Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 27, 2023

Calvin! Would you like it if someone stared at you while you were having lunch?

Don’t think that’s going to stop Calvin from watching.

Watterson sure had a way with words put into rhyme.

I love poems with twist endings

Mom’s cooking isn’t so bad-looking now, eh Calvin?

Nature is icky. Stay away from it.

That’s a very well crafted poem with scansion and rhyme and everything. I bet Watterson really enjoyed creating this strip!

I don’t know which is uglier: cobwebs or those “curtains” of gray moss that drape over oak branches in the American South.

Shame on you, spider! Why didn’t you invite Calvin to join you??

Today’s strip excellently portrays the two sides of Calvin – the mature, poetic side and the childlike side with a taste for both the gross and the grotesque.

Calvin is quite the poet.

Nature is like sausages?

Cool beans! Show it to Suzy.

The Duality of Man, I guess

A C&H without the H…

The older you get the more you realize the unintended consequences of your life’s mistakes.

Help me!

The beautiful and the beastly.

Calvin showing off his writer’s chops.

To be or not to be….oooh glistening web, thou art a work of beauty, and he comes to praise him, not to intrude on his disgusting eating habits!

Truly, Beauty and the Beast. Look closely and tell me if the juicy bug has a ring.

I didn’t think that would gross you out, Calvin.

Few things that don’t have a yucky side if one looks hard enough, Calvin.

Love the orb weavers!

I have seen a spider wrap his prey in webbing, have you?

Nature isn’t always pretty, Calvin.

Yeah.. he probably fries ants with his magnifying glass in the sun… We need to watch Calvin very carefully.

The grandeur of nature: Things eating other things alive.

Great poem, now try a few limericks

I loved the strip when Calvin said that he made “bug butter” just to gross out Susie! My coworker and I loved Calvin and Hobbes back circa 1991. Every Monday we’d photocopy and pin up said copy on our bulletin board. I had such a crush on her! Then she got transferred. Deep ouch.

Definitely one of my favorite poems by Calvin!

All the better to snare you with, my dear.

If he’d only turned in poetry like this to Miss Wormwood…. she’d see he’s on the level of Richard Armour.

I’m surprised that Calvin’s response to bug-sucking is a negative one. You’d think he’d be calling over Suzy in his enthusiasm!

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This is ALSO a broad definition of ‘wild nature produces’

Nice meter, especially for a kid that age.