Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 29, 2024

Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

Your diving score is a 9.5…..

He just wanted to provide some entertainment for the rest of the class.

Spider in his underwear?

Calvin was so enthralled by the math lesson. Yeah, that’s it.

Testing the limits of gravity, perhaps?

You bowled me over with the simplicity of the explaination.

Could’ve. Didn’t.

It’s one way to get a rise out of a dull school day. Now, let’s see if Susie is concerned whether Calvin in injured.

If Calvin is lucky (or unlucky) enough to get a desk job, he will discover seats that lean back without having to balance on the back legs.

Our kid did that once. Leaned back further and further, then BAM! Then had the nerve to say, “Someone pushed me!”

It shoulda.

Poltergeist!

Calvin. The lean years.

They must be studying gravity. It’s a weighty subject.

Maybe you shouldn’t stay up so late!

Obveeously it was a earthquake.

You’re saying it didn’t?

Remember the one-piece desk/chairs? Stand up too fast and it’s Face meet Floor.

Calvin was reading something shocking and disgusting.

Musta jumped right off the page!!!!

This was my youngest son and my youngest granddaughter. It must run in the family.

I recall an event when we had our granddaughter (about 6 or 7 at the time) sitting on the sideline with us as her older sister was playing some sport. She kept leaning back in her chair and we kept warning her. Then we heard the plop and looked over to see two feet sticking up over the tumbled chair.

Her response was “Too much?”

Cal generates ‘accidents’ to order.

Impressive book that made his chair tip over!

Another rerun, but suuuuure it could…..

It also could’ve been trying to get a scholarship to Klown Kollege.

He fell asleep and then woke up with a start.

A muscle spasm that violent should be checked out medically, Calvin. Time to see the doctor. Maybe he can give you a shot of a muscle relaxant.

It’s too bad Watterson closed this strip before the arrival of Support Animals. Hobbes could have been such a good Support Tiger.

Just blame it on COVID, Calvin.

Terrific animation!

That’s what he said

first day of first grade. My mom was looking in the side window after dropping me off to see how I would handle school and I was leaning back in my chair and fell over. It was all downhill from there.

Tip your chair over in class? Right to jail…

It could have . . . but did it?

It could have. But this is Calvin.

Twitchy little guy !

If that’s a new dance craze, it won’t catch on

My guess is he was already leaning back in his chair and went too far. But hey, if blaming it on a homicidal textbook is your thing, go for it!

School can be hazardous to your health.

I’ve read books with good parts like that. I couldn’t put it down, even after I fell out of the chair. I had to read to the end of the chapter, while lying on the floor.

In school, I would read while keeping half an ear on the teacher. She never could surprise me.

The most embarrassing thing is when there is a really funny passage (as in P.G. Wodehouse books) and I wound up laughing out loud in a suddenly very quiet classroom.