Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 16, 2010

As you should….

I agree little fellow. Your best friend has great value.

aint no calvin and hobbes without hobbes

A not countable value - but nothing, a burglar can make money out of!

Very valuable!

Haven’t you checked your room yet Calvin.

of course he’s valuable.. mhh have you look up your bed?

Calvin finally realizes who his true friend is……………………..Good job, Cal….

He IS valuable.. How would life be without Hobbes..for all of us?!?!

The burglars didn’t take that ‘easy’ chair. I guess it would have been too ‘hard’ to take, or they have discriminating taste. Calvin, have you checked your bed? Maybe there’s still a tale/tail to be told, but that’s another ‘story’. Well, it’s upstairs, isn’t it?

Yes he is, Calvin! As long as you know that fact!

Mom was trying to make you feel better at the time Calvin. I got yelled at good by my granddaughter today and she told me I was bad. While straightening out my granddaughter’s bedding Elmo fell on the floor. She had wrapped him up in her blankets to take a nap and I missed it. I hurt Elmo when he hit his head on the floor and I could of broke his arm or leg, I was told! She’s three and spent about a half a hour rocking him and rubbing his head trying to calm him down because he was crying! I had to apologize several times to Elmo and hug and kiss all his boo-boo’s once I was told where they were so he could calm down!

aww that’s swweet

I’m with you all the way here, Calvin.

(Psst! He probably slept through the whole thing!)

Best things in life are free.

@Tineli: Could have sold it to Uclick Gocomics and made a fortune. But we know better :)

Hmmm… I can’t see anyone’s comments…

V

Why has guilt turned to blame. Oh year, Calvin. Right.

@xrat: That’s it! rofl

Yes, I remember this comic now, they stole the propeller beanie and used it to stop the Great Gulf Gusher.

As a matter of fact, probably most valuable thing in premises.

i am feelin sorry for calvin……….it’s clavin’s second time leavin hobbes alone!!!!!

Oh Calvin, I hope you find Hobbes soon.

Even though he sometimes gets on your nerves .. thats how friends are eh Calvin? dont worry am sure he is doing something to nerve you again and you’ll have a good laugh! :-)

Hobbes can’t be valued….. such a friend…

That’s why we call some things priceless. Without price. I’m sure Calvin feels that all the tea in China wouldn’t be worth the price of his poor Hobbes right now.

Mom forgets the difference betweeen worthless and priceless.

Man-up Calvin….just go to the store and get a new one.

A friend will help you move ………..A real true friend will help you hide the body….

moronbis said, “Best things in life are free”.

The Hawaiians have a saying: “The best things in life – aren’t things.”

Sentimental value is hard to put a price on.

a broken heart already…. :(

Poor thing… :(

< crying loudly!>

SNIFF! It’s sad when you lose your best friend.

poor Calvin! don’t be sad, Hobbes in under the covers! Still, it’s hard to lose your best friend. Esp, imaginary ones - oh wait! Most of mine WERE!

I know what happened, but I don’t want to spoil it.

I said yesterday that it’s a dog-eat-dog world. Check out today’s Mutts.

I can’t believe a comic strip brought tears to my eyes!

Hobbes must live on.

(((((Calvin)))))

I laugh and cry when I read Calvin and Hobbes. I laugh because I remember having small boys and how they think. I cry because my Dad loved the strip and I miss him.

shieldsdk: I’m sorry, but it doesn’t work that way. You just can’t go to the store and buy a new Hobbes, a new teddy, a new bink, a new anything else. If it’s lost, stolen or destroyed your child is bereft. There is no replacement. It is their first (and I think one of the worst) heartbreaks. You really can’t get it back. Will they get over it? Sure. But, a replacement is not the answer.

Oh, Calvin ……………….. my heart is absolutely broken for you right now!

Calvin, my advise for you is to go throw yourself on your bed and have a good cry. I’m SURE it will make you feel all better.

He’s probably just going to take his true friendship for granted after he finds Hobbes.

Ahh, the tender hearts of children. How often adults forget that they too had hearts like this, and misunderstand (and in some cases mistreat) their children as a result. The Biblical perspective calls that multi-generational sin…..

to GweedoMurray: 9 Chickweed Lane is still around? I used to enjoy that very much until Houston Chronicle quit carrying it something like 3-4 years ago. Chronicle has always been pretty crappy on judgment about which comic strips to carry. Will try to look up 9 Chickweed Lane.

trust me, calv, we all do.

I am crying with you Hobbes. =*(

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!! sniff

True value cannot be counted at the bank.

@dudeabideshou, you can find 9CwL over at comics.com, or at Yahoo comics

Once in a while we get to see and experience the pain and sadness Calvin goes through as a little boy that Watterson conveys through this cartoon that is different from most…like the one where he found the baby raccoon that could not be saved…who could not be touched by these stories even if they are just a comic strip?

Calvin without Hobbes?! Blasphemy!

I think I saw him listed on eBay!

;-)

Calvin looks so pitiful, it breaks ones heart.

Question for the publisher, has Mr. Watterson passed on? Is he on extended Sabbatical? I read these comics (for the last months it seems now) in my Calvin and Hobbes Anthologies YEARS ago. I’d like to know if I can expect new stories, because I can re-read these any time I want. Thank you.

poor darling is breaking my heart!

dudeabideshou

9CWL also at The Miami Herald. Top one in the list!

kokopele1

C & H not new in twenty or so years!

Well, I’m glad that I’m not the only one getting my heartstrings SEVERELY plucked by this story line! Was starting to worry a little…glad to see there is lots of sympathy, empathy, and caring out there, even if only for an imaginary (sort of..) duo…

Mr. Watterson is thankfully still very alive kokopele1, but he decided to stop publishing new strips quite a while ago.

Add me to the list of those who got shocked into real sadness when I saw this unusual strip … no punchline, just time stopping and the surroundings disappearing.

To caricature a face or even a personality in ink is one thing. To capture an entire state of being (for Calvin, a lonely end-of-the-world mourning state) is to reach entirely different level.

Hey Calvin, my kitty was gone for two weeks, I was broken hearted too. She came back and the world was ok again she is VERY valuable and so is Hobbes. Best friends have special bonds. Hell return I know it!

Day After Day:

“I remember finding out about you Every day, my mind is all around you Looking out from my lonely room, day after day Bring it home, baby, make it soon I give my love to you

I remember holding you while you sleep Every day, I feel the tears that you weep Looking out of my lonely gloom, day after day Bring it home, baby, make it soon I give my love to you

[duel slide guitar solo (Pete Ham and George Harrison)]

Looking out of my lonely room, day after day Bring it home, baby, make it soon I give my love to you

I remember finding out about you Every day, my mind is all around you Looking out of my lonely gloom, day after day Bring it home, baby, make it soon I give my love to you. ” http://s0.ilike.com/play#Badfinger:Day+After+Day:62631:s39718620.10680170.17988938.0.2.81%2Cstd_d805d233a2ad41858a186eda00d1616e

@PTui2, agree with the Hawaiians.

Now there’s the sensitive mom we will all recognize!! Poor Cal – I hope he finds Hobbes soon!!

I have to say, this is what really made this strip stand out. Calvin’s antics and bad behavior were always funny, but Bill Watterson also really gave him a huge heart.