Our Calvin and Hobbes Moment

As a big fan of Calvin and Hobbes, one of my favorite strips is where Calvin’s mom is telling his dad about a recent Parent-Teacher conference,
“There were all these cute pictures the children drew of themselves and then I saw Calvin’s; he was green and had a third eye.”
The dad asks, “How did the rest of the meeting go?”
The mom replies, “It went down hill from there.”

While I am paraphrasing the comic, we had a similar experience at Penguin’s first Parent-Teacher conference at his new school.
Since it was in the Fall all of the kids had colored a scarecrow; they were all cute with brown or blue eyes and denim overalls. My wife and I looked for our son’s picture. We found it on the front door. His scarecrow had a blue face, sharp teeth, and guns. We both thought of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon and laughed. Fortunately for us, our meeting was positive after that moment.

I asked Penguin why he colored and changed the scarecrow the way that he did and he said,
“It is Cad Bane.”
After he said that I could see the resemblance and was impressed with his drawing abilities.

For those of you that do not know who Cad Bane is, he is a famous bounty hunter character in the Cartoon Network’s series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars. (For more information than you probably care for, you can click the above Cad Bane hyperlink.)