Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 24, 2014

You have to admire a six-year old who can reference Thomas Wolfe.

Calvin your not gonna get away that easily,

When you step on that tail, you’ll also know what’s a hard landing.

You can’t go home again is not very fine, I know this!!

Actually, Calvin, by nightfall you Are going to want to go back home…changed, but still the same home you’ve always remembered… ;)

In today’s strip, Bill Watterson is borrowing a recurring theme from Peanuts (“You can’t go home again”), but he is giving it a new twist by having Calvin interpret the phrase literally as a six-year-old runaway.Charles Schulz was a great fan of Thomas Wolfe and read all four of his major novels, including You Can’t Go Home Again.Bill Watterson was greatly inspired by Charles Schulz when he was growing up.Click here: Peanuts (March 30, 1959)Click here: Peanuts (May 14, 1965)Click here: Peanuts (January 7, 1973)

Thanks Hobbes!

Calvin, you need to face up to your problems. It will help you to become a mature adult when you grow up.

Chuck Jones, I think once said, for every caricature you draw you lose a friend.

If he keeps his mouth shut when he gets home, he might get away with it? He was nowhere around when mom found it. But, he won’t take the 5th?

Mom will be happy that you’re not dead.

I believe you “Can Go Home Again”, but you will find that it has undergone an extensive remodeling or renovation!

“Tell that to my kids who…”Sounds like it’s time to raise the rent… A LOT!

Give it another day or so…

xxx

Technically you CAN go home again, but it feels like someone changed all the locks.

Please go home, all will be forgiven~~~~~~~~~eventually!

Look Homeward, Calvin