Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 21, 2010

Oh lordy! Love Hobbes’ comment.

Haha, thats no bear! thats a mad mom!

Let’s hope that tree’s tall enough

Hey Calvin play dead! The bear will leave you alone.

Yeah, Calvin, go for the sympathy bit……parents can’t yell at you as much!

Better to face the bear than your Mom.

Yeah “bear” alright … more like “momma bear”

I doubt playing dead here will help …

Obvious it’s mom.

Haha…… Love Calvin’s thoughts… I was expecting a scornful comment from Calvin to Hobbes,”I thought tigers are the most ferocious animals”.

Sorry that I ask, but what does “Parents saved the trouble” mean? Is it, that the parents won’t have trouble anymore, because the killed boy won’t make any troubles?

Tineli: The parents were gonna kill him, but the bear saved them the trouble.

Just grin and bear it.

Or was that “bare it?”

( Bikini joke)

Tineli, No, even better: It means that the bear saved the parents from the trouble of killing Calvin themselves.

texassoldier86 Ha! You’ve read this story arc before huh? :-D

The last I heard, Hobbes, tigers can hold their own very well against bears.

If tigers are the best ferocious animal , then y is sittting in the tree!!……….lov calvins report!!!LOL

Tiger, Tiger, Running in fright, In the forest near twilight. Is that a bear that you spy? Or some other of awful symmetry.

Run Hobbes… It’s not a bear but something far far worse

BinaryWiener

Huge Calvin & Hobbes Fan. Used to have all of the book collections! Not sure, but i think i may have read almost all of them!

Calvin is in a tough jam and really ‘up a tree’. ‘Bear’ facts show he’s on the lam, and soon will not be free

Lewreader, You sound sincere and humble. Forgiving others becomes easier when you consider what God has forgiven you (and me) when he came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ, his only begotten son, who lived a sinless life and thereby qualified to die a vicarious death on the cross paying the penalty for our sins. When we repent of our sins and accept Jesus by faith as our personal savior, we are regenerated spiritually and the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us. In the power of the Holy Spirit we can forgive. God forgives us for eternity to reconcile us to him forever. He also forgives us for fellowship with him in this life. I don’t know how much you already knew of all this, but I hope it helps. May the Lord bless you!

I haven’t read this arc before but it’s pretty easy to see where it’s going. Not a good destination for Calvin, I’m afraid. Hobbes, on the other hand, will get off pretty easy. Stuffed animals always do.

I think if I were Calvin, I wouldn’t play dead, I’d play stuffed.

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LOL. moM WILL EAT CALVIN

PUDDLEGLUM It is hard enough to believe through Grace alone we receive forgiveness. But that line in His prayer, “as we forgive others” seems to be the fine print in the contract. It is wonderful if I become willing to forgive, but what if I don’t. Ahhh, there’s the rub. Should have read the fine print.

Yeah, they best hope a bear finds them before mom does….but got a feeling there’s a bear hug involved either way.

Thanks PUDDLEGLUM2.

Must be a mama grizzly

Bad idea, bears are good climbers. Hobbes, you are very ferocious indeed, sitting in the treetrop…

Lewreader, God is all-forgiving… but you are in one way true that grace of God alone is not enough to realise Him… we also need grace of our minds… we should follow His commands, should lead moral and ethical lives and most importantly our hearts should long for Him alone… Then we can realise His grace, His mercy, He Himself…

Calvin should realise how not to make his mother mad…

‘Morning Mike. How does Loki like the new hours? More nap time?

Love how Hobbes put the bear snack (Calvin) between him and the bear. You souldn’t have eaten all the sandwiches guys.

That sound crashing through the trees is probably one very irate mother.

Look for the bare nessities, forget about your worries and your strife

…who lived a sinless life and thereby qualified to die a vicarious death on the cross paying the penalty for our sins..

vicarious?

it all made no sense to me when the nuns were throwing erasers and slapping my knuckles with rulers for asking questions and makes even less sense now when it appears on a comics forum

Well I’ve been “copyin’ the mail” for a while and decided as a long time fan to jump in. First, for those of you who are truly worried, having read all the strips several times I am fairly certain this is not the end, and just like the old time movie serials, Calvin will squeak out of this to return next week in a whole new thread! I promise. And some of the comments today implying Calvin should get religion seem to remind me of the saying “there are no atheists in fox holes.” It’s what one does after the smoke clears that counts. Bill Watterson did bring religion and philosophy into his work on many occasions, but if Calvin stopped getting into trouble he’d stop running out of story ideas, which he did eventually anyway.

The hideout of Hobbes is phenomenal, but bears are good climbers!

I can’t “bear” the suspense!

(nor the bad puns!) lol

Bears are nothing Its going to get DARK soon every thing comes out after dark.

I didn’t think tigers were afraid of anything! Obviously, bears must be an exception to that!

bet its betr to be eaten by a bear then face ur mom way aftr curfew

No. A bear is simply superior to a tiger. In any fight, the bear would win. A swipe from a bear would rip a human to shreds. The same goes for tigers. Have you ever heard a bear’s roar?

Yes, bears can climb trees, but moms can’t, no matter how irate they are. But they can wait you out, Calvin.

Mom’s mad as a bear for sure.

Billdi - His life for our lives, His death for our death, His Hell for our Heaven. Pretty simple. We did not, indeed cannot, die for ourselves to effect an adequate legal propitiation. We appropriate His actions on our behalf vicariously, and trust that they are completely adequate. Calvin is prescient in this cartoon. Can hardly wait to see what happens when his mother finds him in the tree….

cdward, i love your comment. LOL!!

“I haven’t read this arc before but it’s pretty easy to see where it’s going. Not a good destination for Calvin, I’m afraid. Hobbes, on the other hand, will get off pretty easy. Stuffed animals always do. I think if I were Calvin, I wouldn’t play dead, I’d play stuffed.”

I think, tiger would win against bears!

“I think if I were Calvin, I wouldn’t play dead, I’d play stuffed.”

Good idea. rofl

Thanks for the answers to my question.

Some of you are right, but to a point, it’s baby bears that climb trees not the grown bears. Bears use their claws to climb, the height of the bear will pull out the claws. How would you like your nail pull out .Would not feel good! The same with the bear.Besides grown bears don’t have to climb a tree. Do you really want to mess with one? I know I don’t !

Calvin and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!

LadybugMacon: Actually, grown black bears climb trees very well - it’s the large brown bears (the Grizzly and Kodiak) that don’t climb, because of their straight (as opposed to curved) claws. However, a Grizzly can still come up after you if the branches are spaced enough for it to climb it like a ladder. Of course, it’s always best not to have to try to out-climb a bear in the first place…

This is a cartoon website not a pulpit ..leave your religious teachings at home

Mom is probably more worried right now than she is mad. But after she determines that Calvin is alright, then she’ll be mad. Dad may be called home, too.

There is a difference between discussing and preaching. Lew and Puddle (and whomever else) may discuss what they wish. If you feel you are being preached to, I’m sorry. But maybe ‘Someone’ is trying to get your attention.

Love Hobbes’ facials on last panel. It’s such a look of contempt.

Puddleglum, thanks for starting a worthwhile discussion.

At this point Calvin may feel the need to pray.

I’m thinking that, whether you’re a traditional Christian or merely “spiritual”, the difficult thing about forgiving (so that one can better be forgiven in return) is not that one must be strong enough.

The difficult thing is to surrender enough - to yield one’s own ego, desires, preconceptions, etc. Forgiving is letting go, not merely achieving by force of will.

It makes sense that yielding is a gift we give, which can earn a gift in return (although not necessarily the gift of our choice!).

kidpester yes

marvee, you’re right. Mom will make sure Calvin is all right. Then she’ll kill him.

Tiger sat by & watched.

On the practical side of forgiveness: I don’t remember where I picked this up but, “Anger is an acid which corrodes the vessel that holds it.”

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