Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 17, 2021

And working on special effects: Hobbes

Pinecones: Nature’s painful weapons!

Be glad that those weren’t coconuts

Good job, Hobbes. But i fear, two will not be enough.

The joy and innocence of childhood, especially in the West. Once you’ve experienced bombs dropping, it’s hard to play soldiers again.

Gotta love Hobbes! <3 <3

Those are smart bombs.

Well, you wanted war, didn’t you?

The Climbing Tiger Squadron is victorious again!!!

Calvin loves him although Hobbes is often not so really kind!

Tiger squadron 12 o’clock.Be glad Hobbes was not in a Bunya Pinehttps://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-samsung-rev2&source=android-browser&q=bunya+pine+cone#imgrc=F8mqnDi1KpCucM

Twenty pound pine cones from 160 feet, no warning.

Natures’ sneak attack!

Green pine cones that generally fall during a hurricane can be deadly. They’re like huge green bullets.

Sometimes, Hobbes can drive Calvin bonk-ers!

We used to draw up, in the dirt, our “battle field”. Then take turns mining the other side with equal amounts of illegally obtained fire crackers with buried fuses. Then all came back and set up their GI Joe armies, green men, jeeps, half-tracks, Howitzers and tanks. Then take turns lighting fuses. Great fun, when you’re young enough to not understand what you’re really playing at. The M-80’s were a blast….

See, this is why Susie loves Hobbes.

Oh no! Call the Society of Woke, because if he is playing with soldiers, the next thing will be playing with a stick and then he’ll want a bb gun. Oh my! We have to stop it now!

We get several thousand pine cones in the yard every year. The squirrels ignore them.

To bad Gandalf isn’t there. They could be flaming pine cones. Though with this past fire season we may have had quite enough of pine cones of fire. Happy Birthday LOTR.

Virtual reality, old style.

Squirrels are amazingly accurate with black walnuts still in the hull when a dog gets too annoying.

You sunk his battleship!

Krakow! Krakow!

Hobbes is just helping your imaginative play seem more real, Calvin. Sheesh!

Hobbes is in trouble- – a big change it is usually Calvin.

When I was on my first combat training maneuver in the Air Force, we managed to come up behind a machine gun (firing blanks). At that point, we discovered the previous class had removed the firing pins from our M-1 rifles to make them easier to reassemble (a lesson in inspection by itself). We could not fire our blanks, so we had to throw pine cones at the gunner before we could get his attention and capture him.

Funny!

That direct hit by the pinecones could be painful. But seriously, what’s a few pinecones between friends. Love that sheepish smile on the feline.

A big enough pine cone falling from a very tall tree actually dented my dad’s car once.

Calvin would prefer the (pine) cone of silence.

Hobbes called in an air strike. (These strips seem out of sync. We should have had some Christmas strips by now.)

“Air Superiority” wins again!

Heh, it’s like the follow-up to THIS strip… https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/16