Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 05, 2010

The games continue…

G’morning, margueritem!

Be careful! Her interrogation methods are horrendous!

Clench your teeth much, Mom?

Sounds like digging own grave.

Soon she will be milk’in-boarding him.

‘Morning, VB!

I think she is beginning to get upset, Calvin! More than usual I mean.

Zogwarg Queen….I should have tried that on my mom….or maybe not!

Give me liberty or give me death ….

Be careful, you are giving her ideas, Calvin.

I messed with my mom’s head…..I didn’t realize I was a Calvin. My poor mother……….

I’m still in favour of applying the board of education to his seat of learning. Done properly it will make him an upstanding student.

This ability of looking ahead only one minute and not bothering with any consequences - how much do I wish myself back to this period!!!

Good morning everyone!

Mom…….a Mom must forgive! Mom is someone, you will love always without end!

Calvin’s got a great imagination, but right now mom fails to see the humor in it.

Calvin,

Careful what you wish for…You may get it!

Calvin-s mom gesture, in the last panel, was copied from my very own mom, my wife copied it it from her, and used it a lot with our own children

Can’t believe that she caught him,Calvin you’re going to have a big surprise when you get home,if you get home.

Mom’s teeth in panel three remind me of the newly discovered Abydosaurus Mcintoshi dinosaurs (I wonder if they’re related to Zogwargs).

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100224-new-giant-dinosaur-species-skulls-utah/

Drop spiff for know look out for poor Calvin

Egad! Zogwarg queens are exceptionally mean when angry and have evil looking teeth. Spif is in deep monkey muffins this time.

And Calvin’s mom gave him “THE LOOK”. When I do that, my son says, “OH NO! DON’T GIVE ME THAT LOOK!” When his big sister does it to her kids, he once asked how come she could do that & she never used to before, I told him only moms can give “THE LOOK”.

Mom should look on the bright side - at least she’s Zogwarg royalty!

He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Proverbs 13:24

Calvin – er Spiff – the Zogwargs have won this round.

Calvin, Mom’s in a foul mood. I would NOT give her any ideas.

Only name, rank and serial number, Cal.

a mom gives her children unconditional love, but in calvin’s case there are exceptions

she just gave you those angry eyes…..

they are more frightening than alice’s angry eyes in cul de sac when she gives them

If I were a woman I think I’d rather be a Zogwarg Queen than Calvin’s mom.

Good post Yukoner! “board of education,” “seat of learning,” “upstanding student.” A perfect solution.

cute.

When mine push too far, it better be “yes, ma’am!”.

I see Calvin is still in his own private virtual reality world….

Calvin, you took this episode one step too far. Mom was handling your misbehaving very calmly, explaining what you did had consequences for others, and then you blew it. Better learn from this.

And still she won’t tan the little brat’s rear! It’s all quacks like Benjamen Spock’s fault! How would they have known how to raise children when they were never mothers!

Do any of you dorks get that this is a comic of a kid with an overactive imagination? Yes I do get aggravated by my nephews imaginations at times but I wouldnt change it for the world nor punish them just for makin me late for school. Its more time with the kid while they grow up and more stories to embarrass them with at the high school graduation and more.

…no shackles, chains or seat belt will ever hold Spaceman Spiff prisoner, Zogwarg Queen!

Just love Calvin’s expression in the last panel, absolutely PRICELESS!

Don’t give the Zogwarg Queen any more than your name, rank and serial number, Spiff.

talk ‘bout ADHD eh calvin…

RTN

I don’t see what Laughter2K10 said that has Trainwreck in such an uproar. Dork isn’t a swear word, and his/her opinion is the majority here. We happen to enjoy Calvin.

I had someone tell me she was offended by the word tramp, but said she didn’t even know what it meant, which also helps explain all the spelling around here.

Thanks for that link Florchi. That was a very interesting discovery!

…and the teeth do look like Calvin’s mom’s teeth in that last panel.

back to the drawing board of failed escape plans. Haha! All Hail Queen Zogwarg (mom)!!!

I can see that Laughter shouldn’t be calling other commenters demeaning names, even if the name isn’t a “swear word”.

But I’d rather see flagging than flogging, and my issue is the idea of a “Board of Education” being applied to Calvin’s rump. Corporal punishment would destroy the strip. First, not many who actually like Calvin would enjoy seeing it applied, or seeing Calvin magically turn into a goody-two-shoes thereafter. Second, I actually think it would be likelier not to work, but rather turn Calvin into a vicious sort who would just try to damage everybody for the sake of vandalizing their lives. We’ve all seen enough of that type in real life. I prefer the super-committed visionary we’ve got!

Er. Calvin does turn good for an interesting turn (or rather, a transmogrified “clone” of him does), and oddly enough, I find him even more interesting that way.

It’s easy (relatively speaking, now that Calvin and Hobbes has pioneered the way) to portray a child that’s a total screwball. It’s hard to portray a child who knows when to be totally serious and when to be a total screwball. Hollywood doesn’t know how to do it, no cartoonist I know of knows how to do it, even Bill W. only succeeded because he allowed himself the license of having Calvin clone his “good side”. (The creators of some older characters come close, to be fair.)

I fear it will only be bread and water for a month for Spaceman Spiff

“I’ve got to drive you (to school) and your Dad will be late for work”.

What, they only have one car for the family?

If she’s a stay-at-home mom without even a part-time job to go to during the hours Calvin is in school and Calvin takes the bus anyhow … why would they need two cars? One salary has to go a long way in that household (especially when Calvin and his best buddy, Hobbes, destroy everything in the living room while playing!) so it would just seem to me that two cars would be an unnecessary luxury for them.

this may be why Calvin and Hobbes really ended his mom or dad finally killed him

By the way, we’re all adults here (or at least we’re supposed to be anyhow).

This comic may be about the antics of a precocious 6-year-old boy with a stuffed tiger and an overly-active imagination but I don’t think that means WE have to behave like we’re 6-year-old kids too.

Why can’t we politely agree to disagree sometimes and just leave it at that? Why does anybody have to call someone else names of ANY kind just because you don’t particularly (agree) with something they’ve said? As long as the forum’s rules aren’t violated in any way, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and no one should either be attacked for expressing that opinion or be forced into silence for fear of being attacked for their opinion so please have the decency to be respectful. If you wouldn’t want someone to talk this way towards you for expressing your opinion, then please don’t talk that way towards someone else when they express theirs.

My “Mommie Dearest” mother had that look on her face all too frequently. The fact that both my sister and I are still alive is an extraordinary testimony to the grace of God. I still can’t watch the movie even to this day at the age of 66 - too painful.

Dorks of the World Unite! Embrace your dork-dom! To be a dork is to love one! Waterson is hereby nominated “King of the Dorks” and all dork-dom shall bow in reverence as his loyal subjects!

Please join me as we sing the Dork-dom National Anthem!

“I’m a dork, you’re a dork, we’re all dorks, Hooray! If you’re not a dork we still think you’re okay! Dork! Dork! Dork! Dork! Dork!”

Bring on the flags!

I love the way her face is totally focused on his in each frame.

When Patrick Henry said the above quote, it was meant and taken literally, as was the statement of other that pledged “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”

I do not think anybody remembers me at that age but I had a little bit of Calvin,s problems

If I remove my pocket protector while graduate to Dorkdom?

Oh Calvin you’re something else

Couldn’t have said it better myself (GretchensMom). Why can’t we all just enjoy the comic strip and leave each other alone?

Gretchen is fortunate to have a mom like GretchensMom. I wish there were more like you.

calvin looks so cute in the third panel’

I wonder why she didn’t make him walk to school?