Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 23, 2018

Well that’s your elevator Calvin.

The boy is trying to use gravity as an aid.

For someone with such a vivid imagination, Calvin can be really dumb sometimes! I predict that he is going to grow up to be one of those “Here hold my beer types”! He won’t make it to old age!

“Again”?! Actually, that makes sense.

is he bowing to the Great Master Staircase?

Want a moving sidewalk, Calvin? Go live with George and Jane Jetson.

And another good reason I’m glad I didn’t have kids.

Watterson refused to consider an animated Calvin and Hobbes, and yet here he seems to have done most the work to make it happen. Just hire an in-betweener to smooth out the motion.

Calvin would find a way to mess up an elevator.

We know now, why he is such a difficult kid, falling on head so often leaves its traces!!

Nobody can say that Calvin didn’t use his head once in a while.

That might explain why Calvin is so weird.

looks like a slinky to me!

Some people are like slinkies. Not good for much, but they bring a smile!

When pushed down the stairs.

Can you even GET a real metal Slinky any longer?

Funny thing is, adults Calvin’s parent’s ages would likely be considering putting in an elevator if they wanted to stay in their two-story home nowadays. Or, some way to get up and down the stairs without the risk of having happen to them, what Calvin had happen today…

And, those are some unsafe stairs without any kind of handrail…

It isn’t everyday you get to see the Building Code used as the basis for comedic effect in a comic strip. Next week? Federal banking regulations.

As a kid we made lots of contraptions out of ropes and wheels and wood, but never a human slinky. I feel deprived.

A handrail on either side of the stairs would be a great idea.

Having read Watterson’s commentary on how he managed the size of Sunday strips, you can really tell the difference between them. Early ones have throwaway gags in the first two panels (since some newspapers wouldn’t print the whole thing) and later ones took advantage of all the space

“Aunt Bunny fell down the stairs, Aunt Bunny fell down the stairs”

Watterson did his own animation.

I remember the Slinky craze. I also thought a Slinky “walking” down the stairs was the stupidest thing I’d ever seen – even as a kid. As a matter of fact, I was never that impressed with a Slinky. But the original Duncan Imperial yo-yo. Now that was a kid’s dream come true, even though in the days of my youth they cost the princely sum of $0.98.

surprised dad didn’t respond: “you not in it” ☺

Elevator? I’d think he’d want a firepole!

I don’t see any handrails! What negligent parents.