Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 09, 2017

That’s what your ears are for. Also, your eyes should’ve figured it out when everybody started leaving the classroom.

You scare them all, Calvin. So they just leave the “weird kid” alone.

Lunch bell? What lunch bell? There’s no lunch on a lifeless planet.

They probably did tell you but your were on the Planet Zok and couldn’t hear them.

Don’t forget, when you’re on an alien planet, you will probably be lunch!

I had a history teacher back in the day who would not wake you if you fell asleep in his class. Quite the contrary, at the end of class he’d quietly usher your class out and, equally quietly, usher the new class in without waking you. Talk about an odd feeling waking up in a classroom of students you KNOW you don’t have classes with.

The perils of a fertile (call that fractured) mind

Answer me this: If he’s stranded on an alien world, how does he get off in time for the next Spaceman Spiff story?

But Calvin, you were having such a cool fantasy. We didn’t want to interrupt.

Well, hurry up, Calvin, or your lunch will go to waste

The term “Zokkian landscape” cracks me up, for some reason

They did.

You just weren’t listening as usual.

xxx

You can tell how old this strip is: “Extinguish all smoking materials.”