Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 08, 2024

Does Dad’s life insurance policy have a double indemnity clause for eaten by tiger?

Relax, Calvin. Hobbes is just taking a mini vacation from you.

Hobbes can always find tuna in the creek.

Hobbes will be fine, like Garfield he should be able to open the fridge door……..

Smart move.

Mum giving Dad the side eye in the first frame. Dad and Calvin are equally enthralled by the wedding.

Calvin’s Dad might not be walking by the time he gets home, by the way his Mom was looking at him.

Must be one of those “Full Mass Catholic Weddings”.

They must be doing the three hour Roman Catholic wedding…

Giving him the sideeye, and with good reason!

Mom and Dad crying like they’re at a funeral. Must be a wedding with liturgical dance

Calvin seems to forget that tigers are solitary animals

Why are Calvin and Dad are at the wedding? It’s clear that they don’t know anyone!

These must be friends/family of the mom’s. She’s the only one interested in the proceedings.

Apparently Mom’s relatives.

Calvin, your Dad is bored silly too.

Kids never know why they have to go with parents to these kinds of things. They just suffer until time to romp.

Skip the wedding and go straight to the reception

Years ago I was at a wedding in the middle of a summer heat wave, in a non-air conditioned church, with a long church service included. Over an hour. Two older ladies fainted from the heat and humidity and had to be carried out.

Bill Watterson: Master of comic facial expressions.

Per Wikipedia an adult tiger can go 2 weeks without food then it will eat 75 lbs. of meat! Calvin looks about 75 so he should be worried!

The depicted image of Calvin’s parents sums up typical male / female spectator reactions to a wedding almost perfectly.

the last wedding I was at I wore a Hawaiian shirt.

LOL… Another boring wedding. I see Dad is starting to nod off, too. Why do women cry at both weddings AND funerals?

Good thing Calvin wasn’t made the ringbearer. He’d probably run off with it to throw it in some volcano.

Heh, the parents in the first panel are amusing. I love how the Dad was not as thrilled about the wedding as much as Calvin.

I picture this strip underscored by that Bruton/APM rendition of the “Wedding March” titled “Wedding Procession” by Leslie Pearson, as heard in Nicktoons like “Ren & Stimpy”, “Rocko’s Modern Life” and “SpongeBob SquarePants”…

Mom giving Dad the side-eye in the first panel.

Man, that first panel is written with lightning, isn’t it?

yeah, Dad’s expressions says it all.

My wife was a teacher when we got married in 1988. One of her students invited my wife to her wedding, the student was Vietnamese and the whole wedding was in that language. At the end someone went to the dais and thanked everyone for coming in Vietnamese and English, it took a second for my brain to realize that I could understand again. YAWN

calvin is so down What Going To happen blah blah blah

this wedding better be over soon. I want to see Hobbes

I’m very curious as to what Hobbes would do at a wedding.

∞ to 1 that Hobbes empties the fridge by the time they get home.

Poor kitty, withering away to nothing…it’s been HOURS since his last meal.

This clears the air that Calvin loves his mother more than father, alright.