back in the 90’s i was a manager in a mortgage company and we had to work some satrudays. one day a girl overloaded the toaster oven and the thing caught fire. I , thinking quickly, grabbed a fire extinguisher off the wall, pulled the pin and let fly. I failed to read the instructions that said stand back 6-7 feet. i was a point blank range. it put out the fire but everything when YELLOW as i was caught in the back blast.
Panel 3’s quite interesting. We’re clearly seeing an image of Calvin’s daydream, but other characters visible in frame are not. Obviously Wormwood would be reacting very differently if she could see the flames herself, so two characters are perceiving two very different realities, and the reader is perceiving the main character’s version of events.
BE THIS GUY 11 months ago
Calvin has pushed Miss Wormwood over to the dark side.
codycab 11 months ago
“My tiger sabotaged my homework!”
Spacehog 11 months ago
Mrs. Wormwood is a pretty cool alien!
Sugar Bombs 95 11 months ago
Who else remembers being scared by this part when they read this story as kids?
SHIVA 11 months ago
This happens when you forget to take your meds in the morning!!!
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member 11 months ago
No jury would convict her.
BigDaveGlass 11 months ago
Come on baby, light my fire……
snsurone76 11 months ago
Guess it’s time for the straight-jacket and the padded cell.
saylorgirl 11 months ago
This one heck of a nightmare! Now Calvin really won’t go to school.
Harumph 11 months ago
She reminds me of Mrs. Doubtfire.
win.45mag 11 months ago
Sprinkler systems weren’t required back then, I guess.
kathleenhicks62 11 months ago
Calvin needs to wake up!
SteveHL 11 months ago
“Get the PTA!” is a great line.
KageKat 11 months ago
The mind is a cruel place!
PaulAbbott2 11 months ago
Meanwhile, over the school loudspeakers, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is playing (Google it, kids!)
SquidGamerGal 11 months ago
GAH! Why would he dream up something like this?!
jagedlo 11 months ago
Imagining what that final panel would look like in color…
Link from Twilight Princess (He/Him) 11 months ago
Oh dear god That is so freaky
Just-me 11 months ago
Calvin will wind up in juvenile detention before too many more years go by.
mindjob 11 months ago
It’d be great if the firemen show up, and they’re all aliens too
William Bednar Premium Member 11 months ago
Where are Scully and Mulder when you need them?
Wizard of Ahz-no relation 11 months ago
back in the 90’s i was a manager in a mortgage company and we had to work some satrudays. one day a girl overloaded the toaster oven and the thing caught fire. I , thinking quickly, grabbed a fire extinguisher off the wall, pulled the pin and let fly. I failed to read the instructions that said stand back 6-7 feet. i was a point blank range. it put out the fire but everything when YELLOW as i was caught in the back blast.
rshive 11 months ago
Things seldom go as planned. Eh, Calvin?
Gent 11 months ago
Aha. Just what the alien astronut theorists had always suspected!
Gent 11 months ago
Legend has it that Giorgio was her first student.
wstanley0418 11 months ago
Calvin was a very coolk kid. He just didn’t know it!
Robert4170 11 months ago
Calvin is the master of pretending.
Vgrift85 11 months ago
A lot like my 1st grade teacher….
John Jorgensen 11 months ago
Panel 3’s quite interesting. We’re clearly seeing an image of Calvin’s daydream, but other characters visible in frame are not. Obviously Wormwood would be reacting very differently if she could see the flames herself, so two characters are perceiving two very different realities, and the reader is perceiving the main character’s version of events.
g04922 11 months ago
LOL.. Calvin’s daydreams are getting out of hand…
jbruins84341 11 months ago
A fire on a student’s desk is a disruption? I would think it was more.
Tetonbil 11 months ago
Quite the ‘Trip’ our boy is on about today!
delennwen 11 months ago
Calvin should read the “My Teacher Is an Alien” books by Bruce Coville.
wiley207 11 months ago
Heh, in the last panel, the alien Miss Wormwood looks kind of like her original 1985 form, with the longer hair and bigger nose.
Funny enough, the fire alarm went off at my workplace today.
cbs1947 11 months ago
Looks like a delayed reaction. Calvin got into mom and dad’s gummies
viniragu 11 months ago
Yup, Sister Joseph in third grade!!!
Omniman 11 months ago
Never pour gasoline on a fire!
rmercer Premium Member 11 months ago
If this is a dream, it’s a REALLY GREAT dream!
cracker65 11 months ago
She’s going to have to keep a strait jacket handy for this young man.
Cathy P. 11 months ago
Men in Black, J’s elementary school teacher was an alien.