Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 18, 2016

Mrs. Wormwood has pretty good reflexes. I guess she needs to with Calvin in her class.

Eeyikes, how high up is that classroom?

You got to be pretty quick to be a teacher.

So close!

Zondarg’s are lightning quick. Spiff should know that.

I must’ve tried that more than once… but I was too fat to fly! (grin)

Na. He realizes he’s caught. At that moment, the fantasy ends and reality intrudes. This is experience talking ;)

Suddenly our hero encounters a massive gravity force pulling him back, back, back into the horrid arms of a Zondarg, determined to suck his brains from his head and replace them with Zondarg propaganda!

@Vonne AntonYour comment made me smile and laugh.Especially after I just had read the daily quote on Doonesbury, which came from Ted Cruz:“We’re going to have an election, and if liberals are so confident that the American people want unlimited abortion on demand, want religious liberty torn down, want the Second Amendment taken away, want veterans’ memorials torn down, want the crosses and Stars of David sandblasted off of the tombstones of our fallen veterans, then go and make the case to the people.”—Sen. Ted Cruzhttp://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/

Zondarg propaganda feels lame and tame compared to America’s very own basement brew.

in our present, calvin will have a gun, and miss wormwood will have a gun. and, there will be a standoff. good guy with a gun can beat a bad guy with a gun. and, jack booted thugs of the gov’t.

My old grade school had up/down windows, and 2 stories. It also had the old metal stair fire escapes. The lower stairs on the fire escapes have been removed — get this for safety!The windows now have stop blocks so they cannot be opened all the way. The new (1963) part of the school has the fold out windows and huge glass block windows for “natural” lighting. Someone was thinking green 50+ years ago!

Calvin is ADHD. I look at him, and I see myself at that age.

@mattro53There is a possible explanation:Cruz is a Zondarg, left behind by the Zondargs, as they could no longer bear him on their spaceship mission through the universe, and none of their onboard insecticides proved strong enough.The Zondargs figured that placing him on earth would massively reduce their future invasion costs. But now they see him, they decided they will no longer come near the infested rathole.So, in short: Praise Cruz for saving earth from his brethren Zondargs.Praise Zondarg Cruz!Praise Zondarg tRump!Hail!

When he was in high school, my son had a substitute teacher one day which meant the class was a study hall. He and two of his friends went out the ground floor window when the teacher wasn’t looking and came back to class. This would not have been so bad except they didn’t get caught until their third attempt.

We got a call from the school about it. We promised we’d talk to our son about it but told them, “You have to admit, that was a good one.” They agreed. My son also promised not to do it again.

I can’t complain considering all the other kinds of trouble he could have gotten into.

I love it :)

I had a friend actually do this in high school. It was a literature class. We were telling a group story, each student following the lead of the people before and adding their chapter. My friend stood up and was pantomiming his story as he talked and, when he came to the part where the hero made a daring escape, he leapt out of the 2nd story window. The ground outside rolled away from the building in a smooth, grassy slope and he simply rolled with his landing and then sauntered away. The teacher was in turn terrified and impressed.

Welcome to reality Calvin. There’s no escape no matter how much you try.

From the looks of the window, it looked 1 story high.

No wonder Sarah on Rex Morgan wanted to skip 1st grade. What if she had had to sit beside Calvin?

Like I did in so many days at grade school, I’m outta here!

Quick, Calvin! Yank off the shirt!