Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 13, 2024

Calvin, save it for your book report…..

Unless it’s Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie. That doesn’t need its own movie.

Is this an effective way of remaining an only child?

“Why did you bring me that book I didn’t want to be read to out of up for?”

Rosalyn could write a book about kids like Calvin—trouble is, the title “Adventures in Babysitting” has already been taken.

But it has been turned into a comic strip.

The story was popular back in the day when there were fewer choices.

Those are all valid concerns.

P.S. A movie reviewer once made a comment while reviewing a poorly-made movie, that the book is better. His fellow reviewer asked, “Which book?” since that movie wasn’t based on any book. His reply was, “Any book”. :)

The purpose of a bedtime story is to put you to sleep, not entertain. Wait a sec, that’s what most movies do nowadays.

Does Dad even have a video player?

Once there was sad little boy who was hit by a flying book.

Calvin would drive me crazy. He has enough energy for three children.

A bowl of Sugar Bombs for supper might not have been the best idea……

It hasn’t been made into a movie, but it has been made into a comic strip.

I think they did make it into a comic strip.

On second read, a bit too ‘adult’ for a kid, who almost never reads anything except comics and probably has never heard all the terms he’s spouting.

Yeah, it was called “Home Alone”.

‘The Kid Strangler’ by Calvin’s Dad became a No. 1 Best Seller. Everyone agreed ‘’he had it coming’’.

DO YOU WANT A BEDTIME STORY OR NOT?!

What’s the difference between a fairytale and a war story? A fairytale begins “once upon a time” and a war story begins “this is no $hit”

Calvin has got my vocabulary beat hands down. Miss Wormwood must be doing something right though it may cost her mental health dearly or maybe it is the comics and the gum magazine he reads.

The story could be well established within a daily comic strip, Calvin.

Don’t think he really wants a story!!!!!!

I think I would really, really, enjoy listening to a conversation between Calvin and Caufield (from the Frazz comic strip) regarding books, time travel, and mankind’s future.

Obviously, Calvin is NOT sleepy…

The critics panned it, but the audiences loved it

“Once there was a time I’d rob my mamaFor a good meal and a smoke”

Is this the book that was adapted into a movie by Quinten Tarantino?

Calvin invented Goodreads.

Here’s a great one, Calvin. Your Dad should read you this : “It was a bright day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

“How many languages has it been printed in?”

Wow! I didn’t know “Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie” was on the NYT’s best seller list. It must have been for Calvin to approve of it.

The New York Times ran a Top 100 Books of the 21st Century list last month. Two, actually: one based on a poll of published authors, one on a poll of readers. There were significant differences between the two lists.

The authors’ list included only four books that I’d read, two of which I liked and two of which I definitely did not. The readers’ list had three of those four books, albeit in different placements, and included one which I’d read and liked that did not make the authors’ list, as well as a book that I’d started but hadn’t finished because life interfered. Otherwise, both lists had tons of books I’d never heard of, and handfuls that I knew of by reputation and didn’t have any interest in.

I guess the moral of the story is, commercial and critical success are no guarantees of a book’s quality.

“Is it all in one book or do they drag it out to a trilogy?”

Has it been on morning TV yet? What do Gale, Tony, and Nate think ???? … ;-0

Whenever its not Hamster Huey…

That’s why we have junior novels today.