Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 03, 2021

Hobbes ran back in to call his bookie and bet 10 cans of tuna on nature.

He looks like a girl in panel 3

Calvin should try surviving the thunder plains from Final Fantasy X.

He looks like good-thoughts-only Calvin.

Calvin’s efforts to control reality are always doomed to failure.

in another C&H strip (a Sunday one), Calvin argues with the elements, but decides to strip to his birthday suit thinking it will be no problem… until he runs back to the house because of hail

…..and Alfred Hitchcock strikes again.

Calvin assumes that the weather cares what he thinks. Bad assumption.

At least the tall one carrying the metal umbrella had the sense to get out of the electrical storm.

If it was 1968 Calvin was ready for Woodstoock rainy day.

Hobbes has it right. As my father always said, “Better to be a live chicken than a dead duck!”

The worst case is it rains for 40 days and 39 nights. You can outlast nature if you’re patient.

My sibs and I used to go out to the back yard in the summer thunderstorms in New Mexico and huddle under tarps. Then run around like nuts. Then huddle under tarps… Then take a hot bath to stop the shivers.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!

“It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping in the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains.” -Ray Bradbury – “The Long Rain”

Let’s hope Calvin can locate a Sun Dome.

Stay out there all you like Calvin. Nature doesn’t give a durn either way! ;D

Calvin will probably get a runny nose and a bad cold if he stays out there much longer !

Reminds me of Charlie Brown on the pitcher’s mound, in the pouring rain, unable to grasp that there’s not going to be a game.

Cool!

Hobbes went in like lightning…..

Captain Dan, is that you?

Good luck to you there “Capt’n Dan”. Hobbes is inside with cocoa and your comic books.

Arkham Poison Ivy said it best: “Nature always wins. Always.”

The rain doesn’t care if you stand in it Calvin.

Reminds me of a time at Old Faithful . It started raining and I was holding an umbrella for me and a friend. It started lightning and I told him it was his turn to hold umbrella.

One of the biggest hazards in lightning storms is being under a tree for shelter. Trees are champions at attracting lightning, but they have enough internal resistance that lightning is always looking for an alternative on the way down. (From my front window I can see a large pine tree with the tell-tale vertical scar wandering down the side facing me.)

Hobbes is adorable in Panel 3 :)

I know that Watterson was a big Charles Schulz admirer, and this strip seems like one of Watterson’s most Peanuts-esque ones. Imagine Calvin as Lucy, and Hobbes as Charlie Brown.

A scene from Forest Gump with Lieutenant Dan comes to mind.

“The best thing about the rain is that it always stops. – Eeyore

The House (Mother Nature) always wins.

Calvin represents Man. We know who the winner will be.

I remember the ‘Peanuts’ storyline where Linus could stop the rain for a time. Maybe Calvin should try that.

Love this one! I picture that big “KABOOM!” in the third panel being this classic “Castle Thunder” sound effect variation that Disney and Hanna-Barbera often used… https://soundeffects.fandom.com/wiki/Sound_Ideas,THUNDER_-THUNDER_CLAP_AND_RUMBLE,_WEATHER01(H-B)

discretion is the better part of stupidity

King Canute

Stand out there until you mildew, Nature doesn’t care. See that rock? That was a mountain.

When your imaginary friend has more sense than you, it’s time for some introspection.

Um, yeah…Noah’s neighbors didn’t have any luck with that tactic, either.

Hence the saying he doesn’t have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

Hobbes just wanted to get himself and that lightning rod (umbrella) out of danger.

smells of wet tiger…

Luke: Look at all that lightning! Kapow!

Dragline: Come out of the storm, Luke! What’s the matter with you? Ain’t you scared of gettin’ killed?

Luke: Aw, he can take this ol’ life anytime he wants to. (To sky:) You hear that, old man? Show me you’re up there! Love me, hate me, kill me, just let me know! (No response.) Yeah, that’s what I thought. I’m just standin’ in the rain, talkin’ to myself…

Flawed logic, Calvin. Sooner or later, it WILL stop raining, regardless of what you do.

Our dog can’t stand thunder either.

I can’t tell if the look on Hobbes’ face in the third panel is because the thunder startled him or absolute shock at Calvin’s futility…

Calvin you can’t control nature… think… think…

Better going inside than getting zapped lightning

Sometimes I engage in a contest of wills against human nature. I usually lose.

Smart feline there!

Calvin, you better get inside before you get zapped