Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 10, 2021

Next time, tie it to your wrist.

You’d think the extra air in Calvin’s head would help.

in some future C&H arc, Calvin does — rather unintentionally — float away while holding onto his balloon

Stupid gravity.

Next time Calvin try landing on your feet. Instead of doing the face plant.

If you’ve never had a helium balloon in the car when you accelerate or turn, you’ve missed an interesting observation. First time I tied one to the e-brake lever in the middle to get it home, I was astounded! Obvious in retrospect though.

Some sea turtle’s going to choke to death on that balloon!

My right forearm is bigger and more muscular than my left. Web MD was no help.

But it will need to be swimming in the stratosphere, lol. Somewhere over the north-central US.

Too bad Calvin gave up so easily. He could have become the next “Lawn Chair Larry” who earned an “At Risk Survivor” citation when the Darwin Awards were handed out after his escapade:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight

I know that the entire joke is that Calvin’s mistaken, but why would he think that standing on a ladder would help to begin with?

You’re going to need a bigger balloon.

The flaw in the plan…

That was not very nice, Hobbes!

Hobbes is right yet again!

That’s what you get for taking advice from a tiger, Calvin…

He’d have gone up several feet if you’d stuck him with a pin, Hobbes.

More experiments in Physics.

Every time I give Calvin credit for his intelligence, (his vocabulary is beyond many adults I know) a strip like this comes along where I wonder why it didn’t occur to him that if the the balloon was going to make him rise, it would have done so while he was walking to the ladder.

Gravity is a bitch!

Should have aimed for the bushes.

Ask Carl Frederickson, you need a lot more balloons than that!

Calvin would have better success a couple of years later… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1988/07/04

Sometimes friends helping us, isn’t very helpful.

“Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

Defective reality testing.

If the balloon wouldn’t lift him when he’s on the ground, why would it lift him when he’s on a ladder — sometimes child psychology eludes me.

Where is cartoon physics when you need it?

Obviously happened before the movie “Up”…

sucker

Insert balloon related joke here.

Did you tell Calvin to hang on to the balloon, Hobbes?

About 10 years ago, the church youth group had some activity involving helium balloons in the sanctuary. Needless to say, we had several get loose and no way to reach them because of the vaulted ceiling. Latex balloons leak fairly quickly, but mylar ones have staying power. We put double sticky tape on the top of a mylar balloon on a long ribbon and got them down that way.

Oh Calvin! Hobbes does things like that to you all the time. He is worse than the bully at school because you trust him. Why I do not know.

That’s what you get for listening to a tiger.

You did not fit into Archimede’s principle of floatation. A bigger balloon with more buoyancy could have made you soar high above Hobbes.

Not to be a Debby downer but please dispose of your balloons after use. They are washing up on shores everywhere and birds choke on them. Thank you!

OBEY GRAVITY!

It’s the law.

One of my absolute favourites!

Next time take an umbrella as an emergency parachute.

I think he broke the law of Buoyancy or something.

This made me laugh right out loud – LOLOL

One of my top ten favorites