Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 10, 2010

It’ll cost ya at least $5.

now thats wot i call an idea calvin :^)

I spent months on this!

Susie’s right……..

a month’s worth of work is worth at least…………………….

Just say you left it on the bus or at home, that might buy you some time.

That’s Calvin, never thinks but never gives up either.

You’re not going to like this days events much, Calvin. Just suck it up and take the consequences.

Calvin! You’ll be lucky to get a D-.

I remember going to one of the museum’s when on vacation with my parents. It had two rooms, one was full of all kinds of stuffed animals and the other was full of stuffed birds. I was in shock and ran out of the place screaming and crying. I couldn’t understand how someone could kill one of God’s perfect creatures and charge people money to see them! I never went to another museum like that ever again!

now he is ‘bugging’ Susie..

Anytime there is a bug on my bus, all of the kids scream, and I have to stop the bus, and squish the bug. I don’t keep them, but if I did, I would give them to Calvin. I have a kid just like him on my bus.

Whats your monthly allowance Susie?

It’ll cost you a lot more than that, Calvin.

Good morning to ALL! and stop bugging her Calvin! She’s such a nerd! Lol

Hey Calvin, check to see if Susie has a bee in her bonnet

CALVIN At least we know what you think SUSIE’s worth.

Like this is the first assignment you missed. Right!

And all this time, I thought a mother was someone who studies moths…

Who says Suzie’s a nerd? She’s a well-balanced kid who takes responsibility, enjoys school, enjoys her classmates, enjoys her teachers… in other words, someone Calvin should be learning from.

Calvin could teach her much too if he had her moral center, which is far from impossible for him.

Bill Watterson deliberately made Calvin into someone who did many things he himself would never approve of. Keep that firmly in mind before you take Calvin’s side.

You would have expected Calvin to enjoy collecting bugs :) Instead, he forgets :O Not like him at all O;)

Oh Calvin, you wouldn’t like Susie’s girly collection of bugs. She doesn’t have the really neat bugs a guy like you would collect. Tell the teacher a pterodactyl ate them.

calvin, use suzie for your collection, after all she has been bugging you forever

someone squash the pesky anti-calvin dweeby nerd poster johanan above - he’s really bugging me & I’m all out of bug spray.

Trying to bribe Susie to get a passing grade is disgusting. He should just forge his report card for free.

I’ll take Susie Derkins over Peppermint Patty any day.

I like Johanan’s input. Food for thought. Thanks, Johanan.

agreed, agpeter

Let’s see if that bargain can take place while in Bus itself..

Stop Bugging Susie about her bugs! Calvin

Don’t give up Calvin! There’s always a way keep thinking. Learning to deal with problems that seem hopeless to everyone else will take you a lot farther in life than this simple assignment was meant to.You are always going to be surrounded by those who say you CAN’T. Keep believing you can and you will figure out how.

Do as 6 year olds do. Just beat her up and take her bug collection.

Calvin, check the windshield and front grill on the bus, or stick your head out the window gritting your teeth, just don’t swallow any that stick to teeth.

Beating Suzie up is just not in Calvin’s nature. He’ll take advantage of her if he can, but he won’t hit her.

I know. It was just a joke.

Jeez! That IS what we’re supposed to do here. Joke around.

I didn’t say do as you always do. I said do as 6 year olds do, which… they do.

Maybe you can focus on coming up with your own comment instead of nitpicking mine.

Maybe 6 year old bullies do, but not all 6 year-olds are bullies… and Calvin is definitely not a bully.

A deal in the making ??

She doesn’t love him enough to part with her bugs? He’ll share his nauseating lunch with her if she’ll give him half.

They don’t beat each other up? All those snowball fights don’t tickle. I’ve seen the brutish side of Susie plenty of times. She is always walloping Calvin one way or another. That makes Susie a bully. She may have a few wallopings coming to her yet.

Calvin in training to become a currency trader for Citibank….

What he needs is a budding entomologist.

Isn’t she just Miss Goody-2-Shoes. I was more like Calvin – I usually forgot any assignment I had a month to do. Who gives 6 year olds a month-long assignment anyway?

Boys. lol ;)

Good morning Marg! (okay, I’m late)

Good morning Fran and the Kizzer!

Calvin has to hope for snow somewhere between the bus and school

What better way to say I love than “How much do you want for your collection? I’ll give you a quarter…or here, 30 cents.”

I think the scenario is perfectly normal - especially for a 6 year old, and especially especially for the times.

Remember, all these were drawn nearly a generation ago. This was before parents got monthly syllabi, daily status reports, e-mail blasts, online class videos, etc. In the 1980s kids would get an assignment and the parents would find out at report-card time (if ever) what it was. Or, if the kid asked for help, or the parent had learned that their kid needed something closer to daily homework supervision.

I get the same reaction to the commenters who said last week that Calvin’s parents are to blame for his not having done a bug collection that I get when people say that kids can’t play ball or put together a Double-Dutch team or learn how to build a model unless the parents organize adult-led teams and classes for them.

Is Calvin an insensitive, obnoxious dolt, or an opportunistic pragmatist? Discuss.

It will cost you your SOUL, HAHAHAHHA!!!!

love being a guy.. :D

Never put off til the last minute, that which can purchased on assignment day. Wall St., Madison Ave., etc. many opportunities await Calvin. That is what he is training for.

MrsLukeSkywalker: I’m glad to see your philosophy on jokes is like mine.

Aren’t we missing the obvious excuse?

Calvin’s pet tiger ate his homework.

Wonder if Hobbs had them as oer d’oeuvres before his tuna?

buy the susie shes cheaper

Good night ALL!

I feel the same way as Dino-1, but would also include people…of all ages inside and outside the womb…in that group of God’s “creatures’.

Ya…buy susie

everyone has a price; quick check your other pockets Calvin

Pretend you have a 100 dollar bill. Hopefully Susie will fall for that (not likely).