Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 11, 2024

Check for a ransom note.

From a wedding to a motel to a crime scene. Some trip, huh guys?

I believe Dad is serious in Panel 2.

Ran out of tuna sandwiches, either that or the fridge was empty……

Hobbes may have got so hungry he busted out of there to find a tuna sandwich!

Well, THIS took quite a turn!

Maybe Hobbes broke out and went on a bender with Tigger. Tiger milk hangover perhaps?

I like this story arc. The emotions you feel while reading it…

First panel of next strip should be the Law and Order intro.

We’ll find the shredded remains of two would-be burglars…lol!

Looking forward to tomorrow’s run

Red Alert! We have a perimeter breach! Initiate lockdown protocol! Seal all the exits! No one gets in or out!

Aaaagh, that last panel always gets me no matter how many times I read it, I swear I can hear Mom’s voice and Calvin’s echoing through their house.

Ohh, that sucks.

Tragedy strikes! — maybe.

I was bracing myself for this part.

“This looks like the work of Susie Derkins!”

Calvin has priorities.

Oooo, did the squatters exercise their ‘right’ to claim an unoccupied structure?? Careful, Calvin and parents — you’re now trespassing…..

Calvin’s got his priorities straight!

I think I would prefer being burgled over going to another dam wedding.

All Dad’s got is “gosh it’s drafty in here?”

Huge ransom for Hobbes. . . .

OMG…. Hobbes !!!

Now comes a HUGE halfway plot switch! I like how Calvin’s running pose in the last panel looks very similar to the strip from September 24, 1987. (“A lot can happen when you’re gone all morning! MOMMMM!!”)

Just think of who would want to harm them?

Dad? Nobody.

Mom? Nobody.

Calvin? Wait a minute. This is going to be a long list.

just wondering if the glass is on the floor inside the house or on the dirt outside the house

Wait, this is the strip they run on a Saturday? That’s just cruel.

I really want to see what happens next

Somebody wanted Mom’s old manual typewriter from a few weeks back.

HOBBES!!!