Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 19, 2022

Very gently, which is how the girls like it.

So the moon and the stars were wrong after all? How could this be?

you’re crazy, C&H

Then Calvin will have a new excuse not to go to school. “Sorry. I got into a fight with my tiger and I’m too much in pain to go!”

Not very enthu-suzy-astic

Tigers wear spats?

Muchas smooches for everyone!

Yes, Hobbes. You should wear your spats. And a top hat and cane to go with them…

Calvin can explain his fat lip as an encounter with Moe.

Hobbes is always dapper.

I don’t know any girls with fat lips.

Love hurts ~ Every Brothers…….

Calvin’s increasingly desperate, horrified face is a thing of beauty in strips like this- Waterson knew how to add those extra lines around his eyes to make for “worry wrinkles”.

My money’s on the tiger…

Just stop reading that horror-scope, dummy.

Astrology is not a science, Calvin.

Hobbes really knows how to push Calvin’s buttons.

Susie should show up any minute now.

Yes, girls definitely dig guys who fight stuffed animals (and usually lose).

muchas smooches sounds ok to me…

Heh, I can picture Calvin’s movements in the second and third panels as some kind of animation loop, particularly him moving up and down in the third panel.

Fat lips are a very ‘90s thing, that’s still with us.

It’s amazing how the two halves of the same brain can fight so hard so often and still find new ways to get into trouble.

Wow… I would love “muchas smooches” for once..

and this is how I met Hobbes Durden….

Tiger Spats™

Leaving the last vestiges of “Boyhood” behind is tough. First comes the denial.

♫ Besame…besame mucho…" ♫

Turns out Calvin is a fighter… not a lover.

Will Suzy be impressed with Calvin’s tiger-fighting abilities? Alas, no

If Susie lives in the same neighborhood, why doesn’t she ride the same bus?

He’s putting on his white tie and top hat, and brushing up his tail.

He has not yet become an astrology-denier; he’s only a romance-denier. :)

Spats are cool.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

Anything for a fight for those two!

Where did the rest of Calvin go in the last panel? All I can see is part of his face in Hobbes belly area.

They’re in a spat about spats.

Hobbes just want the comic named “Hobbea and Calvin.”

Calvin you would have done well never to have believed astrology in the first place

Muchas smooches. Spats. Hilarious!

Hobbes can pitch in the school im place of Calvin and get all the attention.