Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 01, 2009

Will Mom ever get used to his imagination, I wonder?

It’s mouse blood soup Calvin!

Poor scowling owl.

attyush says:

Poor scowling owl.

~ I liked your joke yesterday. :-)

Cheer up Calvin. Another adventure starts tomorrow.

Did the transmogrifer work again? Thanks God!

His mom sure has a wild imagination….she thinks that owl is her boy.

Ohh, we are back to the real life now!!! Happy Fools’ Day!!! C&H lovers! Read you guys’ comments alot, thanx!

Hope poor Hobbes isn’t left out in the woods to starve.

Stay tuned LX013–we’re actually seeing the strip from mum’s-eye-view, and mum is not transmogrifier-cognisant.

Poor Calvin is flabbergasted.

Mom is definitely used to Calvin’s imagination. She’s been living with a live tiger in the house for six years.

Actually, she probably gave him that imagination. Both genetically and environmentally

Poor little Calvin. Thank goodness mom prepared tomato soup and not roasted mice!

Mom really knows how to roll with each new scenario that Calvin’s imagination confronts her with. Happy April Fool’s Day to you too Ivy and to all the rest of this motley crew.

To LX013 and Prasrinivara: of course Hobbes got the transmogrifier fixed: he repaired the internal wiring and used a new nucleair battery. Simple as that.

thanks for reminding me cleokaya

now I must switch the ceral in the cearel boxes

So he’s still an owl but Mom sees him as Calvin just like Hobbes is a live tiger and she sees him as a stuffed tiger. Or maybe it’s the other way around.

Another imagination is fake again!

Waiter! Waiter! There’s a mouse in my soup!

At least mom’s acceptance and response gets Calvin out of his funk. Yum, tomato soup. Much better than them little mousey feet.

He’s an owl and he doesn’t like mice? What’s up with that? But his mom should tell that he’s joking.

Hey Katisha, is the Mason Williams you mentioned yesterday the same Mason Williams that was the writer/music director for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show that ran for about 2 years in the late 60’s before being forced off of the air? If it is, I loved the video he put together that went with his song “Classical Gas”.

Poor, Owlvin! Owls also eats rats …Mom tomato soup .. Ohhhhh Rats!

She should have put one of those big gummy rats on his place mat! APRIL FOOL!!

I like how Calvin’s mom plays right with Calvin - and picks up on whata is going on with him.

How telling in panel 4 when she says ” I heard you.” —isn’t that what most of us want –that we are heard/paid attention —and not ignored or even worse dismissed.

Wonderful.

Lets hear it for our understanding Moms with Calvins abounding with abundant imaginations, si!

poor little guy. poor mom.