome! Superman gets trapped in a phone booth! “HEY!!! LEMME OUTTA HERE!!!”

I believe that’s “Ride of the Valkyries” that he’s singing.

I foresee yet another parent conference in the principal’s office over this one,

Well, this is off to a great start…

I can’t believe Miss Wormwood let him leave during a test.

Uh oooh!

Trouble is on the horizon.

Memory serves me this, there is no access to the latch from the inside.

‘’Memory serves me this’’ … what a curious phrase, perhaps the aphasia is kicking in, again.

Wait, “mild mannered” who…?

“Mild mannered Calvin?” The epitome of self-delusion.

At least Calvin did not try to turn into Wonder Woman!

That transformation could maybe stand to be a little LESS stupendous…

ignominy strikes our hero

They found his skeleton twenty years later while demolishing the duilding!

Talk about proactive. Most kids wait for the bully to get around to stuffing them into a locker!

Just noticed that Principal Spittle appears to be wearing Birkenstocks with his suit.

He avoids detection by shouting out loud and humming theme music in an otherwise silent hallway?

Say, does the principal have a name? He’s a recurring character in this strip but I can’t recall him ever being addressed as such.

Did kids that young ever have lockers??

Mild mannered Calvin. Beyond hilarious!

Heh, I picture Calvin making his voice sound more “bold” and “heroic” when he’s Stupendous Man. (That is, sounding like a small boy imitating a stereotypical superhero voice.) He’ll even say that last line in that voice!

Our school didn’t have lockers when I was Calvin’s age. The desks opened up and we put all the books inside

Trapped like a rodent?

This should have run yesterday, on the birthday of Georg Friedrich Handel, inventor of the doorknob.

This is a great story line!!!

I’ve never seen an inside handle on a school locker.

Stay tuned. Next week Stupendous Man, becomes Suspended Boy !

Cool! Stupendous Man has a theme song.

Like when I was a teen and jobbed filling walk-in freezers with cases of meat.. always glancing at the interior lock release.

Yes, as Katsuro noticed above, Stupendous Man has joined the Valkyries!

At least Superman could open a phone booth from the inside.

“Darn it! Superman never had this problem!”