back in the 90’s i was a manager in a mortgage company and we had to work some satrudays. one day a girl overloaded the toaster oven and the thing caught fire. I , thinking quickly, grabbed a fire extinguisher off the wall, pulled the pin and let fly. I failed to read the instructions that said stand back 6-7 feet. i was a point blank range. it put out the fire but everything when YELLOW as i was caught in the back blast.
Panel 3’s quite interesting. We’re clearly seeing an image of Calvin’s daydream, but other characters visible in frame are not. Obviously Wormwood would be reacting very differently if she could see the flames herself, so two characters are perceiving two very different realities, and the reader is perceiving the main character’s version of events.
BE THIS GUY 8 months ago
Calvin has pushed Miss Wormwood over to the dark side.
codycab 8 months ago
“My tiger sabotaged my homework!”
Spacehog 8 months ago
Mrs. Wormwood is a pretty cool alien!
Sugar Bombs 95 8 months ago
Who else remembers being scared by this part when they read this story as kids?
SHIVA 8 months ago
This happens when you forget to take your meds in the morning!!!
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member 8 months ago
No jury would convict her.
BigDaveGlass 8 months ago
Come on baby, light my fire……
snsurone76 8 months ago
Guess it’s time for the straight-jacket and the padded cell.
saylorgirl 8 months ago
This one heck of a nightmare! Now Calvin really won’t go to school.
Harumph 8 months ago
She reminds me of Mrs. Doubtfire.
win.45mag 8 months ago
Sprinkler systems weren’t required back then, I guess.
kathleenhicks62 8 months ago
Calvin needs to wake up!
SteveHL 8 months ago
“Get the PTA!” is a great line.
KageKat 8 months ago
The mind is a cruel place!
PaulAbbott2 8 months ago
Meanwhile, over the school loudspeakers, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is playing (Google it, kids!)
SquidGamerGal 8 months ago
GAH! Why would he dream up something like this?!
jagedlo 8 months ago
Imagining what that final panel would look like in color…
Link from Twilight Princess (He/Him) 8 months ago
Oh dear god That is so freaky
Just-me 8 months ago
Calvin will wind up in juvenile detention before too many more years go by.
mindjob 8 months ago
It’d be great if the firemen show up, and they’re all aliens too
William Bednar Premium Member 8 months ago
Where are Scully and Mulder when you need them?
Wizard of Ahz-no relation 8 months ago
back in the 90’s i was a manager in a mortgage company and we had to work some satrudays. one day a girl overloaded the toaster oven and the thing caught fire. I , thinking quickly, grabbed a fire extinguisher off the wall, pulled the pin and let fly. I failed to read the instructions that said stand back 6-7 feet. i was a point blank range. it put out the fire but everything when YELLOW as i was caught in the back blast.
rshive 8 months ago
Things seldom go as planned. Eh, Calvin?
Gent 8 months ago
Aha. Just what the alien astronut theorists had always suspected!
Gent 8 months ago
Legend has it that Giorgio was her first student.
wstanley0418 8 months ago
Calvin was a very coolk kid. He just didn’t know it!
Robert4170 8 months ago
Calvin is the master of pretending.
Vgrift85 8 months ago
A lot like my 1st grade teacher….
John Jorgensen 8 months ago
Panel 3’s quite interesting. We’re clearly seeing an image of Calvin’s daydream, but other characters visible in frame are not. Obviously Wormwood would be reacting very differently if she could see the flames herself, so two characters are perceiving two very different realities, and the reader is perceiving the main character’s version of events.
g04922 8 months ago
LOL.. Calvin’s daydreams are getting out of hand…
jbruins84341 8 months ago
A fire on a student’s desk is a disruption? I would think it was more.
Tetonbil 8 months ago
Quite the ‘Trip’ our boy is on about today!
delennwen 8 months ago
Calvin should read the “My Teacher Is an Alien” books by Bruce Coville.
wiley207 8 months ago
Heh, in the last panel, the alien Miss Wormwood looks kind of like her original 1985 form, with the longer hair and bigger nose.
Funny enough, the fire alarm went off at my workplace today.
cbs1947 8 months ago
Looks like a delayed reaction. Calvin got into mom and dad’s gummies
viniragu 8 months ago
Yup, Sister Joseph in third grade!!!
Omniman 8 months ago
Never pour gasoline on a fire!
rmercer Premium Member 8 months ago
If this is a dream, it’s a REALLY GREAT dream!
cracker65 8 months ago
She’s going to have to keep a strait jacket handy for this young man.
Cathy P. 8 months ago
Men in Black, J’s elementary school teacher was an alien.