Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 25, 2020

Start high so you’ll get a good amount after negotiating.

Take your time, Susie. It’ll come to you.

That is just evil and mean, Calvin.

Oh dear……

Adjusting for inflation, something worth $100 in 1990, when the storyline first ran, would have almost doubled to $193.

Ask for your life. Calvin. With luck and good will, you may just about get it.

One hundred billion dollars. Moo hoo hoo ha ha!

Good morning ….is anyone having problems with viewing the website?

I hate to ask what they’re cutting up to get the letters.

Sometimes I worry about Calvin. Hobbes needs to stop egging him on.

When “cut and paste” involved actual scissors and paste.

Yes!

Calvin is definitely flirting with death.

What kind of name is Binky Betsy???

She doesn’t deserve that kind of heartache. Maybe Hobbes is due to be a victim…

“For how much should we ask?”

I can see the comic. Maybe that’s mostly because of time difference.

Do you think we should cut off a leg or something to show we are serious?

Yes, no images with Firefox or Edge. Only viewable with Chrome.

Most kidnappers would have the note ready before they kidnap someone.

I use Chrome and none of the ones I follow are working for me except one that I don’t think I should mention.

A life of crime never pays, Calvin. You’ll see.

yep

The ads show up fine, so I guess that’s what’s important…

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I guess our venerable Mr. Watterson was playing the audacity/humor of Calvin in this “dollnapping for ransom” story arc. I’m challenged to laugh this time.

Suggest a trade for the tiger. Smooches for Hobbes, all day long!

Calvin better his mother doesn’t catch them . . .

Use the C-note to take out health insurance, Calvin.

Calvin and Hobbes, two partners in crime.

Good thing they didn’t kidnap her Bruce Willis doll.

oh sure, taking Binky Betsy seems innocent enough. Next thing you know, Calvin’s kidnapping the Lindbergh baby.

The bad thing about living next to a troublesome neighbor is simply living next to them. The good thing about it is that you usually know whom to blame for neighborhood mischief.

The cut-and-paste magazine letters were always a favourite of younger me.

Too bad someone hasn’t ran some better ideas past Calvin first.

Heh, the last panel seems to foreshadow that story arc from November 1992 involving the insult letters made from letters cut from a magazine!

NO!

Binky Betsy? Who knew Susie could be so twee?

Round up the usual suspects.

NOPE.

Methinks Calvin is on an intersecting path with a woman scorned. Be afraid Calvin, be very afraid.

Typically, I don’t use ransom notes.

Somehow, I think this is going to backfire on Calvin.

There’s no way Calvin could ever call Susie a blockhead with a straight face.

Calvin has a Rain Man-like sense of money.

You’ll “get” far more than you bargained for, Cal…just you wait! :D

The tiger can no doubt spell better than him.

At least the two of them can spell. That’s a surprise!

Don’t you think you are a bit young for blackmail, Calvin?