Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 08, 2024

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    codycab  3 months ago

    And plain crazy!

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    bopbopimacop  3 months ago

    I really like that second panel. You don’t usually see Hobbes drawn with quite that much detail.

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    lalapalooza Premium Member 3 months ago

    so odd, usually you cannot keep a cat out of a box.

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    Faron  3 months ago

    1 of the many versions of a box in Calvin and Hobbes

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    sirbadger  3 months ago

    Back then, herbivores ate fruit shaped like Calvin’s head.

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    hariseldon59  3 months ago

    Plenty of non carnivorous animals can kill you.

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    snsurone76  3 months ago

    Where I live, cardboard boxes are picked up on Saturdays. Calvin is lucky that today is only Monday.

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    orinoco womble  3 months ago

    Hobbes is the only feline who doesn’t love cardboard boxes. Of course living with Calvin, he has good reason.

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    PaulAbbott2  3 months ago

    Kudos to a kid who can have fun with a plain cardboard box. Now kids need a game platform, a controller, a comfy chair and no imagination

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    lucky444  3 months ago

    It’s just a Musical Box Hobbes.

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    Mediatech  3 months ago

    I haven’t had much experience with large herbivores, but I spent enough time on a farm that I can picture several extremely unpleasant events that can happen in proximity to a cow.

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    MichaelAxelFleming  3 months ago

    But cats love boxes!

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    Jayalexander  3 months ago

    Experience is a terrible thing to waste.

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    cracker65  3 months ago

    Indeed

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    Calvinist1966  3 months ago

    Calvin seems to be missing the point that Hobbes is afraid of the cardboard box whether it is a time machine, a duplicator or a transmogrifier. The fact that Hobbes is more afraid of the cardboard box than of dinosaurs will be made again later in this story arc.

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    Dr. Quatermass  3 months ago

    “Oh no, I’m not getting in that box.”

    Ahh, my wedding night.

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    The Angel of the South  3 months ago

    Yes, it was a carnivore. Calvin told his mother the dinosaur “almost ate [them].” Unless there’s another story arc where they made the same trip but tangled with a herbivorous dinosaur (which sounds odd);

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    old_geek  3 months ago

    Come on Hobbes. Don’t you know a Time Machine when you see one?

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 3 months ago

    If he jumped into the box with Jimi Hendrix he would be psychodilysized in a purple haze. Are you experienced?

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    sandpiper  3 months ago

    Hobbes usually is very subtle in his reactions to Cal’s efforts. This one got a straight shot.

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    SquidGamerGal  3 months ago

    Hobbes is right! For all we know, you could end up in the path of a Triceratops stampede!

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    mindjob  3 months ago

    He should at least listen to the get rich quick scheme first

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    Just-me  3 months ago

    Lots of fun can be had in a large cardboard box with a bit of imagination. When I was about 6, my dad brought home a cardboard box from an appliance store. I colored one side to resemble (to me anyway) the nose of an airplane, another to be the nose of a submarine, another a car and the other a tank. I spent hours playing in that thing until one day I forgot to drag it up onto the porch and it got soaked in heavy rain. The things you remember from a your childhood…

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    RobinHood  3 months ago

    That’s what every one says to Doctor Who

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    BJDucer  3 months ago

    I’m kinda certain it’s not the box that causes the troubles, it’s Calvin’s over active imagination that finds a manner to make things exciting. How many other people can claim to have been attacked by a dinosaur after stepping into a box? Is there a such a thing as a kid having too much of an imagination?

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    g04922  3 months ago

    LOL… So, Calvin’s alter ego is having doubts about Calvin, too??

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 3 months ago

    That why “Porch Pirates” perform a useful service by removing boxes before they can wreak havoc. ;-p

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    rshive  3 months ago

    Hobbes is adventurous. But he does have limits.

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    Purple People Eater  3 months ago

    I thought cats liked boxes.

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    jconnors3954  3 months ago

    Such imagination! We just used ours to slide down a weed covered hill.

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    wiley207  3 months ago

    The final story arc from one of my favorite book collections: “Scientific Progress Goes Boink!”

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    zarilla  3 months ago

    Hobbes: “don’t bother me” in the last two panels.

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    mistercatworks  3 months ago

    I’m worried about what it is when the bottom is open. :)

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    kathleenhicks62  3 months ago

    Hobbes! where did your imagination go?

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    coffeeturtle  3 months ago

    TRUTH!!!

    8^)

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    DKHenderson  3 months ago

    The box is productive of excellent story arcs, whether open at the top, crawling in at the bottom, or going in through the side!

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    klapre  3 months ago

    I love his imagination. Cover open = time machine. Cover closed pointing one way = duplication. Cover closed pointing the other way = Transmogrifier. Cardboard boxes always made the best toys for kids in olden days.

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    willie_mctell  3 months ago

    You’d think Hobbes would like getting in boxes.

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    Curiosity Premium Member 3 months ago

    I never met a cat who could refrain from getting in a box.

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    BJDucer  3 months ago

    All these comments remind me of a time of a misplaced daughter at home. We just noticed how quiet it had gotten, but an initial search for her ended up empty. She wasn’t old enough to open the doors to the outside, nor was she one to play hide-n-seek without notice, so a more thorough search ensued. Eventually she was found inside a box (about the size of Calvin’s) located in the living room, sound asleep, with an afghan blanket pulled over her. It was well known she enjoyed playing in the box, though the thought never came up she thought of it as a place to nap, too!

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    Arghhgarrr Premium Member 3 months ago

    Just tell Hobbes that a tuna sandwich has been packed and is ready for eating.

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    Earnestly Frank  3 months ago

    What could go wrong?

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    Strawberry King  3 months ago

    No means no.

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    glowing-steak32  about 2 months ago

    Apparently Calvin learned that the dinosaur was an herbivore after the last time, since he was panicking with Hobbes too.

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