Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 09, 2010

Thank you all for the nice welcome back. I’ll have to let you know before I leave next time! I may go to Lower Slobbovia, you never know.

Good plan C.

Calvin is afraid of that good ole Hobbes’ welcome???? Pouncing Tiger!!!!

Marg—–we really do miss your comments! xoxo

I think I remember this arc….’nuff said.

Dad is looking what’s the time. I think it’s not the same to him what will happen to Hobbes, he will look after him too!

Marg: I had a look into my biggest atlas. I could only find Sloboda in Russia, but only with one “b” !

Good idea, Calvin!

Hi, Marg!

LX013 there is no such place. Al Capp made up the country for his ‘L’il Abner’ cartoon many years ago.

ML, I never have seen Jacob’s lake. I’ll have to ask my friend if he’s ever seen it.

Funny… that little twinge of concern when your comment wasn’t there, Marg. Glad you’re back.

I love the combination of Dad’s boredom, Mom’s emotion, and Calvin’s complete absence from the present circumstances. Calvin… always plotting!

I like Calvin’s rapid changes of thought and emotions.

Marg: I thought so!

A 6 year old could care less about all that mushy wedding stuff.

Let’s see. Dad walks through door, no Hobbes. Mom steps in, no Hobbes. Calvin carefully sticks his head in, looks both ways, sets one foot inside,——

MARG I still can’t find the Grand Canyon in Afghanistan in my 1976 atlas. Are you sure the CIA didn’t drug you? And about L’il Abner, although I’m much to young to remember, Al Capp created that guy with the raincloud over his head (told you I was too young to remember) after me.

Wonder why church weddings and funerals seem to have so much in common….

If there’s anyting Calvin could ever care about is Hobbes and his ownself. He’s really sweet when it comes to Hobbes.

I wouldn’t worry about Hobbes being home alone, afterall he’s a tiger. I can see Hobbes finding a credit card in Dad’s drawer and ordering a tuna pizza and watching the wildlife shows on television!

Good morning to all! Let’s see. Mom’s mad at Dad who’s bored out of his gourd and Calvin’s mad at everybody. Then Calvin’s worried as Mom slips into weeping and Dad slips into sleep. What is Calvin in the last panel? Thoughtful? Or simply being quietly evil. Anyway, it IS Dad’s fault.

Why is it Dad’s fault? Calvin forgot Hobbes, he was dragging his feet getting ready to leave so Dad (on the highway so probably a fair distance from home) was already running late, and they don’t hold weddings up just for one couple and their 6 year old! So the fault is Calvin’s. Children do need to learn cause and effect and taking responsibility for their actions. Too many no longer have been taught that, to the detriment of themselves and anyone they care to “interact” with…

Maybe this is the lesson he needs. This is how kids learn responsibility, by enduring the consequences of their mistakes (as long as they’re not life- or limb- or health-threatening, of course). I love Calvin’s mind. “I think I’ll let Dad go into the house first.”

Brewster and then Calvin this morning. Two coffee spurts already. How much do new keyboards cost?

poor hobbes. if he cant find the credit card and order his pizza he might have to eat the furniture.

Spammers invading comics is like Calvin being an angel…it just shouldn’t happen! I actually put up the strip in my classroom because it SO reminds my teenage students that they aren’t the only evil imps in the world!

If I remember this segment correctly, it goes into some real grieving by Calvin before it’s over. Right now, he’s thinking the first person to go into the house will be eaten, and dad’s the most expendable.

There’s going to be trouble… if you don’t want to wait to see how this ends, look up C&H, April 24, 1989.

Church weddings and funerals have a lot in common????

What is it with the bashing of marriage today, people?!? First over at 2 Cows and a Chicken and now here. Honestly, some of us seem to have been permanently seared in our minds by Andy Capp and the like.

That rant said…

(stomps off for his morning CocoMocha in hopes it’ll calm him down)

I love the interaction of these three characters here, too. Very plausible, unfortunately, for some people.

At six years old I wouldn’t have needed a Hobbes necessarly - I could’ve pulled a Spaceman Spiff arc and done just fine. Unless, of course, I missed my beloved Snowy (a teddy bear) at such times more than I remember.

Maybe you’ll meet a girl there, Calvin!

My husband and I are celebrating our 21st anniversary in two weeks - we’re HAPPY!!! I guess we got it right….and OUR marriage is NO funeral - guar-on-teeeed…!!!

I love the Mom’s look (glare) at the dad in the first panel…

Actually it’s Hobbes’ fault. If he hadn’t been sound asleep with only his tail showing, none of this would have happened. But somehow, I don’t think he’s suffering much for his mistake.

Hey, maybe that’s the overall message of C&H:

While it’s unfair that sometimes we suffer for others’ mistakes (which is bad), by necessity that means that sometimes we DON’T suffer for our own mistakes. Which is good!

I f Hobbes could open the door and get out, one growl inside a grocery store, and he might get all the tuna he can hold.

Hobbes will be fine, he’s probably still sleeping.

Good Morning Mike Firesmith and Loki. Good Morning C&H fans.

Was a light left on for Hobbes?

Flagged x 3. Stupid spammers, I think THEY should go in to meet Hobbes first…

Rise22 - CONGRATULATIONS! Excellent post! We celebrate our 25th in August and, yes, through all the rough times, we realize that each other is NOT the enemy - usually it’s external forces. It just provides the opportunity to teamwork through the situation.

Funeral or wedding Hobbes is a lone in that house at night. If you go to lower Slabbovia look up an old friend of mine,names Lonesome Polecatt.

Congratulations to both Rise22 & treBsdrawkcab I and my husband had 29 years last April. I agree with marriage comes good and bad. I told my husband doesn’t seem like we’ve been married that long just seems like yesterday. Well for us sickness is coming my husband this time has to have a heart check up heart catheterization. And where we live there are only two places that does a dye injection for the heart. Gonna be a long day. Not sure if I will be working at my pt. This is a switch I’ve had two repairs surgery’s now he sees about his heart. At least my husband doesn’t smoke.

Calvin relax get your mind off Hobbes he might leave your comic collection alone and weddings don’t last forever dad you should know that. Let mom have some time to enjoy the festivities.

We celebrate our 21st in August. We said the first 99 years are the honeymoon stage … then 30 seconds to reconsider, then the next 99 year “lease” begins …LOL.

You just have to resolve and commit that this is going to work and you will both work it out. (We both decided divorce was not an option for us…) Yes, there are times you don’t “love” each other, but you are COMMITTED to each other. You work on your own feelings and improve them, and the other person responds. You don’t try to “change” the other person - change yourself instead. When you are BOTH committed, it makes a world of difference. If it is only one of you, I truly sympathize and hope you can work it out. And even if you cannot, do not bash or abuse yourself emotionally (or physically), just do better the next time around. But never jump into anything, at least not without doing some prelim counseling first (& not 8 minutes before the ceremony.)

OK, rant aside. I miss my wif while she is visiting MIL with our kids up in Los Angeles (I’m in San Diego) … glad I never had to get a traveling job. Looking forward to chasing her around the house later … ;-))

Actually, a real Christian marriage and a good Christian funeral both do have a lot in common: hope and joy and anticipation. However, we so rarely see them that way, for some reason. Which is our loss…

And I agree: Calvin has no interest in the wedding and other such mushy stuff.

hey, calvin, things could be worse,at lest your parents didn’t make you COMB YOUR HAIR.

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I’ve been married 38 years now. When we took our 2 & 5 year old boys to a co-worker’s wedding, the oldest waited till that hush as the bride gets to the altar and the music stops and the congregation starts to sit, then loudly asked, “Is she having a baby?” Then when HIS oldest was 5, she was a flower girl in a cousin’s wedding. Zoey got up to the front and luckily one of the ringbearers provided a distraction as Zoey had pulled up her skirt & was, shall we say, “digging around.” Her mom hissed at her to behave and she loudly announced, “But mom, I have a wedgie!” (The ringbearer had not been told at rehearsal that there would be a huge flash going off in his face as he entered the sanctuary–he threw the pillow-and-ring high into the air and turned tail and ran. They never did get him to come back for the ceremony. The other ringbearer ended up carrying both pillows/rings.)

The look on Calvin’s face in the second panel reminds me of my grandfather for some reason…

pomdemonium, not there’s a wedding we wouldn’t be bored at. The reception must have been an anticlimax.

Let’s see. Dad’s asleep, Mom’s crying & Calvin is about to blow a gasket. Looks like a normal family at a wedding to me.

Life is 20 yrs in Canada. To stay together is easy when you can not afford a divorce because your too poor.

Hobbes is asleep. He’ll never even know they were gone until they’re already home.

Coulda been worse – coulda been left home with Roz.

Jacob is right. I’ve seen Calvin with combed hair, and it makes him look weird and feel rotten. So things could be worse for him.

Dad seems to be wishing he had a friend like Hobbes too right about now - or, any friend! I love the way Watterson goes to the trouble of making Mom and Dad be real people. The three of them in the last frame are picture-perfect.

Why is mom crying??

MontanaLady said: Calvin is afraid of that good ole Hobbes’ welcome???? Pouncing Tiger!!!!

More like … Hungry Tiger!!!!!

Five7 said: Why is mom crying??

If you have to ask why mom is crying at a wedding … then you couldn’t possibly be a woman or you’d understand!!!

Kab Buch: I know what you mean! My husband and I will celebrate 22 years of wedded bliss this coming December and it seems like only yesterday we got married too!!!!! BTW: Good luck to your husband on his cardiac cath procedure.

dad’s bored too