Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 29, 2023

Maybe Calvin can meet a nice jungle girl and they can groom each other for lice.

Hey, Calvin’s hardly civilized as he is. I say go for it!

Think it through kid. Suzie will not be within a thousand miles of that jungle.

“Eating grubs?” He couldn’t even bring himself to eat worms a few days ago.

His Mom should have pointed out that he would also not be watching TV or reading comic books.

In elementary school they showed us films of tribal people with plugs in their ears and bones in their noses, and we laughed because it looked so odd. Now, walking down the street in Europe you see the same thing. Only thing we don’t have is the “giraffe women”.

Sorry, boy… you lost me. Hopefully, you meant Neverland.

Not a bad idea, better than being a homeless dude in the street growing up

Professional nitpicker.

hahaha look at his little lunch box there on the sidewalk!

It would be nice if there was enough tropical forest for 7 billion people to live like that. The other billion can live in cities.

Not too many rain forests to grub around in, Calvin.

Too much static, Calvin.

Ask Tom Hanks how well that went in the movie “Castaway”. He’s still searching for Wilson…WILSON!!!!!!

I gather he is hunting for a new excuse.

Where would Calvin fit in essentials like his Saturday morning cartoons in this lifestyle?

Will he be taking Hobbes with him? Or is Hobbes too used to tuna sandwiches?

She should have threatened to home-school him, so he’d always be at school.

You have to be ultra wealthy to aspire to the lifestyle Calvin wants.

Grown-ups are all about lice and deciet, Cal.

Where does this kid get all his schemes and ideas? Very vivid imagination! ☺️

He’ll be naked and (eventually) afraid.

Don’t you wish you had 1 just like him,I DID!

Except for subsisting on berries, grubs and the occasional frog, not to mention having to groom for lice. That sounds like a good way to live.

It’s a very romantic notion. Soon enough, you’ll miss a soft bed, a hot shower, and clean water flowing from the tap that you don’t have to boil first before you drink it.

If you are naked in the jungle, move slowly!

Calvin has watched one too many episodes of that Unclothed and Skeered show.

Cal wouldn’t stick it. No Calvin Ball in the woods.

Calvin, winner of Survivor (seasons 1,16, 22 and 33) and the only man who defeated Bear Grylls, has now retired from competitive neanderthalism and is living in a yurt in Yukon Territory.

♪ ♫

I’m an apeman, I’m an ape, apeman, oh I’m an apeman

I’m a King Kong man, I’m a voodoo man, oh I’m an apeman

’Cause compared to the sun that sits in the sky

Compared to the clouds as they roll by

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies I am an apeman

♪ ♫

Well, if you do squelch a kid’s ambition you might end up receiving a TV for Christmas every year.

You’re reading the wrong expert, Calvin.

While this is true, I think most of the “experts” will agree there is a difference between imagination and fantasy.

People who proclaim their supposed love for the primitive life, such as that depicted in Avatar, NEVER put their money with their mouths are and actually live such a life. They’re too busy extolling the virtues of primitivism on their phones and tablets.

Experts also say it’s bad to let kids run wild Calvin.

It’s a really tough balance for parents being realistic without squelching dreams

In other words, a monkey.

Have a trial run next camping trip. Just give him a basket(for gathering) and a BBQ fork (for hunting)…..he can sleep outside the tent, or in a tree. Might talk him into a loin cloth if there are other campers near-by.

Isn’t there some “reality” show about idiots running around naked in the jungle?

Now that is the ultimate slacked.

This is the “off-the-grid” dream. My family spent generations striving to get “on-the-grid”. The dream usually dies after the first bad night in a cold outhouse. :)

Calvin just described my retirement plan!

Calvin’s facial expression in panel three is perfect.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/341710690446253909/

Which tropical forest, Calvin? The Hoh Rain Forest within Clallam County, Washington where I was born?

Calvin thinks there are still tropical forests not close to any civilized areas.

Calvin still needs to learn a few more things, like the fact that hunting and gathering is still work.

The lice have nutritive value too.

Testing how this looks.

What do the experts say about squelching a child’s lack of ambition, Calvin?

Calvin, it would be like the camping trips with your dad. And you know how you love those.

Calvin’ s option instead of schooling must be a welcome thought process for most of us considering the vagaries of life. Love you Bill.

That would be my life if my ancestors weren’t picked up by that ship.

Woo woo woo oh Africa!