Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 18, 2015

Get ready for more disappointments.

if you could get a little older calvin…tiny bubbles could make you feel happy…make you feel fine…even make you glad all over….

This is the way the world endsnot with a bang but a whimper. — T. S. Eliot(Eliot wrote these lines in 1925, before nuclear weapons were invented.)

In panel 4 of today’s Calvin and Hobbes, note that Calvin has magical hair. When he turns to speak to the reader, his hair doesn’t turn with him. It continues to point to the right.

Try blowing bubbles using nitroglycerin, You’ll get a bang out of it.

Like Arnold Schwarzenegger, he filmed a spot with some deafening explosions!

No wonder, when world would end, when you look and see, what’s going on, it wouldn’t be a wonder!!

Just who does he think he’s talking to? Maybe Hobbes isn’t his only imaginary friend. Maybe he imagines that he’s in a comic strip, and there are imaginary people who read this strip on-line every day.Maybe he’s real, and we aren’t.

Try sittin in the back of a Bus when a tire explodes!

battle of plattsburgh: In the last panel, Calvin is looking at me.

Yesterday I was surprised how much of a ‘boom’ I could get just by dropping a hardcover book on the floor—as long as it lands nearly flat. :)

Hunter7 said, about 9 hours ago@whalemanI was reminded of the strip “9 Chickweed Lane” where the wearing of certain undergarments rendered the wearer …. a feeling of being able to tackle any task. And as we all know… attitude goes a long ways.

So if Calvin believes the underpants are lucky. Then they are lucky.

Don’t you have something that when you wear or hold or think about makes you feel more confident?

That Depends…

@midas: But, if Calvin were looking at you, then the name of the strip would have to be Calvin and Midas Welby. Just doesn’t have the same ring to it……

@phylum,“with a feeling that I’m gonna love you to the end of time.”That’s what Calvin wants to sing to Susie.

“So with vigor and vim and vipIt’s a pleasure to take a sipof a cold Nedick’s orange drink.”Calvin’s little “bip” reminded me of this old jingle from around 1950 when I listened to New York City basketball games, especially the Knicks. “Be one, be Knick, be one.”

@LeadingEdge,KA-POW!!! Batman doesn’t do “bip”. Calvin’s a wimp, in comparison, even as Spaceman Spiff.

“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!” said another cartoon character in a plaintive voice.

“Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!” said another cartoon character in a plaintive voice.

I used to love blowing bubbles as a kid.I had a big wand with heart shapes on and I was always hoping I could blow heart shaped bubbles but they always came out round. Oh well.xxx

I knew a science teacher who would blow bubbles with a small amount of natural gas mixed into the air – then hit them with a lighter.

If only you were Spongebob.

It might not have been much to you, Calvin, but I’m quite sure a mosquito passing by is now deaf.