Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 30, 2024

One is gross and the other is a garden slug.

Yup, that will ruin everyone’s appetite

Does the booger die from salt?

No difference as long as both grossed her out!

You have done it again Calvin.

If the person is sane, the booger won’t be a living creature.

At least it wasn’t about lunch.

Calvin broke the fourth wall more often in the early years…

What makes a booger come to life??

A while back, Mom attended a parent-teacher meeting. Apparently, it was a waste of time, since there is NO change in Calvin’s behavior!

Did Calvin eat his booger?

They’re both the same….I’m never looking/touching a garden slug ever again

The living booger makes your nose itch.

I’m trying — I really am trying to decide which is the more obnoxious…Calvin or Hammie. They both make me appreciate having raised a dog.

Nice treeck to gets and eats all her foods.

The flirting just goes on.

Let me guess-Suzie is the booger.

Actually, the first is the socially acceptably term for the latter.

One of my favourite UK comics as a boy was a weekly comic called Monster Fun. The final issue of Monster Fun was dated 30 October 1976 – an appropriate date for the last issue of a monster-themed comic since it was the day before Halloween.

One of the comic strips inside Monster Fun was called Teddy Scare and featured a boy named Eddie Bailey whose teddy bear would come to life and turn into a King Kong-sized bear. One strip had Eddie spot two bank robbers running out of a bank. He placed his teddy bear in their path. The teddy bear turned into Teddy Scare and chased the two robbers into an alley. Eddie Bailey told some police constables were the robbers had gone. The police found the two robbers trapped at the end of the alley and cowering in fright from a little teddy bear.

That strip was a little like Calvin and Hobbes but also very different. Watterson would explain in The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, “I do not see Hobbes as a stuffed doll who miraculously comes to life when alone with Calvin…Calvin sees Hobbes one way. Everyone else sees Hobbes another way.”

Don’t let me know when you find out, Calvin.

Living boogers don’t die when you salt ‘em !!!!! ( I’ve tried. )

Is Calvin some kind of dark creature who feeds on the misery of others?

This sure is classic, real-life first-grade behavior, isn’t it. First-grade boys, that is.

Classic Calvin!

It’s ALIVE!!!!!!!

Cal obviously has recovered from yesterday’s feeling that going to school was a waste. Now he is into new material.

EWW is right!

I’d give this one a 288

This strip was originally printed in newspapers on my second birthday! (November 7, 1990)

One of the foremost responsibilities of Calvins and Hobbs exclusive club G.R.O.S.S. is to make sure you (Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS) any way possible. Could be his view of the “cootie” effect. Hmm.

Remove the 2 inch long booger and you can breath. Now flick it at the slug.

One is a mollusc. The other is imaginary.

Susie’s only choices are to sit with Calvin, sit with Moe, or sit alone.

Sitting with Moe is clearly out of the question.

As an adult I quite enjoy sitting alone most of the time but at Susie’s age I can see where it’s not healthy.

So sitting with Calvin is the least bad option. But it’s still not good.

He’s a booger alright ! ;-)

I like the way their lunch is packed in paper bags with lots of love from moms.

True, but this is VERY funny. All the times he tries to gross her out, well this is the TOPS!

One’s a real thing and the other is fictional.

the booger won’t die if you pour salt on it

LOL… Calvin needs to learn to write horror novels… Like Stephen King.

The garden slug is more beneficial for your flower bed?