Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 10, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  over 2 years ago

    Mom’s preparing Calvin for a life in the civil service (other than the police force).

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    Charles Barr Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Calvin can be the tax collector.

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    codycab  over 2 years ago

    No guns? Gee, I wonder why….

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    dadthedawg Premium Member over 2 years ago

    No gun playing…..Your Mom is right.

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    retrocool  over 2 years ago

    guns would be more fun than that. he would look stupid, though, doing that with a stuffed tiger.

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    sacas  over 2 years ago

    Why is worded like that? “Play with guns.”

    Does Calvin’s mom actually have a gun????

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    C  over 2 years ago

    Son of a gun

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    marilynnbyerly  over 2 years ago

    His best friend is a tiger. He doesn’t need a gun.

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    GeorgeInAZ  over 2 years ago

    And so began the decline of America.

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    Susan00100  over 2 years ago

    Reminds me of a Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon, where Sam hollers, “This town ain’t big enough for both of us!”

    Then, there are sounds of hammering and sawing, and Bugs shows all the new buildings he erected, but Sam still isn’t satisfied!!

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    CO Premium Member over 2 years ago

    I thought Calvin was more inventive than that. A stick makes a good toy gun.

    Of course, these days the kids might not be so inclined to use their imagination when they can just shoot things in a video game.

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    jmworacle  over 2 years ago

    Spy versus Spy?

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    gsawyer101  over 2 years ago

    Sounds like several towns around Raleigh North Carolina.

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    sandpiper  over 2 years ago

    Hobbes sees zoning as a good replacement for guns in taking of property. Seems to be working well in many places.

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    bignatefantic2.0  over 2 years ago

    Why wouldn’t Calvin’s mom allow them to play with guns? They would obviously be using toy guns not real guns

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    Everyman127  over 2 years ago

    Playing with toy guns will not gonna gun down anybody.

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    dlkrueger33  over 2 years ago

    When we were young, we used sticks as guns. When we were a little older, we had cap guns…..but in true kid-form, I had more fun exploding the caps with a rock. LOL

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    RitaGB  over 2 years ago

    He broke the fourth wall!

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    greyolddave  over 2 years ago

    The School Board is where the power is these days.

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    dflak  over 2 years ago

    I am not going to comment on this strip other than to say, I am saving it.

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    jagedlo  over 2 years ago

    So Hobbes gives himself the best part of the county?

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    Prey  over 2 years ago

    The zoning board just kills dreams.

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    ekw555  over 2 years ago

    seems she was ahead of her time.

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    cjasc5250  over 2 years ago

    Take toy guns away from kids, they pick up sticks and pretend it is a gun. Always happens.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Yeah, you get way more of other people’s stuff with contracts and taxes than with guns. Guns are for the little people.

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    Redd Panda  over 2 years ago

    When they grow up … Gerry-Mandering!

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    txmystic  over 2 years ago

    Notice the one who wants to be the zoning board is wearing the black hat…

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    bbenoit  over 2 years ago

    OMG, Putin was actually born in the US and his birth name was Calvin!

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    SweetSinger  over 2 years ago

    Yay Mom!

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    david_42  over 2 years ago

    The City rezoned my property and the other three on the west side of the cul-de-sac “Multi-family”. I don’t see the point, except maybe the planners trying to justify their salaries by changing things.

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    YippiKiAyMofo  over 2 years ago

    Cops and Zoning Coordinators? Blech!

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    gantech  over 2 years ago

    Calvinmandering?

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    uniquename  over 2 years ago

    Eminent Domain. Government Theft.

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    jrankin1959  over 2 years ago

    Right or wrong, it’s an interesting spin on old westerns…

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    karlritz  over 2 years ago

    Mom is always the smartest!

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    ChessPirate  over 2 years ago

    “Dance, you varmint!”

    “I can’t, this part of town ain’t zoned fer dancin’…”

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    johnec  over 2 years ago

    Any stick can be either a gun or a sword – or both – in the active mind of a pre-teen boy.

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    flagmichael  over 2 years ago

    In Albuquerque four years ago my grandson asked a classmate if he liked to go shooting – our son had taken him out target shooting in the desert a couple of times. The police brought him home and grilled his father (who is brain injured) about the kid’s “obsession” with guns. It seems the first day of school included a lecture about Albuquerque Public Schools’ gun policy. No mention of guns, no drawing pictures of guns, no gun anything at all. Our grandson missed the first day of school because of a registration glitch so he missed the warning.

    The current school year included an incident in the first week of school (the one our other grandson attended) where one student shot and killed another student at school about some beef involving a third person. It appeared the dead student was just a kid who tried to de-escalate the argument and the shooter’s father was a repeat violent felon. I doubt refusing to talk about a problem is the best way to deal with it.

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    g04922  over 2 years ago

    Ahhh… take me back to the world of boys with toy guns. It is a a whole new world out there, now.

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    emiesty Premium Member over 2 years ago

    My late DH was a city planner. He could relate to a three-way showdown among the neighborhood, the zoning board, and the historic preservation society. Not to mention big money ….

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    mistercatworks  over 2 years ago

    Brilliant diversionary tactic. I am the oldest of four brothers. When we were children, I had to come up with some interesting diversionary tactics when my younger brothers started doing something that would lead to trouble. I had the responsiblity for them but no authority, i.e. couldn’t hit them. I became a storyteller and actor without even realizing it.

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    Slatsmagee I  over 2 years ago

    What a shame. Kid’s can’t even play cowboys and indians anymore…

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    rasputin's horoscope  over 2 years ago

    Hobbs knows where the real power lies.

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    Will_Scarlet  over 2 years ago

    Just play Monopoly – property moguls get to destroy WAY more lives.

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    Marty241  over 2 years ago

    A good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. I cannot think of an exception. If there is one, let me know.

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    coffeeturtle  over 2 years ago

    4th Wall

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    Geezer  over 2 years ago

    Note: “© 1992”

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    swanridge  over 2 years ago

    Nobody likes zoning until someone wants to put in a gravel pit next door.

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    oakie817  over 2 years ago

    it’s strips like this that make me wish there were new strips

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    edeloriea14  over 2 years ago

    I don’t think even toy guns are a good idea, either.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 2 years ago

    Reminds me of a different strip where Hobbes said that ‘realistic’ comic book heroes would just attend city council meetings and send out taxes.

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    wiatr  over 2 years ago

    You can point your index finger. Of course, both of mine now droop toward the floor. Gettin’ old’s fun.

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    hagarthehorrible  over 2 years ago

    Another priceless strip from Bill.

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