Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 16, 2024

Hobbes definitely earned that sandwich.

Hobbes is in it for the snacks, and Calvin is in it for the money. So they both get what they want in the end.

In the rush to leave, he probably dropped the camera?

It’s all about the food.

That box has better acceleration than a Maserati.

Panel 1: How did Calvin’s teacher get there?

Allie narrowly escaped a nasty case of ptomaine!

I hate to think of what those photos actually show. Another burst balloon!

I wonder what the Allosaur thought of the snacks? A mushy banana and a sandwich with undetermined filling. And Hobbes, unperturbed through the entire episode. Well, except for his stomach of course……

But I will say I love Watterson’s rendition of the dino’s. I would love it if this episode had lasted longer…….

Old movie “A Sound of Thunder”. They fed a mushy banana to a dinosaur, and return to their present with EVERYTHING changed!

By the time he unwraps it, it will be a fossil.

Forgot to put film in the camera!

Hobbes has his priorities straight

Two things I know now after readings today’s strip:

Vortex goggles are so very important to wear when time traveling that one must affix the eye protection properly, despite the threat of imminently being eaten by a dinosaur, before activating the time machine and escaping.

The time machine levitates vertically before engaging in the actual time travel trip.

The engineering behind the construction of the time machine simply amazes me!

Little known fact, the dinosaur slips only to perish on the mushy banana peel, fossilizes and is later found.

PETA will probably have them arrested for feeding the animals.

Completely off the wall! But, Calvin’s in his own world with Hobbs. Since he doesn’t really anyone to play with because he knows that they wouldn’t understand him.

Sandwiches are high priority. Bananas, not so much.

Food is a good motivator. I always show up at affairs where food is served.

I was in a dress shop with my wife one day. I approached the only other person in the store with a Y chromosome and said to him, “My wife is bribing me with lunch. What’s your story?” We had a great conversation.

Nice to see that Hobbes has his priorities straight!

And that modern-day banana, thrown into the Cretaceous (?) period, will change all of human history.

I like how their vortex goggles look similar to those big horn-rimmed eyeglasses some old cartoon characters wear, like Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

There’s no such thing as dinosaurs. God put fossils in the Earth just to test our faith (eyeroll).

They escaped without having to go to plaid.

Calvin would be wise not to let a nearby tiger go hungry.

Calvin really did bring food? I thought he was lying.

Calvin may be a major pain in the tookus (toochus?) most of the time, but BOY do I love seeing his imagination, his ramblings and his adventuring. SSOOOO much better than living a young life in some screen!

Gosh, I hope that Allosaur doesn’t slip on the banana peel and hurt himself.

He threw it the camera?

Any one read ‘A Sound of Thunder’ By Ray Bradbury? I don’t think Hobbes has.

What kind of sandwich is it?

Hope that banana doesn’t change history.