Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 27, 2024

They’re not running everywhere, Calvin. They’re running AWAY from you!

Calvin the ant…

Too many people have learned from the ants—always in a hurry to get nowhere!

Irony in panel 4…

one time, Ⅰ was out there in that ol’ dusty yard and Ⅰ got bit by a big ol’ fat ant

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it was Aunt Peggy

— Clayburn Cox

It’s their short legs. They may run everywhere but they sure cover the ground! I’ve often wondered if you made an ant to human scale, how fast they would be moving.

your the gigantic monster

You’re the monster chasing them Calvin

I’m late I’m late, places to go musn’t be late.

Busy road during rush hour? Dunno, just spitballing here.

Be funny if he had a stash of water balloons, and ambushed Hobbes as soon as they rounded the corner. Hobbes would never suspect a thing. Of course Cal would be emergency room bound.

Ah, youth. Wait till you hit 50. Things start slowing down.

Let’s hope those aren’t fire ants. Run away as fast as you can.

Probably looking to steal Garfield’s picnic.

I have read that ants never sleep. No wonder they get so much done.

Ants are most of the best collective societies.

Cal lives what he finds

At least he didn’t step on them.

Zoom?

Pay no attention to that recess bell, Calvin.

Mom and Dad didn’t pull the window shade all the way down and they are wrestling without any clothes on. Dilly! Dilly!

Well, Calvin and Hobbes are in a hurry somewhere, up to some more ant-ics, I suppose.

It cracks me up….

I have had several recent infestations of Crazy Ants.. Living up to their name.

Some of us could use that laser focus of ants on getting tasks completed.

This is the Calvin comic I love. :)

We all are ants on the global scale.

A’NT that hilarious. :)

I used to be friends with an idiot who drove like that. Almost sandwiched my husband and another guy between a semi and an oak tree- tried to pass it on rural road, driver of truck didn’t see them, but idiot couldn’t wait five seconds didn’t want to be behind it driving home from a bike ride.

Oh oh, wonder what’s around back?

♬ They’ve got a long way to go, and a short time to get there

That reminds me of a time when my daughter was young and my grandma asked me if she ever walked. I thought for a moment, then said “no.” She ran, skipped or danced but never walked.

Hobbes is getting the idea that all living things are running to get somewhere. Calvin being the leader, of course.

See this week’s arc in Frazz.

I have recent observations because of our current ant invasion. They meander all the time.

It was at that moment he realised…

Tell them to ‘walk, don’t run,’ Calvin. Those ants venture anywhere.

Oh, pot? Meet kettle …

The ants go marching one by one, hurrah, hurrah