Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 17, 2012

With friends like Hobbes, who needs…

He could have just done Calvinball

He’s an animal Calvin, of course he took their side!

That’s mean! Poor Calvin!

This punishment is too cruel!

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That stings Hobbes.

So, did Calvin put himself up there dangling from the tree branch? Or did he imagine that Hobbes did it? Or…….Neither one. The only possible explanation that even begins to make perfect sense is that Hobbes becomes alive when he is alone with Calvin.

@cookies333: You are up late tonight also. SnoopBronco must be contagious.

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Seems all Calvin’s morals rest in Hobbes.

You have earned it, Calvin. It will build character.

Sometimes, the repercussions of thoughtless actions may sting a bit.

Calvin’s actions in the pastDid not make any sense.Now his punishment from HobbesHas made the present tense.Burma-Shave

I don’t have to be able to run faster than the bear. I just have to be able to run faster than YOU.

There was a dumb six-year-old guyWho kept throwing rocks at the sky‘Til one hit a nestWith more bees than he’d guessedAnd his friend left him hung out to dry

It looks like, very soon, the hornets will get together with Calvin and find a way to make ends meet.

Thanks, demtrug. It looks like it’s mainly you, me, and the Snoop Bronco who are the insomniacs tonight.Incidentally, just what is a Snoop Bronco?

demtrug?Snoop Bronco?Anyone?(Sigh)

Calvin must have very bad aim if it took him all morning to hit the nest

All in favor say AYE.

The motion is carried!

That’ll teach you to monkey around with hornet’s nests.

Way to go, Hobbes. Maybe he’ll learn something from this.

Some cry “Wolf”, others cry “Hornets”. Looks like Calvin has just been hung out to dry for a while.

Tigers and Yellow Jackets have similar coloring….I think they’re distant cousins. Hobbes was just “sticking up” for family.

@SUSAN NEWMAN: Actually, the old strips that I post are stored on GoComics. On my computer I save searchable information about the strips (thousands of them), but when I display a comic here, I do it by posting the GoComics link.

How did Calvin get up there by himself?

Anaphylactic shock waiting to happen.

If one of those hornets happens to be green, don’t worry…Cato will save you!

Run away.. ha ha ah aha ha poor boy..

Mom finds Calvin hanging on a tree branch with no shirt. Asks for an explanation and gets a story about rocks and hornet nests, and Hobbes protecting himself by sacrificing poor Calvin. Makes perfect sense.

What I wonder is how he has them all catalogued so the appropriate one can be retrieved so quickly!

Bill needs a more realistic feel for the size of tree branch necessary to hold up a 30 pound child. . . . C r r a a c k !

@aicarrie1,When Calvin told Hobbes about the hornets, he ‘went out on a limb’!

I like a five-line limerick “in anapestic or amphibrachic meter with a strict rhyme scheme”, especially when it’s clean!

@Hobbes,And the Burma-Shave poem has razor-sharp wit …double entendre humor, even (Snagglepuss)

Does not take long for a boy to learn two things about these so called bugs they are usually the right height to poke with a stick or throw stones at no 2 when mad these things travel faster than the speed of sound .

It’s your own fault, Calvin.

Love the last panel.

LOL xxx

Bill Watterson said in the “Calvin and Hobbes 10th anniversary book”. Page 22.“The so called “gimmick” of my strip-the two versions of Hobbes-is sometimes misunderstood. I don’t think of Hobbes as a doll that miraculously comes to life when Calvin’s around. Neither do I think of Hobbes as a product of Calvin’s imagination. The nature of Hobbes’s reality really doesn’t interest me, and each story goes of its way to avoid resolving the issue. Calvin sees Hobbes one way, and everyone else sees Hobbes another way. I show two versions of reality, and each making complete sense to the participant who sees it. I think that’s how life works. None of us see the world in exactly the same way, and I just draw that literally in the strip. Hobbes is more about subjective nature of reality than about dolls coming to life."Sorry for the long post! : )

I would like more Calvin and Hobbes going on tomorrow!!!

@orinoco womble (from yesterday),Your point is well taken, but I was thinking in terms of the recent situation in Greece where there were protests and some rioting because of the proposed government austerity measures to cut spending, etc. to be able to meet government financial obligations. Since Spain seems to be “socialist”, and taxes have been increased (not necessarily the best remedy during a recession), entitlements will have to be reduced, and other measures taken to make the government solvent, don’t the people have to elect leaders who are willing to do what is necessary, and don’t the people have to “bite the bullet” so to speak, which is especially difficult when there is 25% unemployment. The USA is heading for ultimate financial disaster as well with “unrestrained” government spending.Well, I wish you well no matter what happens!

It is not right throwing stones on the hornets nest but I’d not let them sting Calvin!!

Calvin will lern from thisCalvin is only a single one and hornets are thousends, they surely will survive. Calvin can only die for one time!!

I’d take the Hornet’s side too.

ha, look at him running from personal responsibility, he’d be a great republican.

It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.

Hung out to dry……….

Anyone remember the Farside cartoon of the hornet’s nest outside the picture window, and the hornets were throwing rocks at the window?“And the two species coexisted until one day——”

I’d be mad, too, if Calvin spent all morning throwing rocks at my house! And when (not if!) I caught him, I’d make his little fanny hurt worse than any hornet sting with the spanking I’d give him on his bare bottom!!! I’d probably be arrested for “assaulting” the little juvenile delinquent . . . but it would be worth it!!!!!

WOW! We have a bad reaction in common, but my story isn’t that good.When about 5 yrs old, the next door neighbor kid (named Wayne) took one of my toys. I chased him around our adjoining houses. He ran between a tree and the metal fence rail, kicking the fence. I followed. The hornets/wasps/bees – whatever they were – that lived inside that fence rail flooded out and caught me. I don’t remember anything after that except waking up in the hospital in an oxygen tent.Since then, on the occasions when I accidentally got stung (avoid them like the plague) – say on the hand – my arm from the elbow down would swell and I would get a bad flu-like allergy. Medication time.Isn’t life just so grand?!?!?

Well, maybe he won’t be stung if he holds still.

What would be bad…if the hornets decided to nest between his Calvin Kleins and Calvin butt.

It was nice of Hobbes to leave an opening so the bees can get to the most “sensitive” parts of Calvin! :-)

What a good friend…

he gave him a wedgie and hung him up so the hornets could finish him he kinda deserved that