Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 13, 2009

Great landmarks, both!

…and comment, and comment, and…

cowboyeddie said, “Wow! People actually comment about a comic strip?”

Been doin’ it for over 50 years! It’s half the fun!

Yeah of course! (: haha I love this

How would you know BtBGuy? That was your first comment too. Sometimes the comments are about each other… it helps to be funny.

Reminds me of a Steven Wright joke - “I have a map of the United States. It’s actual size. The scale says ‘one mile = one mile.’ When people ask where I live, I say, ‘B4.’ ”

Oh and here I thought we were close, but I am in the “W’s” of the word states.

Home, sweet home!

“By the giant letter E” would place Calvin’s house somewhere in central Kentucky. And here I’d always thought his family were Yankees!

Just trust the wagon. It knows where it’s going.

Who needs Google Maps? Calvin and Hobbes got their own system!

Still looking for the funk & Wagners!

There’s a “W” in “States” ?

Maybe in one of the fifty United States, perhaps Washington or Wyoming.

I guess they had better trust the wagon! :))

They have to trust the wagon’s UPS!! (Universe Positioning System)! :)

It’s impressive that Calvin has studied an atlas, most kids when asked to identify the locations of other countries usually put them in the silliest of places and not always as countries. Sigh.

<<Hopes he made no spelling or punctuation mistakes, but is too lazy to check!

Comics can be (not always) the most pertinent commentary on contemporary society. They deserve the comments of the readers. I get a lot out of some comments.

Eskimo…go there for another trip..north/south pole is the best sign of climate change

The question is .. Do you see the ‘E’ Hobbes? same goes for the purple country .. ;-)

Judging from the swirling clouds in panel 2 it looks like typhoon season in the lower latitudes. Hope they don’t run into turbulence after reentry. Actually, hope they get through reentry. Hobbs might get his fur singed.

VistaBill : Letters to the editor for the first forty, I presume.

MorganZ: Yes! Texas but formerly of D.C.

Huston we have a problem… …we are out of tuna.

cowboyeddie: the comments actually turn into chat forums, they are even bigger than the comic at times:) hey all, what’s happening?

purple country K-State !

Can’t even call Houston… Calvin forgot the radio. Maybe they spend a week globe trotting in their wagon until they get home.

I bet there’s more than one purple country in the atlas – er, world. If he gets the wrong one, he’ll have to spend another whole week trying to get home!

I wonder if they’ll end up in the right place. Remember Mom probably has dinner ready. I hope it’s not that green slop he hates so much.

Not much Nimas, Just reading the important funnies before starting the day. What’s happening with you?

Going even smaller - the first time I traveled out of state as a kid, I really expected an obvious border or even a entirely different look!

lol - me too. I was disappointed when there was no think black line, just a road sign saying “Now entering Oklahoma” Hope C&H can find the right ‘box’ to land in.

On my map that would put Calvin in Nebraska.

You can tell that this is an old comic because the United States is still a nice blended shade of PURPLE. Since then, the purple has fractured into REDs and BLUEs.

I miss PURPLE.

Oh! To be a kid again.

the best part is not writing but reading the comments. guess u all agree wid me

btw, cowboy eddie, this comic is the MOST commented on i have EVER read! and they can be the best part! enjoy!

Amen Stede_Bonnet!

all this talk lately about travel, i need to take another road trip, ahhh where to this time old man?

As long as you have a couple of hours of fuel left, you ain’t lost, just a little confused, maybe.

VistaBill, love your avatar.

Remember, it’s FraUnkenstEIn.

America is definately color-coded and easy to spot from space….purple mountains majesty….amber waves of grain….various shades of fruit on the plains.

@ k9mac Go check out Pibgorn - it usually has PAGES of comments.

aha!— finally figured it out!– looks like calvin lives in Cinncinnati:

http://www.theodora.com/maps/new5/802649.jpg

We all love the comments. Especially our own

We are just a clever Tribe, Crew, Gang, Mob, etc

I’m wondering how he is going to explain this to his mom as to where he’s been this time.

Not just kids…even adults place Rome in Venezuela. I’ve heard that in the US, the majority of people can’t identify “England” on a map of the world – because it’s been renamed the “UK”. Geography should be a required high school class again.

Pacejv said, “Still looking for the funk & Wagner’s!” It’s Funk & Wagnall’s! Maybe that’s why you are still looking for it, unless you are using a play-on-words I didn’t get. :o) Are you new, here? There seem to be several, today.

By the way, apparently Calvin uses Funk & ‘Wagon’all’s!

In my Atlas, Elbonia is also purple. Hope you brought turbans, guys. Lower Slobbovia, is purple, too. Fortunately, Hobbes has a fur coat.

Wow! People actually comment about a comic strip?

This is nothing. Check out Pibgorn; 300+ comments is not unusual.

So what you’re saying is that we Humans have more than one way of royally messing things up.

Calvin was trying to flee from more than he realized.

Pacejv - That Funk & Wagnalls - and its a dictionary !!!

midiranger, there was a Sniglet years ago for Gapiana, the area between the “You are now leaving” and the “Welcome to” signs for the states.

Hobbes will at least find a neighborhood with tuna in it.

Well, they at least know where they’re going.

If Calvin lived on Vancouver Isl he he would find home real easy Might not have traveled so far for peace and natural beauty

Ooooooooooooooops. Almost lost you when I switched from earthlink. Calvin and Hobbes are the consistent bright spot in my day. Thanks

Plenty of people comment, @cowboyeddie, but nobody gets a word in edgewise before Margueritem.

Isn’t amazing how much Bill W. manages to say in only a few tiny frames?

Proof that “more words” does not equal “better”.

;-)

Margueritem’s opening comment two days ago at Pibgorn made me blush.

Calvin needs to switch the view from “Satellite” to “Map”

Another comic with plenty of comments is Big Top.

“A picture is worth a thousand words”. Sometimes a few words are worth little or nothing. It depends on the content, and how the words are written. Cogent Modality counts for much. By the way, I like that name. “There’s Something About that Name.”

cowboyeddie: Whatever you do, stay away from Dick Tracy!!!! Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

i awesome

Or something like that

Kentucky is yankee country if you remember your civil war history.

CogentModality said, “VistaBill : Letters to the editor for the first forty, I presume”

Nope. Talked about the strips at work.

Didn’t Tom Sawyer go up in a hot air balloon and expect to see the states with their distinct borders and the colors they were on the map at the front of every elementary classroom?

A fruited plane? Wasn’t that a DC-3 carrying Carmen Miranda?

A fruited plane you say. Wasn’t that a DC-3 carrying Carmen Miranda?

I’m with Stede_Bonnet, too… not that that has anything to do with this strip… just saying. I usually enjoy the comments, too, although I rarely leave one…

Should’ve brought a map.