Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 03, 2024

Spring? Winter and Spring decided to switch schedules in the Northeast US.

“Local boy goes insane over a spring tradition.” Good headline there, right?

Well at least someone in the household is getting the ceremony.

Seeing a Robin is exciting stuff.

Hobbes saw the first robin…..and eat’ds it.

Too many Chocolate-Frosted Sugar Bombs today, Calvin??

Calvin’s mom clearly didn’t bring him down gently.

Hobbes comment at the end is the Best! Great Comic Today!

Poor Calvin. I guess they denied him a parade.

Birds are returning to our feeders. Bluebirds almost every day. Same for robins, finches, wrens, nuthatches, chickadees, woodpeckers of several types, and even a couple of doves. And somewhere in the night an owl is broadcasting.

Thank goodness. Spring is still taking its time arriving and more rain holds back seed and flowers. Been a very gray winter. The birds are a happy sight.

Calvin’s spring has sprung………

The first Robin was soon followed by the first Batman of spring.

I’m a little surprised that Calvin asks whether he should put the prize money in a trust fund or blow it all at once. Blowing it all at once is much more fitting to his character. Dad must be having some influence on him.

Man this is a good strip. I think Calvin’s going a little crazy, it looks like he ate a block of fudge the size of an iPad. Also Hobbes’ line at the end made me laugh out loud. I bet his dad would say: ‘disappointment builds character’ lol

SHUT…..UP!!!

Robin’s usually stay in my state year round. We know when spring comes because the frogs in the marsh start singing. We call them peepers. I did see my first cardinal yesterday. So beautiful.

Despite all the times I’ve read this, over all the years, I never understood this. Why would he think there’s a civic ceremony? plaque? and reward money large enough for a trust fund? is dad play tricks on his fragile little mind again?

The local robins show up in January and are gone in July.

The expressions in this strip are on point!!

Yes it is Calvin. You think it is bad then, it is even worse now.

I love Hobbes.

Around here, we have Robins all year long.

heeee

Calvin’s imagination is priceless, so he should be happy to delve into it.

Who killed CockRobin?

I’m sure to get bitten by the first mosquito of spring

We have robins all year here (Oregon). In the summer, it’s the California birds and in the winter Alaskan. Someone got a PhD proving they were two genetically distinct populations.

I can commiserate with Calvin. I was excited to see my first Robin a couple of weeks ago and when I went to share my joy, everyone shared Hobbes’ response with me. Just wait til I see my first UFO! And nobody better say “Oh, yah. I saw one just the other day…” when I tell them about it!

And it even had a ticket from Robin Air.

What matters is when you see the first Batman of the Spring.

It’s going to be a cold, blustery couple of days up here in Ontario.

“♫ When, the Red, Red, Robin goes bob, bob, bobbing along. ♫”

We had robins come home about a month ago here in Spokane WA USA. It makes my day for sure that it is the first sign that Spring was coming. Felt sorry for them when we had a few snow flurries.

When in Illinois, I used to watch for the swans heading north in the spring.

The hummingbirds have started their migrations north.

I saw one a week ago, too…. Poor Calvin, never can win.

Are the strips out of order? I remember these last three strips being from an earlier book collection than last week’s.

Calvinist, can you help me out here?

That’s the robin song scam. They always come in singing that they are the first robin of spring. In California, they sing it in February.

I see a Robin everyday all year long—it happens to be my wife’s name!

I was the 9th of 11 children. I never had any delusions that anything I did was special. It did make growing up easier for me. I was never the center of the universe, so adulthood was not a rude shock for me.

For all we know, it could have been a winter robin! (i.e. the robins that don’t migrate and bulk up for the winter)

We have had a pretty mild sprummter in Maine so far

Scisophrenic

It bugs me no end that I can’t casually mention I saw a robin for the first time in a given spring without the other person saying they or someone they know saw one previously, maybe days earlier or maybe it was a flock of robins, and all in a tone of voice that seems to say “so what?” to my comment, as if it were some kind of competition and I was bragging but not even close to winning. Ugh.