November 21, 1985

Now we get the teacher putting quotation marks around tiger.  I wonder what Calvin was like before this to make everyone think he can't have any imagination. In the future I don't think Hobbes is brought to school much later in the strips but he gets put into lockers or something.  In the last panel I feel Calvin looks very real in comparison to the strips so far.  I think it is that it shows him having teeth for the first time.

November 20, 1985

I am wondering if this first arc takes place on the same day?  Calvin's dad is pretty busy, washing the car, writing at his desk.  Then he isn't even in bed himself when he goes in to yell at Calvin.  Big news in this strip!  Hobbes appears to be a stuffed tiger!  One of the biggest aspect of Calvin and Hobbes and it takes until the third strip to get there.  Calvin's dad also puts Hobbes' name in quotation marks.  He is a no nonsense guy here.  He can't even let Calvin have an imaginary friend!  Another note here, at the end if Calvin was playing the cymbals, why is Hobbes holding them at the end?