Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 18, 2013

If you don’t like storms, Summer would be ten times worse.

I’ll skip this wind, thank you very much!

Who knows, what summer will bring!

April showers bring may stay indoors.

In Washington State, they have only two seasons: winter and rainy — although they never figured out which is which.…And where I live, it’s just Spring, Summer, and Fog (although they do tend to merge together sometimes…).

Pilgrims?

Spring is just a promise for summer and lazy evenings on the porch.

…how many times must a man look upBefore he can really see the sky?The answer my friend is blowin’ in the windThe answer is blowin’ in the wind

Mayflowers bring Pilgrims. That’s an old. old joke.

In Montana we have two seasons, Winter and road repair.

In Vermont we have Winter (I think it is finally over) then Mud season, then Spring for maybe a week, then Summer.

Spring in St. Louis:Monday high temperature = 45Wednesday high = 84Friday high = 50Monday high = 70and so on and on…

Here’s one for dukedoug, JoanHelen, and anyone else living below the equator:Click here: Peanuts (November 11, 1964)Click here: Peanuts (November 3, 1968)Notice how big Snoopy’s head has grown in proportion to his body by 1977 (below). He kept changing for the first 25 years of Peanuts, and then he looked pretty much the same for the last 25 years. Similarly, Calvin and Hobbes changed in appearance during the early years of the strip and then remained pretty much the same. “Comic strip evolution.”Click here: Peanuts (June 8, 1977)

@CalvinMind if I take some of that Heavy Rain Storm off your hand…??The weather here in Singapore needs some major cooling off…

Here’s one from this past summer (this past winter for dukedoug, JoanHelen, and others).Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (August 6, 2012)Summer seems to have its problems for Calvin, also.

Note: The original date on the Calvin and Hobbes strip above was August 3, 1992. We are reading the reruns 20 years and 3 days after they were published.

Reminds me when I was in college at Ball State Univ. in Muncie, Indiana. We had the ‘Muncie Monsoons’, it made it real interesting getting across the main parking lot from Howick Hall and Studebaker Hall to get to the main campus.

We didn’t have summer in Edmonton. We had winter followed by Spr-all.

here in central Maine, the general consensus is that we have 8 months of wintah, & 4 months of bad sleddin weather. This year winter just doesnt want to give up. Its still in the 20s through the nights

I think we are still in Kansas Toto.

I agree with you Calvin.

May flowers bring love blowers.

You’ll be crying when it gets to hot.

With winds and rain like that IT AIN"T SPRING!!!! IT’S STILL WINTER IF THERE’S SNOW ON THE GROUND OR NOT!!!!!

How did Bill Watterson know that the first 4 panels is what’s predicted to happen in MY neck of the woods today?!? Fortune teller or genius?!? In the event he’s a fortune teller, I need him to come over to my house and help me select numbers for this coming Saturday night’s $95 million dollar Powerball drawing!!!!! ;-)

B/t/w: I may just end up doing panel #5 too. As long as it’s not bad enough outside to lose power or spawn a tornado, I can think of worse ways to spend a stormy-weather day than by reading a really good book while waiting for it to all just “blow over”!!!!! ;-)

I live south of Austin, TX, and summer gets rather brutal here.

I bet Hobbes like Spring… Or Summer a lot more where he can sunbathe.

That is if he doesn’t get too boiling because all of his fur.

LOL xxx

The grass is always greener …..

It could be worse. You could get over a foot of snow in April.

My thought exactly, Calvin. I truly hate the constant, strong winds of the desert southwest spring. They make it nearly impossible to enjoy the warmer temperatures, when they occur.

Never too hot? Come live in Calif, arizona, nevada or Utah.

We had a flurry of snow flakes this morning in northern Oklahoma. Didn’t last long, but they were real FLAKES!

I love the heat. Can’t stand the cold.

As they say in California, if you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes.

Springtime in Montana

I had no idea Calvin lived in Michigan!

Allergies!

Allergies.

Best timing ever for this comic! :D

So that’s how the seasons change. Because Calvin says so.

Me too

But spring is so much more interesting.

I live on a island in the pacific we have no mosquito bugs,not enough sun shine or hot weather for me.But if you go inland the bugs live there.

Calvin looks like he is breaking wind in the 3rd panel!

looks more like monsoon

Best to live in the Present! Yesterday is the past; it’s done. Tomorrow is the future: unknown. Today is a Gift, that’s why it’s called the Present!

The trees are sneezing again. ;-)