Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 04, 2024

He shouldn’t have used that flammable ink.

Disappearing ink…..

I’m sure after checking Calvin’s homework, miss Wormwood would’ve done exactly that.

This always reminded me of the Procrastination episode of SpongeBob. Is your homework catching on fire a common nightmare in real life?

So that’s why Calvin never cares to do his homework. All that wasted effort.

Happens to all of us at one time or another.

A disturbing dream I often have is working a spread sheet on the computer, and the numbers keep moving around, and none of the keys work to stop it!!!

Spontaneous combustion? Or just wishful thinking on Calvin’s part?

I bet it was Hobbes who did the work—and deliberately wrote in wrong answers.

He who fails to prepare must prepare to fail, Calvin.

Another episode: “I couldn’t read it because my parents forgot to pay the gravity bill.”

Is this where Calvin wakes up?

Catch the eleventy seven, quick!

Only Calvin

My Algebra teacher would give us the answers. all we had to do was show the work to get to that answer. made sense. wasted energy to solve and get an incorrect answer.

Your numbers up, Calvin…….

This paper will self destruct in five seconds (cue the Mission Impossible theme),

Liar liar, paper on fire!

Looks like the beginning of a longer strip.

Aww, I think Calvin is dreaming.

Why do I get the feeling that the last panel should say “to be continued”?

You need to know math in order to set the timer on the self-destruct mechanism properly.

Next, the smoke probably sets off the smoke detectors, the school is evacuated, and Calvin takes a bow.

This happened to me the other day, but with Latin instead.

Ugh, I HATE these kinds of dreams!

I love the shadowing in Panel #4. If I’m Bill Watterson, that made drawing this strip more fun.

The little-known Revolt of the Numbers!

What an imagination….

My, I hated school.

with all that smoke, he will activate the sprinkler system. Then, they’ll know he was telling the truth !!!

Much more exciting than ‘the dog ate my homework’

Spontaneous combustion Calvin? Really?

lets see the teacher explain this… assuming that actually happened. :J

Flash paper. Calvin has a side job as a bookie

Sometimes life conspires against you, Calvin.

I hate it when that happens…

That happened during my AP Calculus test.

Spontaneous combustion! I don’t think he’s ever tried that excuse before. It’s certainly as plausible as all his other alibis. (Insert proper sarcasm emoji here)

Eek!

Great excuse.

Looks like my paycheck

Calvin has a valid excuse this time

Duck and cover!

… Not that it will do any good.

Mine would always disappear into the depths of the book bag, never to be found.

You gotta give a kid at least partial credit for setting his homework on fire in class

At least the answers properly evacuated the paper before it burst into flames!

Oh, this HAS to be a Calvin dream. He will wake up soon.

For some reason I read and always believed that Bill Watterson was African-American and that he now lives in Cincinnati. Yesterday while watching a documentary, I found that grew up in Chagrin Falls Ohio and now he lives in a suburb of Cleveland. Although they did not say, his picture seems to be Caucasian. Does anyone have any information on where the erronious information came from? He did work for the Cincinnati Post at one time, but not sure if he actually lived there.

I hate it when that happens.

Ohhh yeah, this arc. This gets weird.

(I mean, more than usual.)

“We didn’t start the fire…”

Poor Calvin has the worst luck.

Good shadow effect.