Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 25, 2010

Yeah, aliens just crave our currency…

yeah dad… and Calvin will then come and tell you they have held Hobbes as hostage and ask for another million…

Ha ha, nice try.. pretending to be alien huh!

Wow! Calvin is so helpful, what a nice child. (giggles)

blackmail him Calvin.

The trusty old greenback is good in outer space as well as around the world.

Good morning Mike Firesmith and Lucas!

It’s hard to find an ATM big baked potatoes can use…

Good try, Calvin!

I hope all you Canadians had a great Victoria Day weekend. My family and I sure did.

Dad is not buying his theory. Once he tried this on his mom as well.

I’ll give you an A for effort, Calvin, but you might be the one who’ll get hosed.

I suspect their ship sort of looks like an ice cream van!

Just spray Calvin with the hose.

Calvin’s plan is all wet already.

Dad will regret for not giving Calvin the 10 dollars when they shoot them with laser guns

come on calvin.. fight them with your guns and save your dad’s 10 dollars

But Dad? They have ray guns and they’ll settle for $5.

let’s see if there’s a chance to get those 10 bucks : I’ll try this one with my boyfriend asap ^^

Good morning to all! Hey Calvin, grab the hose and wash the car for your dad and maybe he’ll give you a dollar. I think he’ll go more for that than the idea of giant baked potatoes from outer space! What an imagination!

Calvin offer them Dad for their spacecraft. You’ll have about as much luck with that then trying to get money from dad.

Now what would baked potatoes want $10 for? Ice cream bars?

G’Morning Mike Firesmith and Loki.

Speaking alien languages … just another talent of Calvins.

Is this the one where he sells earth?

I think today’s strip as well as the comments have been most enjoyable.

Thanks BW and everyone here.

Gosh, only $10? If they’ve traveled over galaxies to get here and $10 makes the trip worthwhile, the exchange rate to their currency must be very favorable.

Dam*n the torpedoes! Bring the big guns. Break out the butter and sour cream! We won’t go down without a fight!

give it up dad or calvin might nail you with his transmogrifier and take more than$10

At least the aliens we have, now, are willing to work for money. These new ones from outer space are really lazy!

Hey send the aliens back our jobs are going over to them. School is out here in parts of KS.

Mmmmm…. Baked Potatoes……

Calvin wants ten dollars lol. I wonder if Hobbes helped him make those.

I’m amazed at how calm and considerate Calvin is in the face of an invasion from space aliens.

Does anyone realize that Calvin is a fictional character and therefore cannot hear or understand any of the comments that you are mindlessly directing toward him?

Note to algurka: The aliens we have now are, for the most part, illegal. Some work for money to send home, and a large percentage, live on food stamps, free medical care, local government assistance, and federal tax credits w/out tax payments.

OneCroatian said, about 1 hour ago

Does anyone realize that Calvin is a fictional character and therefore cannot hear or understand any of the comments that you are mindlessly directing toward him?

No, you’ve got to be kidding me! Calvin can’t hear us! I’m stunned. I don’t believe you.

Say it ain’t so, Calvin!!!

Big baked potatoes with laser guns? That’s a Sontaran, you just need to hit them in the back of the head with a shovel. Easy peasy.

Hey OneCroatian are you really Sheldon Cooper? You sound like him. I watch you every Monday night.

It’s all about the Hamiltons…

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy!

I work nights now. THIS is morning.

Oh, give him the $10.00! It’s either your attention or your money, and he never gets any willing attention. He probably needs it to buy that new flame thrower he’s always talking about getting.

Isn’t this daily “GOOD MORNING” club on every comic getting old yet? Do you copy and paste the same message every day or do you keep typing it out fresh? It reminds me of Junior High and High School cliques, where only you and your buddies count, and everyone else here, is treated like some loser that you can’t be bothered with. It was as rude, unfriendly, and un-cute then as it is now. It makes me wonder if the other 50 of us are even allowed to read your posts.

margueritem said, about 15 adynatons ago

Yeah, aliens just crave our currency…

Hey, it makes more sense than an alien lusting after our women (or men, for that matter).

OneCroatian said, about 3 chidings ago

Does anyone realize that Calvin is a fictional character and therefore cannot hear or understand any of the comments that you are mindlessly directing toward him?

Do you never shout at the television set? During a horror flick, or sports game, or anything? Same here: it’s the willing suspension of disbelief that brings us to see Calvin’s escapades as real and present.

OneCroatian said: Does anyone realize that Calvin is a fictional character and therefore cannot hear or understand any of the comments that you are mindlessly directing toward him?

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen something like this from you. This is supposed to be a place of fun. Why are you here trying to spoil it for the rest of us???!!! If you don’t like what we have to say then why don’t you skip the comments section completely because this is just what we do ………. we “know” these “people” and we “talk” to them as though they can hear us. It’s just FUN!!!!!

Not to be TOO political about it, but Calvin’s requests sound much like those of many such requests coming from our government. Create a false crisis, then demand money, or at least expect that it would be automatically forthcoming as a matter of ordinary business. Now that I think about it, the Mafia worked that way too, didn’t it? Or do I have that wrong?

Calvin ISN’T REAL??? CALVIN, DID YOU KNOW THAT?

HAHAHA!

I prefer Calvin to almost anyone else, living or drawn.

HEY CALVIN, WORK DAD OVER FOR ALL HE’S WORTH!

I’m going to yell at the TV now, as soon as I’m done yelling at the radio. ; )

I think that’s the difference between the people who post funny, interesting comments, and the people who tell everyone else who join in the enjoyment of the comics to “Get a life, it’s just a comic.” We’ll talk to anything, and they don’t know how to talk, so they heckle in annonymity.

dad wants to ask him do you think I just fell off the turnip truck.

Calvin, don’t do that!

(I’ve tried it, it doesn’t work)

Mrs Luke is right – Dad must owe him far more than $10.00 in attention deficit. Thank God the kid has a good imagination, otherwise he’d really be lost.

they call their world Lar Sin E.

margueritem, of course they want our currency. They know one day it’ll be a a rare thing to actually have.

I already made a comment! Somebody must’ve lost it! bleeep communists!

Ten bucks seems a trifle greedy for the time period in which this was originally written. What on earth does Calvin need the money for? Scary……

the trouble is Calvin. Your Dad’s known you your whole life.

Always trying to help.

SONTARANS!!