Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 31, 2023

The country was coming out of a recession in 1993.

If it was Dad’s idea then obviously because (you guessed it!) it builds character!

Whatever does not kill you will make you stronger Calvin and that includes maniacal bikes, snow goons and yes even your Dad especially when he gets on a rant about building character.

Dad is clever. Nobody would suspect a bicycle of being a Filicide-for-hire.

Besides who would want the spirit of Calvin Hanging around.

>selling the house and moving while kid is at camp

o m g you can do that?!

Dad’s thinking about all the angles. I believe Calvin respects that.

Trust good ol’ Hobbes to come up with interesting possibilities! :D

Cal, you’re not Daffy Duck. You’re real. Your head won’t go THRU the tree, more likely, just wrap around it like a big dallop of smashed strawberries.

Gotta blame ! It’s not, MY, fault !

Building a case for paranoia, Calvin?

The house just might sell as a fixer-upper.

It’s all part of Dad’s plan to finally get the dog he always wanted.

We sent our sons off to college and then moved. They found us anyway.

I wonder why Mom and Dad never thought of sending Calvin to camp?

I prefer to believe the “Christine” bike is simply acting in self-defense. She knows a stinker when she sees one.

Parents move and leave you behind, well I guess we’ve all gone through that.

My folks would move, but I always found them. }:-)

Hobbes gets it… LOL. The ‘Possessed’ bike… sounds like a Stephen King novel.

The snow goons didn’t work so he had to get a bike to take care of Calvin, obviously.

Getting Calvin a bike, hoping to “bump him off”… there’s a lot less guilt with that than there is with putting him into foster care.

Dad was seen handing the bike a suitcase of unmarked bills

Maybe Calvin will come home from school one day and find an empty house (except for Hobbes, of course) and no forwarding address.

Calvin’s a pretty funny conspiracy theorist!

For a kid who rides a wagon down death gulch he sure does have a lot of issues with a bike.

Speaking of camps, my kids loved going to camp. They went to music camps, sports camps, horseback riding camps, theatre, etc. … We couldn’t find enough hours in the summer for all the camps they wanted. Some were sleep over ones, some were day camps. Plus with going to the grandparents homes for about two weeks every summer, those two months just flew by. Our next door neightbor’s kids didn’t go to any, and their little boy was here every single day asking if our son was back yet… I realized that he missed playing with our son’s toys, so I let him go to his room and stay there for an hour or so, while his mom and I had a coffee on the porch…

When I was learning to ride a bike I coasted down hill into a telephone pole. I panicked and didn’t use the brake. Neither the bike nor I was seriously harmed. I still wonder how we avoided that.

I think the bike story arc is amusing because i remember when i was learning to ride a bike it sometimes felt like it WAS out to get me lol

Good book I got it for my son he loved it.

I admit there were times as I was leaving for work and thinking I should never come back. Unfortunately I did come home, not because of the children they were the only reason I came home.

Calvin has so much road rash he could earn the nickname “Hamburger Helper”.

What if the camp won’t take him?