Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 24, 2009

Oops, I hate when that happens!

Somehow the song comes to mind, “It’s a Long Way to Tipparary”.

this is not a dream any last words calvin

SUSPENSE!!! (and he no longer has any suspension. Where is his back-up balloon?)

or his parachute?

this is what you call jumping to a conclusion :P

On, King! On, you huskies! “It’s a long way to Tipperary” unless you’re in Ireland. “In Dublin’s fair city where the girls are so pretty”

Look, way down from the sky, Calvin! It’s a bird; it’s a plane; it’s Superfrog! GASP!

GASP!

If Calvin had a back-up balloon, he could back up to where he started. How far is that from Tipperary?

The SUSPENSE is killing me, (and some people might wish it would). Calvin might be ‘down to his last GASP’.

I can say nothing!

Keep gasping, Calvin. One of them has to work.

The Nightmare That Wouldn’t End. Yikes.

Has Kat got your tongue?…Ladywildcat, that is. “Silence is Golden” It sounds better than perpetual GASPS.

I’m speechless!

A last prayer will be the best!

What happened to the ‘string’ from the balloon? All I see is a ‘string’ of GASPS. The GASPS are holding up better than Calvin is.

It’s about time Calvin got a wake-up call. “Up in the morning and off to school”

“Has Kat got your tongue was for LX013 who said, ” I can say nothing.”

I’ll catch ya, Calvin! Gasp. (with my super suctioncup fingers)

Hi Puddlegum2. I’m still betting on a dream recovery.

Look out below! Let’s hope there’s a haystack or something.

Whoever invented balloons must have hated little kids.

This is going on longer than I thought. I can’t wait for tomorrow’s strip.

saturntv, What if there’s a pitchfork’ in the haystack? Calvin might have the ‘tine’ of his life, which might end his life.

Superfrog, ‘A stitch in ‘tine’ saves nine; i’m not needling you, but please don’t let Calvin ‘croak’! “It’s Now or Never”…there’s no ‘tine’ to lose.

Hi Puddleglum2, No offence even contemplated. We puddle dwellers have to stick together.

I’ve got all my sticky fingers out and I’ll catch Calvin if any Superfrog can.

Lucid dreaming isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. ‘Specially when you lose control of the dream…

Any other ideas?? Genius!!

I hate the dream were you keep falling and falling and falling GASP!!!!!

Now would be a nice time to get religion

Hobbes will be there in a hopittycopter and save the day.

I used to dream that I was falling (down a stairway), but would wake up before I landed. Finally, one time I dreamt all the way to the conclusion–I landed on the floor, got myself up, and was okay. I never dreamed of falling again after that. Maybe Calvin needs to resolve his dream/issues in the same way. C’mon, Calvin! It’s only a dream!

Calvin take your shirt off.

This is definitely a job for Stupendous Man!

I’m impressed Mr Bill this is shaping up to be a real down to earth fable .

When you come right down to it……….SPLAT!!!

Perhaps an enormous eagle will come and take Calvin on his wings and bring him save to the house of his parents and to Hobbes, who is reading all his Comic books!

Or not!

darkhicks: i love your sprite!

This is a real cliffhanger. Now I will be in suspense all day. We know he won’t die of course, but how’s he gonna get out of this?

“And wow! Hey! What’s this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like… ow… ound… round… ground! That’s it! That’s a good name - ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me?”

– Douglas, you are truly missed.

LX013, If it happens that way, we will say, “The Eagle has landed.” My money is still on Superfrog “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”. “I can say nothing!” GOOD! “I’m speechless.! BETTER! “A last prayer will be the BEST!”

Calvin, if you hadn’t been showing off with your backward somersault, you might sooner have become aware of this perilous precipitous predicament GASP!

how far can he fall before he runs out of gasp!. Will he then stop inches from the ground (with apologies to spectators)?

I.P. Freleng et.al you are missed also

stede_Bonnet – indeed he is.

I think he’s falling for it…what he needs is a drag chute.

…or air brakes! (With regards to Bugs Bunny…)

OOOOOOPSIE!

GASP!

I believe that at this point Calvin probably needs some new Calvin Kleins.

I never tipped a rary.

Bdaysuit said: When you come right down to it ……. SPLAT !!!!

That’s the way Garfield acts with spiders.

Look in the sky!—it’s a bird—it’s a plane—it’s…….OMG!!

Does not look like ocean So no big big really big fish to put up with

Yesterday Milangirl192 said, “Puddleglum….you’re such a nerd”

nerd?…in a word…absurd! You could be arrested by Yukoner (Sgt. Preston of the RCMP) for slangder. “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)”

nerd Slang A foolish, socially inept, or unattractive person “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad - Meat Loaf

Joe Allen Doty, Put away the old collection of Calvins and enjoy the ride (fall) again. We all know this is old stuff, the young have never seen it and the old fans have forgotten what happens. Leave it at that.

One way or another Hobbes has got to be there when he … lands.

Lewreader said, “Now would be a nice time to get religion” If Calvin does get religion (after his namesake John Calvin the great religious reformer), he can land in a foxhole (or possibly a Wily Coyote hole). “There are no atheists in foxholes”. Speaking of Wily Coyote (which baslimthebegger did without mentioning his name), did “The Village Blacksmith” sing “The Anvil Chorus”?

I don’t think gasping is going to help this time. It’ll only make him pass out! :-)

redsheri, Calvin already passed out in yesterday’s strip, but that’s another story, “Hamster Huey and the Gooie Kablooie”.

Also yesterday thebird55 said, Hey, Puddleglum, keep the Bible quotes coming. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7

Again I say, “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad.” If you have a sound mind, you might figure out which one I’m missing; if you have love, you might show compassion; (more than Milangirl192 did), if you have power, you might keep it under control.

calvin could shout towards the ground ,then one of those comic talk balloons would break his fall

The baseball seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. I couldn’t understand why, and then it hit me.

It seems he forgot to wear his lucky underpants… good thing I guess… I would have soiled mine in that fall.

Joe Doty, What makes you think readers are clueless? I think everyone knows the strip was discontinued, these are re-runs and don’t necessarily run on the same date as they originally did. Many of us didn’t read them in the first run or have forgotten details, but that doesn’t make us clueless. The details that you posted above are irrelevant to enjoying the strip.

good idea bald!

Good to the last drop.

someone please wake me,hope it’s only a dream.

And don’t bother telling us to get a life. Some of us already did, then retired. We have a life already. How about you?

FYI, if you die in your sleep, you don’t die in real life. Or at least I don’t.

so many of those dreams

so much for those dreams SPLASH