Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 06, 2009

How about comments from us, Calvin?

Oh no, the evil bicycle?

If you fall off and try again, are you recycling?

If he falls off, he’ll just roll the rest of the way himself.

Calvin, you forgot knee pads. Didn’t you know that is the most important thing when you are learning to ride a bicycle ?

…and elbo pads, and head pads, and…

Eveything but a helmet….mind you, Calvin’s pretty hard headed.

I thought that Calvin was cold.

“Les Bicyclettes de Belsize” - Engelbert Humperdinck Calvin needs a “bicycle built for two”. Then Hobbes can ride in tandem with Calvin and show him how it’s done.

So many sheets of clothes are a good pretext of getting fat!

Pumping or plumping your ride Calvin ?

Well at least he should not be top heavy anymore - I pity anybody with such a big head trying to ride a bike.

Hey - he looks like a little Chinese kid between October and May (Chinese parents think if their kid is wearing fewer than 4 layers in the late fall/winter/early spring the kid is going to fall over dead).

He forgot gloves. Scraped my palms up something awful, once upon a time.

someone is very touchy ..

Padding… Good thinking… A helmet would be necessary, I don’t think he’s got such a hard head…

Definitely the helmet! But all he really needs is hockey gear!

Comments sometimes does that to people….

If Calvin falls off, he’ll just bounce back.

Keep giving him shots, Hobbes. He blames you all the time anyhow!

My first thought about learning to ride a bicycle was why do the put a bar on the boys bike and not on the girls. That bar hurts when you run into something and leave the seat.

So much protection takes all the fun out of it.

he is going to bounce when he falls

When I first learned to ride a bike my mom told me the next morning that she checked in on me in the middle of the night and my legs were pedaling in my sleep.

jrbj, Your comment about the boy’s bike is ‘without exception; indisputable’, bar none. Most girls used to wear dresses or skirts. The bar would/could hinder their pedaling.

Have you (anyone) seen ZITS today? “Who(m) do we know with a couch saw?” We saw Calvin with a saw a while back.

JanCinVV (and grazer), please see my late post from yesterday, if you haven’t already done so.

Yeah, I saw Zits. Too bad Calvin can’t cross over to actually do the sawing himself.

I think he’s got so much stuff on it’s going to be rather hard to pedal. Even walking looks like a problem for him.

Sadly, most American kids already look like Calvin in the last panel WITHOUT the additional padding. At least Calvin’s trying to actually ride a real bike rather than pretending to be Tony Hawk on his Playstation while shoveling Cheetoes into his pie hole.

I thought winters come!

if calvin is using all those layers what is it going to be like in the winter when you need layers to keep warm in the winter ?

Harumph, and here I was thinking that the last panel might be where Matt & Trey got the idea for Eric Cartman.

… think that Calvin was ahead of his time ..that’s how kids dresses nowadays, underwear …sweat shorts … jeans …. layers …

My mind went to the movie “A Christmas Story” where the brother was so bundled he couldn’t walk and fell on his back where he got stuck like a turtle. What a great movie. “You’ll shoot yer eye out kid.”

He doesn’t need a bicycle to roll around on, he can roll on his own.

He looks like the guy on “Regis and Kelly” a couple weeks ago trying to set a world record for wearing the most T-shirts at the same time. Except he almost died in the attempt…

@tonytiger29, I thought of Randy Parker in A Christmas Story also! LOL!

Calvin and his bike, as me and my life; we run, we hide, we keep on trying… go for it little guy…

BC13, Yes, some of the comics do have crossovers from time to time. Calvin might have to be concerned with copyright infringement unless he could ‘crosscut’ over, surreptitiously. “Crossover (fiction), a storyline shared between two fictional universes, or involving characters from multiple universes” - Wickipedia That would be right up Calvin’s imaginary alley.

Zits are not here!

No they are here: http://www.seattlepi.com/fun/zits.asp

I do hope he remembered to go to the bathroom first.

Calvin doesn’t need more padding; he needs a tricycle. He should haul the possessed bicycle to the scrap metal dealer.

The use of safety equipment including helmets, knee pads, and elbow pads for sports other than hockey and football wasn’t used back then. Wearing alot of layers like that and wearing a football helmet was all you had. These were much different times in which no one wore seat belts in cars either. Everybody stuffed the seat belts down in the seat because they hurt if you sat on one! I do remember getting smart like Calvin one day and stuffing the back of my pants before heading out again to learn to ice skate. As for bike riding I decided to teach myself to learn to ride in the backyard for a much softer landing!

Hobbes opinions should be listened to

If childhood is so awfully dangerous, how come so many idiots survive to become adults?

I think the helmet would be to protect the concrete from Calvin’s head,

BC 13, Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love the comic strip “Zits” but have never been able to find a way to read it daily. The only problem is that I keep looking for astute comments, but none to be found :-(

Good thinking Calvin, not wearing a helmet… your head’s so hard if you actually used it your hard head would break it on impact.

Good thinking not wearing a helmet…… your head’s so hard it would probably break the helmet on impact. I mean, it’s made of PLASTIC, for pete’s sake!!

calvin looks like he ate alot

sjoujke is correct, Calvin doesn’t necessarily need a helmet. He rides his wagon down Death Gulch, hits several trees, and lives to tell about it…

the bicycle will crush his pair of clothes

if you roll down the hill you wont need a bike will you?

I remember padding up like that

I did exactly what Calvin did in this strip, just out of curiosity. It took me like almost an hour to try and get out of the layers of clothing HAHA