It was a Dark and Stormy Knight when….
Ooops, wrong scenario!
(and NOTE: I do not own the characters of Peanuts or Calvin and Hobbes – this cartoon panel was created solely to bring a smile to a very dear friend of mine.)
Let’s now examine this Brave New World via Panel 1, The Eternal Enemy: The Kite-Eating Tree!
Charlie Brown stares at his kite stuck in the tree, sighing.
- Charlie Brown: Good grief… same tree, same kite. Same humiliation.
Panel 2: Good Grief, Wormhole!
Suddenly, the air warps like a bad TV signal. Charlie is yanked through!
- Charlie Brown: AHHHHH!
- Narrator box: And just like that – he’s gone.
Panel 3: Civilization, Conquered!
Cut to the baseball field. Calvin, wearing his cardboard space helmet, looks around.
- Calvin: Huh? Where’s Hobbes? And what’s with this baseball field?
- Lucy (off-panel): HEY, KID! Get off the pitcher’s mound!
- Calvin: Excellent. I’ve conquered a new civilization.
Panel 4: Attack of the Snowmen Horde
Back in Peanuts-land. Charlie Brown is surrounded by Calvin’s snowmen – each armed with menacing icicle weapons.
- Charlie Brown: Wh-what is this?!
- Calvin (off-panel): My army. Pretty cool, right?
- Charlie Brown: I miss Linus.
Panel 5: Buddy Cop Crossover Begins
Snoopy lounges on his doghouse, sensing something’s wrong. Hobbes stands nearby, arms folded.
- Hobbes: Your kid missing?
- Snoopy (thought bubble): Affirmative. Suspect temporal nonsense.
- Hobbes: Mine too. Buddy cop mission?
Panel 6: Aerial Combat on the Mound
The Red Baron’s biplane buzzes the baseball field. Calvin ducks. Charlie Brown faints.
- Calvin: AWESOME! Actual aerial combat!
- Charlie Brown: I knew I should’ve stayed in bed.
Panel 7: Spiff vs. The Psychiatrist
Spaceman Spiff crashes his cardboard ship into Lucy’s psychiatric booth.
- Lucy (furious): Hey! Five cents for damages!
- Spaceman Spiff: Silence, Earthling! I demand rocket fuel!
Panel 8: Claws, Compound Interest, and Chaos
Hobbes confronts Spaceman Spiff, claws flexed. Snoopy swoops in above, chasing the Red Baron.
- Hobbes: Look, Captain Cardboard. You ripped reality apart. Fix it.
- Spiff: Never!
- Lucy: I’ll start charging compound interest.
- Spiff: Okay, okay, fine!
Panel 9: The Glittery Portal of Doom
Spiff frantically presses buttons on a cardboard: “Transmogrifier Control Panel.” A glowing wormhole swirls open.
- Spiff: Behold! A dimensional repair portal!
- Hobbes: Translation: a box with glitter. Works for me.
Panel 10: Epic vs. Not Football
Calvin stumbles back into his own yard, hair frazzled, grinning wildly. Charlie Brown reappears on the pitcher’s mound, clutching Snoopy.
- Calvin: That was EPIC!
- Charlie Brown: That was NOT preferable to football!
- Snoopy (thought bubble, lounging): Mission accomplished. Nap time.
Panel 11: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!
Charlie and Calvin sit on the curb. Snoopy leans back coolly, Hobbes towers smugly.
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Calvin: My snowmen army almost won, right Hobbes?
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Hobbes: They melted faster than your logic.
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Charlie Brown: Snoopy, was I at least brave?
- Snoopy : Always, Kiddo – You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown!
The End
(and Made by the Power of Friendship and Love)
I do not own the characters of Peanuts or Calvin and Hobbes – this cartoon panel was created solely to bring a smile to a very dear friend of mine.
Enjoy!
