Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 01, 2011

Fear & Loathing in the Walmart parking lot!

What an innocent face. How could it possibly have been him?

Check for paw prints on the steering wheel.

I thought it was illegal to leave underage kids in a car by themselves for even a short time

Wonderful playing with Hobbes, Mom, don’t disturb!

I remember how my brother LOVED to sit behind the wheel whenever we were left in the car……

play together bilateral ?why escape alone , Calvin

She needs to go back and get some Midol.

Sure blame Hobbes Calvin…your best friend.

Sure, blame it all on Hobbes.

My parents used to leave us kids in the car all the time. There was nothing wrong with it back in the ’60’s.

How does a school bus full of kids “dives” from the sidewalk? And what is a school bus full of kids doing on a sidewalk in the first place? Shouldn’t it be one the street? And shouldn’t it be swerving onto the sidewalk?

Yes, these are old strips. The artist “retired” from drawing these years ago. But they’re still hilarious. I’m just thinking that Mom better never leave her car keys behind when she goes into a store with Calvin still in the car.

With horrible parents like his, it’s no wonder why Calvin acts the way that he does.

those days are gone forever

@afficionado And COMIC is the operative word. Some people forget that a COMIC is like a joke. It doesn’t have to be reality; just close enough to make the PUNCH LINE work. Really.

Mom doesn’t understand…

I tried multiple times to change my avatar today to reflect that Halloween is now over and Thanksgiving will soon be upon us but no matter how hard I tried, every image I selected gave me an “error failure” message (and yes, I made sure every single image was under 2 mb as the site instructed). Anyone else having this problem today or is it just me and my computer stupidness is acting up again? Thanks!

Mom will be so thrilled when she turns the key on and finds the turn signal on, and the windshield wipers on, and probably the radio turned up full volume, and…

Red Phantom, THANK YOU. I utter this sentiment every day while reading through the comics and comments. IT’S A COMIC.

Whoah! I’m afraid of that kid! LOL!

What the heck is she doing leaving a 6 year old alone in the car, even for a moment, let alone a monster like Calvin?!

Awwww, Leave him alone Missus, He’s being imaginative.

xxx

It was Hobbes blowing the horn I seen him doing it.

Just wait until Calvin gets his driver’s license.

Even as a preschooler and living in the country I used to wander as much as a mile from home. Great way to learn land navigation. However, since then deer have made a comeback which attracted preditors (sp?) such as coyotes plus now more two legged preditors – it just isn’t safe to leave a kid outside in less than a fenced area. Goodbye to Eden.

As opposed to “creditors.”

When I did it, many years ago, I put the car in gear and rolled down a hill. Mom should be Happy Calvin only blew the horn!

Jeeze Louise Mom loosen up. And by the way, leaving a 5 year old in a car alone these days would get you arrested. However once the cops met Calvin they’d roll up the windows and lock the doors too.

might be a comic but I could not imagine a mother leaving a child like this one in a car alone for 2 seconds let alone to “run an errand”. EGADS!

Reminds me of the response the fox made to the farmer when the fox was hiding in the henhouse: “nobody here but us chickens”. Or the other old saw when stopped by the police: Nobody was driving officer, we were all in the back seat" ….

@NURBZ: I realize I’m commenting long after most of the commenters are no longer gonna read this, but I’m 72 and when I’m in Miami, FL and waiting for the G Bus, which takes it’s time coming, once in a while I ask someone driving a car who’s stopping at the light by the bus stop if he can take me. They often do – it helps that I speak Spanish – so far I’ve never had a proble.

O o a mad lady’s hijain mah car

Going “faster” than 90 mph?

Reminds me of the G-minor piano sonata of Robert Schumann (1838), where in the first movement we find “as fast as possible” and then “faster” followed by “still faster.”

BTW, why is Hobbes talking as though he is narrating in 3rd person?

Bill Watterson is making sure the reader knows Hobbes is doing the actions, not Calvin. Also, it seems funnier than if Hobbes said “I put on the turn signal”, etc. That is my opinion.

It’s a good thing he never tuns 16.

Poor Hobbes is the beloved playmate, the right-hand man, and the one to blame whenever something messes up. (Case in point.)

WOW!!! Just in time, Mom! The police were after us and everything!

Hmmm… Hobbes performed the sensible actions—LOL.

Am I the only one who noticed how the dialog in the second panel “worked” together?

love Calvin’s innocence