Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 10, 2014

…best laid schemes of tigers and boys…

You are right Hobbes, Cavin’s mother will be bothered. Also molested, angry, irate, and in a very dark mood.

The best laid plans of mice and boys… ;)

As Harry Anderson always said, “Well, we didn’t expect that now, did we?”

Dad was off by about nine years.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/05/25#.U5aerZRdWfM

(today’s strip originally aired in 1989)

@SydneyCityTVYes, that is a date of 1994.1994 Watterson Distributed by Universal Uclick.Is it healthy for me to read that small writing?

I wonder just who does not put their car in Park?

So what with the reruns. Why criticize a creative genius for something they do all the time on television?

Looks like a Chevrolet Chevette. Owned a couple of those

what should calvin do ?

So mom leaves the car unlocked so a 6 year old can get in it, take it out of park and push it out of the driveway? Hmm, who’s fault is this? LOL

Hobbes’s comment in the second panel is one of my all-time favorite C&H lines.

Love Hobbes’ tail bushing up.

So something CAN go wrong.

Could be the car is either a Ford, GM, or Toyota. Just be happy the car doesn’t explode or catch fire.

Even after 20 years, it’s still funny!!!

…and WHO left it in neutral?

Looks like Calvin’s clubhouse plans are rolling right along. Gaining momentum, even.

Now days they have to have the key to get it out of gear.

I remember this happening in a Leave It to Beaver episode.

….only when it hits the neighbors tree across the street!

I’m sure the car will stop on its own exactly where Calvin wants it to be.

Them ’81 Mercury Lynx cars were easy to shove, manual transmission, center-console parking brake, psh !

Just to be clear:This strip originally ran on May 23, 1989, and first rerun on June 7, 1994 (that’s =before= Bill Watterson’s retirement on December 31, 1995). For some reason that escapes me they decided to update the copyright notice. Trivia: note that the scans of the strip on all three versions are different.

Now Calvin, learn a lesson from this:Newton’s first law: a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

Don’t fight gravity; gravity usually wins.

This probably happened during a personal sabbatical (unrelated to the licencing fight). Watterson mentioned in one of his books that Universal Press Syndicate gives all their cartoonists four weeks of vacation per year.

The smart money will bet on her being bothered!

Umm… Oh dear.

xxx

One of my kids put the car in gear on an incline outside a store once. I bolted out the store, couldn’t open the door as it was approaching a pole, got behind and stopped the car before it got into traffic. Then pushed it back and parked it, parking brake on.

“What could possibly go wrong?’

Famous last words…

This has got to be Calvin’s fantasy and not real. First you need to put the car in neutral and release the brake.You also need the key to unlock the gears.

Ya think?