Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 13, 2010

A major glitch…

To much information. Calvin, I am ashamed at your lack of planning. Your whole approach was to obvious. This was one of your worst planned escapades.

Susie’s not as “blonde” as you thought she was!!!

uh-oh Calvin… you could have done better…

MLady, no but Calvin seems to be.

Calvin, tut-tut. You can do way better than that.

Maybe you should just work on improving your aim, Calvin.

Good Morning, marg & LuvH8

‘Morning, Grog!

In this case you don’t have a snowballs chance of getting her!

You should have lured her to the spot, not asked her.

Good Morning All!

Calvin, if Susie knew of your plan, the tooth fairy would have made you rich.

Calvin! Your plan was doomed from the start.

You can’t ask a girl to do something without a reason. She will never do it. Moreover she will be on guard.

Calvin should have given any silly but tempting reason. Like asking her to guess how big it really is OR if she thinks there is a hole in the center of the ‘X’. That would have worked.

even if she DID stand on the X, Calvin’s aim sucks. He’d probably get buried under his own snow balls.

Hello Grog & Everyone!

Leave it to a smarty-pants girl to spoil all the fun…..

We cal always try again, can´t we, Calvin?

It’s just as well Calvin, Susie would have beat the snot out of you had you succeeded.

In 20 years they’re either going to be married, or she’ll be a judge, and he’ll be standing before her as defendant. Could go either way.

I had a similar experience with a friend who wanted me to stand on one end while he jumped on the other thinking it would catapult me through the air like on the tv programs. It didn’t work the first time because the board broke. When we found another one he found he couldn’t jump on the other end hard enough and he hit the ground a few times in the attempt. He tried all kinds of combinations with our other smaller friends but he never did get it right. All was not lost because we took turns trying all sorts of things on the other end and sending them flying.

Calvin, last week you sold your soul to hit Susie with a snowball. What do you have to sell now?

we’ll. I am really enjoying all of this. Your comments are sometimes better than the actual comics!!! thanks for the laughs….

Calvin, you should have told her NOT to stand on the X.

He must have been watching too many Road Runner cartoons.

Getting the Road Runner to stand on the X never worked for Wile E Coyote either.

women dont like high-handed men anymore. calvin, you should be in a romance cartoon, try that on Yenny.

Ray C said: ”Calvin, you should have told her NOT to stand on the X.”

BINGO, Ray!

aww, Susie is such a spoilsport.

ejmM, Look what always happened to Wile E. The snowballs would have probably ended up on Calvin!

Come on, Calvin, Susie’s not stupid.

Calvin we got lots to learn about girls ,thats part of growing up to be a teenager

“When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it’s a pretty certain sign that she has his.” Cdward is wrong in predicting that in 20 years Calvin and Susie will be married. Calvin and Susie will always be six years old. [Luckily for us!]

Too obvious. No doubt, she saw the catapult. She’s no dummy.

Shika, certainly no crash test dummy.

He’s obviously madly in love with Susie!

Lololololol! It stinks when your target won’t stand still in the crosshairs!

Calvin and Susie ARE NOT IN LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT NOW, NOT EVER!

Get lost Susie!

Compliments

Oooo, I found a funnier version of the dinner one.

Don’t click unless you LIKE Calvin comics.

Dinner

There is an odd sort of darkness that has been creeping into this cartoon of late, or is it just me that has noticed this?

@ Mrs. Walker Hmmm if only mom could repackage her food and sell it to the military. Secret weapon lol.

I would love to see Calvin and Susie at 18 or so. Susie runs rings around Calvin. I want to see how that looks 10 or 15 yrs down the road.

khpage C&H has always been dark. He’s no Dennis the Menace.

mrsluke: funny clip.

Littledutchboy, it really would be funny to see. I bet she married Moe, if they would have gone past 6, that is. He’s more on her level.

khpage, Calvin always WAS dark. It’s hard not to see it after even a week of being a new reader.

Check this one out:

That’s hilarious, and it’s TOTALLY Calvin.

Lol Calvin, next time you can say ¨I kiss you if you dont stand in the X¨ I sure that her do it. :)

Mean ole Susie – refusing to be target practice. Calvin just can’t win with women – Mom or Susie.

“Not now, not ever”? And all in caps, too? My, my, Mrs. Skywalker. Stranger things have happened, and often in just this ironic way.

There are enough hints dropped in the history of this strip to make the majority opinion more than defensible.

Johanan,

I second thet motion.

J.R., You’re entitled to your own thoughts on the subject. I don’t see the “love”, ever, in any of the strips, except that he loves to get her goat, and he always does, and she hates his guts. I’m not arguing with you, I’m just saying, here’s some of my evidence, show me yours. I provide plenty of it, but I never see anyone show us proof of this so called infatuation that a few of you talk about. I know none of my nephews like anything to do with girls yet, and some of them are now older than Calvin. Not to say it never happens, because me and my “Calvin” got married under the clothesline when we were 4, and it was all his doing. So I look forward to your showing me which panels cause you to believe this about Calvin & Susie.

That’s how children that age tend to show affection. When confronted with a new and unfamiliar emotion, they react in a way they are comfortable and familiar with. Of course, they don’t know they’re in love, yet.

That’s opinion. Show me proof of this so called infatuation. There is none. Watterson didn’t put in this strip. It is never alluded to or implied. Just the opposite is. You can imagine it exists, but people also like to imagine what happens in the comic world after the comic is over. That doesn’t mean it’s part of the real story.

Of course mrslukeskywalker, that’s your opinion.

Oh, it’s not proof. Just a possibility. Actually a likelihood.

We’d just have to go for the ‘hit the kisser’ shot again Calvin ..

@mrslukeskywaker, there were a few of the St. Valentine’s Day cartoons that had them being happy that “He noticed!” or “She cares” or things like that. I’m with thebird55 on this one. Not that he showed it often, but it was there at times.

Foiled again.

this is my THIRD time reading this comic today