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No. 986: Who Gave Calvin Explosives Anyhow?

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Who Gave Calvin Explosives Anyhow?

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=986

Strip by: MichaelSar

{Calvin walks up to his mother holding a stick of dynamite}
Calvin: Give me some cookies, or I light the fuse and send us all to kingdom come!
{Calvin's mom assumes that the stick of dynamite is actually just a hot dog with a string in it - which, to be fair, it DOES look like - and goes back to watering her houseplants}
Calvin's Mom: No. Go play outside.
{Calvin lights the fuse, and sure enough it IS an actual stick of dynamite and there's a massive explosion, sending Calvin, his mom, and his dad flying to kingdom come. Calvin suddenly becomes full-color while his parents are still in black and white. I have no idea why that is}
SFX: PFOOM!
{Hobbes, meanwhile, watches this from the safety of the second-floor window of another house}
Hobbes: I'm gonna be honest, folks. I thought he was just bluffing too.

The author writes:

I thought of this while looking at r/okaybuddyrosalyn on Reddit. My mind goes to weird places sometimes...

Original Calvin and Hobbes strips: 1985-12-27, 1986-03-30, 1986-08-31, 1988-05-24, 1988-08-20, 1988-11-06 (can be read at all of the following links.)