Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 23, 2012

You can’t control your thoughts. Your thoughts control you.

Calvin would get his comeuppance if the monsters captured him.

Love Calvin’s expression in the 3rd panel

Luck, when there is a Momy to cry to!

Pray to mother Mary, when there is no Mommy!

You have to defend against them like Bogarts, imagine them in a humorous, embarrassing condition.

poor Calvin where is Hobbes to night ?

The monster would be happier and less threatening if he could get a manicure.

WOW…0_0…that scared me, and I’m 42. Calvin may need professional help down the road….

Looks like Calvin could use a Vulcan mind meld to convince him that monsters are not real.

Liar liar, pants on fire!

WHAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!? Pants on fire?!?!?!? Aaaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhh….no wait, stop drop and roll….again…. keep rolling until the flames are out….oh, wait…it wasn’t me….sorry for the drama….(blushing)

One of those disturbing realities of life — what if a monster’s existence doesn’t depend on our thinking about it?

Click here: Peanuts (November 14, 1968)

Click here: Pearls Before Swine (July 16, 2011)

Needs tiger for protection !

Mom better bring a mop with her.

PT: Mark Twain revisited; the monsters deserve Calvin. Wonder how much they would pay for his mother to take him.

I have a clan of monsters under my bed. It’s called memorabilia.

Love the last panel…

Poor Calvin.

LOL xxx

i have monster dust bunnies that live under my bed.

Calvin’s acting like a Mama’s Boy!

Calvin hollers to Mom just because he’s in mortal danger. He should wait until it’s life threatening. Mom can’t come running for every little thing! :o)

Poor Calvin he will never know if hes got the monsters under his control ,or will they sneak out if he falls asleep?Moms help is only temporary in this case.

Nope that just doesn’t work, Calvin. I’m almost 80 years old and I still can’t shut out monsters at night. But now they are called Wall Street, Foreclosures, the National debt, and election day.

Kinda reminds me of the ID, in “Forbidden Planet”.

What is it with kids seeing monsters in the dark? I had the same problem. Is it over imagination or what?

That’s the closest we see of the monsters.

Jeez, how does that big monster fit under the bed?

i think, therefore they are…hmmmm. Obviously “they” aren’t paying any attention to this….

Unfortunately, the monsters that live in the reality around us are much scarier than the monsters in our dreams and imaginations!

 

:-(

I just remembered a Robert Sheckley short story where the heroes were in a similar condition. They hid under the blankets until dawn.

Those claws look suspiciously like socks…

Hey Calvin, I found that sometimes you just have to give the monsters a High Five. In the face. With a baseball bat. Go get em

This reminds me of Calvin’s fear that God may be a gigantic chicken. The monster under his bed seems to be some kind of vengeful chicken as well, if the claws are any indication. Maybe Mom cooks a lot of poultry.

hi katie