Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 05, 2024

Calvin has pushed Miss Wormwood over to the dark side.

“My tiger sabotaged my homework!”

Mrs. Wormwood is a pretty cool alien!

Who else remembers being scared by this part when they read this story as kids?

This happens when you forget to take your meds in the morning!!!

No jury would convict her.

Come on baby, light my fire……

Guess it’s time for the straight-jacket and the padded cell.

This one heck of a nightmare! Now Calvin really won’t go to school.

She reminds me of Mrs. Doubtfire.

Sprinkler systems weren’t required back then, I guess.

Calvin needs to wake up!

“Get the PTA!” is a great line.

The mind is a cruel place!

Meanwhile, over the school loudspeakers, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown is playing (Google it, kids!)

GAH! Why would he dream up something like this?!

Imagining what that final panel would look like in color…

Oh dear god That is so freaky

Calvin will wind up in juvenile detention before too many more years go by.

It’d be great if the firemen show up, and they’re all aliens too

Where are Scully and Mulder when you need them?

back in the 90’s i was a manager in a mortgage company and we had to work some satrudays. one day a girl overloaded the toaster oven and the thing caught fire. I , thinking quickly, grabbed a fire extinguisher off the wall, pulled the pin and let fly. I failed to read the instructions that said stand back 6-7 feet. i was a point blank range. it put out the fire but everything when YELLOW as i was caught in the back blast.

Things seldom go as planned. Eh, Calvin?

Aha. Just what the alien astronut theorists had always suspected!

Legend has it that Giorgio was her first student.

Calvin was a very coolk kid. He just didn’t know it!

Calvin is the master of pretending.

A lot like my 1st grade teacher….

Panel 3’s quite interesting. We’re clearly seeing an image of Calvin’s daydream, but other characters visible in frame are not. Obviously Wormwood would be reacting very differently if she could see the flames herself, so two characters are perceiving two very different realities, and the reader is perceiving the main character’s version of events.

LOL.. Calvin’s daydreams are getting out of hand…

A fire on a student’s desk is a disruption? I would think it was more.

Quite the ‘Trip’ our boy is on about today!

Calvin should read the “My Teacher Is an Alien” books by Bruce Coville.

Heh, in the last panel, the alien Miss Wormwood looks kind of like her original 1985 form, with the longer hair and bigger nose.

Funny enough, the fire alarm went off at my workplace today.

Looks like a delayed reaction. Calvin got into mom and dad’s gummies

Yup, Sister Joseph in third grade!!!

Never pour gasoline on a fire!

If this is a dream, it’s a REALLY GREAT dream!

She’s going to have to keep a strait jacket handy for this young man.

Men in Black, J’s elementary school teacher was an alien.