Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 12, 2021

It will definitely be the lead story on the evening news.

“Crash” Calvin…..strikes again.

To be continued…

Yeah if you’re a disaster movie fan.

Kids imagination

Calvin has just seen Steven Spielberg’ “Duel”.

Isn’t there going to be a school bus too?

Ah, the innocence of youth…….

Exactly the way I thought at six.

That truck better not be haulin’ gasoline; we need that…

So, the sports car crashes into the cement mixer and the cement covers the sports car driver and then the gasoline bakes the cement shell on the driver and vola! Ben Grimm’s origin story, ver 0.1.

….funny word ‘Inflammable’…my first reaction was that it should be ’flammable"…really, really flammable….

I’ll watch from a safe long distance.

I didn’t know sports cars could go 200 miles per hour.

What’s the difference between inflammable and flammable?

So there you have it. Calvin grows up to be a Myth Buster. “Failure is always an option.”

I’ve played this…lol

“Here comes dad’s lighter fluid!”

and then come Thelma and Louise…

Big badda boom…

I have always thought that “inflammable” should be “flammable”

This was the very first C&H I ever read. The strip was so new my local newspaper didn’t carry it yet, but I received a gift that used the comics page from another newspaper as stuffing. Funny, I don’t remember what the gift was but I remember this strip.

Did we skip back to earlier strips?

You know, even at the beginning Calvin had an admirable vocabulary for a six-year-old.

It reminds me of the slow-motion train wreck we witnessed from November, 2016, through January, 2021, and the aftershocks that we’re still experiencing.

Now if you can go get Dad’s lighter fluid and find out where he keeps the matches…

The last panel is like early Funky Winkerbean.

Back in day when people knew what “inflammable” means.

Next panel, Calvin dousing all three cars with lighter fluid.

First 15 minutes of “6 Underground”.

Hey, I’ve been wondering, how does Calvin come up with all these scenarios for him and Hobbs? Is he really that imaginative? DO WE HAVE A CHILD PRODIGY ON OUR HANDS!?!?

Yeah, Cal. "Good"in a bad way… :D

Just wait until he figures out how to turn a can of WD40 into a flame thrower……

Like Calvin, I had crashes with flames. Polystyrene puts out very acrid, heavy black smoke. Consequence – none of the plastic models I put together survived my youth. Nor did my baseball cards, but they ended up as noisemakers on my bicycle spokes.

Sounds like something from the Fast and Furious/I> franchise

Is Susie a part of these earlier strips?

Reminds me of a future C&H Sunday strip where a derailed locomotive, a crashing jet liner, and a crack in the earth all head towards a farmer’s house which has an unexpected gas leak as said farmer lights his gas stove.

KABLOOEY!

Thank you thank you thank you Mr. Watterson for using the correct word “inflammable”, not the made up “flammable” just because people are too ignorant to learn anything. It goes up “in flames”. Get it?

This OUGHT to be GOOD?

jwhy are they old art style