Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 21, 2022

Looks like Dad is going to miss his 9:30 appointment.

Calvin will get hosed…..

Now you’ll be in water, Calvin. HOT water, that is!

Oh, won’t the boss in the office enjoy this excuse for tardiness.

One epiphany coming up

This is one of those character-building experiences that include not being able to sit down for several hours.

My tiny brain can’t make out what’s happening in the last frame. Someone, please, clue me in.

I believe there may be some penance in Calvin’s short term future.

Calvin will have anger with Dad!

I see a hard punishment coming.

Dad at the office: “Sorry I’m late fellas; I just murdered my brat. Now, excuse me—I gotta call a good defense attorney. Maybe Perry Mason, if I could afford his fee.”

Possible reply from Dad to Calvin:

“I’ll get Mom to drive us both to work, Calvin. You’ll be over my knee and I’ll be in the back seat spanking you. Mom will then drive you home with you on your sore butt. But your butt will be much sorer tonight when I return home to continue the spanking.”

What a little monster! :D

You obviously didn’t think this through, huh, Calvin?

Too late for Gandalf’s sage advice: “Run the other way you fool”

This shows great ingenuity. Calvin has potential as an engineer … if he can survive grade school.

I wonder if his parents were anything like this when they were young. Did their parents often say to them, “I hope you get a child just like you!”

Ah the lead in to the Calvin in Intensive care arc.

When I was about 4-5, I pulled a dumb stunt like Calvin’s. After swift, sure and um, memorable chastisement my dad told me, “Your mom and I brought you into this world; I’ll take you out and me and your mom will make another one that looks just like you.” At that age I wasn’t sure that meant exactly, but the idea and his tone of voice scared the bejeebers out of me. And it was a long time before I threw rocks at passing cars again…

It was neither offensive nor hateful. It’s simply a person with no tact. The world is full of them now and the internet has allowed them a large playground. They are lesser humans because all they have is negativity. Ignore them and they go away because they seek attention. ANY attention. Don’t move the rock and they will eventually disappear.

Bus? What happened to the car? (Or did Calvin render that unusable earlier?

Okay. I’m pretty sure I would do that. Well, perhaps I would if I could run just a little bit faster than my …target.

Well, I said come along my baby, we got chicken in the barn

Woo-huh, come along my baby, really got the bull by the horn

We ain’t fakin’, whole lotta hosin’ goin’ on

It is an ingenious method to soak someone. I never got past water balloons

Dad’s don’t “prank” well.

Water naughty thing to do!

@Jonathon Mason – somebody needs either a nap or a time out.

It’s still worth it if the Dad misses the bus for punishing Calvin.

Calvin set up a rubber hose shower trap and turned it on when his father walked by the tree! His father managed to grab Calvin, and Calvin’s last hope to avoid a spanking is to remind his father not to miss his bus!

Calvin’s father is an attorney, you know. He could argue an insanity defense with relative ease!

A patent attorney!

I usually like reading the comments, especially if there is a punnster or three cracking wise. I come here to obtain joy, something I’ve done for over 50 years. More and more, I’ve seen hate and vitriol spread across the comments. People, when did we become a nation of haters?

A bible thumper. Can you also quote the constitution and and other important documents. The bible was written as a morality play to teach Jews lessons. It sure can’t be taken literally. Or do you believe every word?