Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 07, 2018

Use your house as a backstop.

Well, you could HIT the ball.

They can get Susie to play catcher.

Probably both actually.

or invent Calvinball…

I like how the tediousness is shown. Same for football with friends where the opponent always kicks the ball out way too hard and you have to go and get it to throw it back in. (Yeay, FIFA WC 2018 starts in a week)

I had the oposite problem with my brother and cricket, he always hit the ball too hard.

Get a catcher. The pitcher is supposed to throw it so it’s hard to hit.

Gotta wonder how this works. Hobbes is actually just a stuffed toy, of course. His actions are provided by Calvin himself, reified through his imagination. So how does he throw the ball past himself so far that he has to go search for it? I could see if maybe he was bouncing it off a wall and trying to hit it but we don’t see a wall, only the picket fence.

I bet Hobbes is throwing wild on purpose.

Comic strip imaginatory effects on reality.

Looks like a Charlie Brown pitch.

Time for Hobbes to paste that palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermous percussion pitch.

With this issue it certainly makes you wonder why in another strip they have over 25 bases.