Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 01, 2021

Smart boy Calvin. Next time ask them to that every night

Calvin did find someone to do his homework, at least partially.

Maybe someday the class reading will be Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie.

Are there any cliff notes…..for this book?

what have you been doing all week, Calvin, to put off the book report? was it your secondary duplicator which made a physical manifestation of your good side?

And thus, audio books are born.

As usual, get someone else to do what you should have done yourself!!!

Didn’t the Good Calvin finish that book report before he vanished?

Calvin can’t get a report done to save his life.

Story of my life when I was a kid. Waiting till the last minute to do my reports

If you want to read the book so much, why not read it yourself? ;D

Not to worry, Calvin will be asleep before Dad finishes chapter 2.

Okay, I’m assuming this story arc has come to an end; so, if I may, here’s a lonely 6 year old kid who has a stuffed tiger that he has morphed into his best friend. Now he’s produced a behaved, benevolent alter ego that’s also blessed with a romantic soul. He has now created a scenario where the friendly, likable doppelgänger is destroying original Calvin’s well earned anti-social reputation and this needs to stop. So, (1.) was this a dream, (2.) a daydream or (3.) a live action acting out of that daydream with Calvin playing both roles (cause let’s face it, you just can’t create alter egos by simply walking through a cardboard box).

That darned honesty will get you in hot water every time, Calvin.

Ahhh, a kindred spirit. :D

Dad will now probably read him the riot act!

Dad is glad, he has found a story, his kid likes!!

……And I’ll get Hobbes to write it in the morning….

100+ page book for a first grader? Wasn’t Dick and Jane more like 5 pages.

“A good goal, according to child literacy expert Timothy Shanahan, is that children should master 20 sight words by the end of Kindergarten and 100 sight words by the end of First Grade.”

That’s an awfull big book for a first grader to have to write a book report on.

Shouldn’t have merged with the good clone.

Okay, I’m thinking that is a pretty good idea. I know it may seem a little lazy, but if Audible had been a thing when I was in Grade/High school, I would have happily read/listened to pretty much every book I was assigned.

One Sunday night, I asked my parents if they could help me with a book project. My dad asked, “When is it due?” I answered, “Tomorrow.” He asked, “When did you KNOW about it?” I told him that it was a couple of weeks ago. He sat back & said, “You got yourself into this; you’ll get yourself out of it.” I squeaked a B, and never procrastinated again.

Should have Dad start the book earlier, Calvin. Or not driven the ‘good’ duplicate to specialize.

I meant ‘spectralize’.

But… but… it’s “War and Peace”!

By “tomorrow”, he means “before class”.

That was pretty clever and sneaky of Calvin! Too bad he didn’t think it through! But really, a book with over 100 pages assigned to a first grader?

When don’t tell them that Calvin!

Write a paper on it? Calvin is six years old!

I can just imagine myself at Calvin’s age, already reading hundreds of words per minute, “studying” by asking someone to read a book to me. It was torture just listening to other kids read aloud.

This scenario stoked many a nightmare…

Calvin: Daddy, please a write a synopsis that I can read before breakfast tomorrow morning.

I hated book reports, however since I have been in Engineering I have to do reports all the time. I don’t mind too much, unless it’s about a test failure.

No more Mr.Nice Guy for sure.

What day is it?

“Gee, you really must like this.”

Have a book report due tomorrow morning? Try Calvin’s Notes – even MORE abridged than Cliffs’!

i love this comic set because fun funny