Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 08, 2023

Calvin’s right. He knows when he’s had his fill.

Did you actually learn anything, Calvin?

I’ll show her. I’ll just zoom off to another planet and fight monsters.

The look on her face, you’ll be thru all right. And do that again and she’ll be thru with you. (like you want)

Ogres rule

He lives in his own universe, and treats reality as a nuisance!!

Miss Wormwood is so scary that Calvin doesn’t NEED to imagine her as a space monster.

Amazing how much bigger our teachers seemed at that age.

Panel three is when the wife gives me the “uh uh, no way” sign when I try to grab that elusive 5th beer at a family reunion.

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.” (Revelation 8:10-11, NIV)

And you have to come back on Monday as well…….

The Great Wall of Wormwood.

You have my sympathy, kiddo! :)

Never have polka dots looked so intimidating

You will be all through once Godzilla stops roaming the classroom.

Panel 3 stands independently as a brilliant piece of art.

Gallant effort, for a few seconds.

nice try Calvin.

Just seeing that look on Calvin’s face in the final panel!

Reality can sometimes be a bummer

Ummm I don’t think so, Calvin!

“Can I Go Home Now? My Brain Is Full”. ~ Gary Larson “The Far Side”

In this case, Calvin, might makes right.

You can lead Calvin to his desk, but you can’t make him learn.

Thus, the Genisus of “work from home” was delayed, again.

Calvin, you just learned that you’re not done learning.

Umm, the first mistake was announcing to the class and your teacher you were done for the day. You might have gotten away with it had you simply walked out…at least until your teacher and your parents started looking for you.

Large Marge, and in Charge!

Oh nooo…. the same teacher as last year ! Going to be a rough year – for Both of them…

Best he learn the lesson now that he doesn’t control his own life or it’ll be a shock as an adult when the boss wants him to work his full shift

The perspective in panel three is cracking me up. Watterson was such a brilliant artist!

Poor Ms. Wormwood, she had Calvin as a perpetual student.

School rules.

You can decide to stop learning, eating, breathing, etc. You are only hurting yourself.

So that’s how Mrs. W. looks like to Calvin…

Reminds me of driving by my old elementary school building, years later after my parents moved to another town for work…That building seemed so large when I went there from grades one to four… then in my twenties, when I saw it again, it looked rather cozy and inviting…

If only I could do that at work, and get away with it.

“excuse me. My brain is full. May we leave now?”

You can do this in college. Or at least you can at mine.

Of course he’s a better judge, he’s a genius.

“I reject your reality and substitute my own."

Put Mrs. Wormwood in a nun’s clothes and a habit and she’d look like my 1st grade teacher looming over us kids! At least Mrs. W didn’t master the arcane martial art of yard stick!

He’ll have to emphasize his point by spilling fake brains on his desk

Just because you’re through doesn’t mean the school is through with you.

And this comic, pretty much nails what it’s like to have A.D.D. as a kid, like I did.

Reality called. Calvin hung up.