Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 01, 2024

Three points? New record!

Seems like Spaceman Spiff is doing a good job as Calvin’s math tutor.

Calvin would be great on the current “Gasoline Alley” arc—much better than the kid Jones and the doll Ida Noe!

Spiffy

I wonder if there exists a teacher who could utilize Calvin’s brilliant imagination as a tool to help him learn. It sure ain’t Miss Wormwood!

Who says math doesn’t come in handy in real life?

They are going to have him for lunch.

10 – 3 = 7

Watterson would have had a stellar career as a scriptwriter in Hollywood

Simply brilliant.

Cosmic!

Great art as always and Super Cal at the helm. Good stuff.

The hero of Zog!

Fortunately the Frap Ray didn’t turn him into a Frappuccino…

Every win is a victory, regardless of the insurmountable odds or however unlikely :0)

Frap ray. Freem Drive! Just spectacular verbiage with wonderful art and hilarity!

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.

After his father’s weird explanations, Spaceman Spiff is my favorite strip.

I wish that had worked for my emergency landings when I was daydreaming in school….

Spaceman Spiff, the builder of character! Take that dad!

He has his moments. Best not the let the teacher know you were spacing out… again!

I just love how Calvin got this problem right and not even solving it using the countdown in his imagination from the spaceships dive!

The wrong answer somehow becomes the right.

Don Knotts in “The Reluctant Astronaut”.

That was a miraculous landing!

Once in a while, the stars and planets align, and Calvin gives the correct answer in class.

Making learning fun!!!!!

Blind………..Squirrel……….Nut.

Someday I hope to be as great as Spaceman Spiff!

Classic pulp SF from the 1940’s.

Succeeding in spite of yourself.

This never gets old. Love Calvin’s day dreams.

This was a fun strip, but I like the similar one where he has to spell “disaster” better.

Frap rays and Freem drive. Amusing.

Now he’s going to get a ticker-tape parade!

Hey Calvin, give me a call. My freem drive is a mess…

I was extremely bored in school. I would do assignments a week in advance. That gave me time to read in class. Teachers would try to “catch me out” with surprise questions, but that never worked. I was hard on educator blood pressure. :)

I wonder how many people know that making a “3-point landing” refers to the tricky skill of landing a tail-wheel airplane in a way that all three wheels touch (and hopefully stay on) the ground at the same time. Made many of them while I was still flying, and some were even fairly good!

I love how the shape of Spaceman Spiff’s eye protector lenses change with every panel they are visible. In every strip. And of course the rest to it. Hard to believe this I over 30 years old. Sad that very little has come to approach its brilliance.

I do not remember any of my teachers at Calvin’s age, I remember the nuns that ran the school though especially Mother Principal and her ruler… Smeagol why are you not in class? Did you sneak out? Hold out your hand, Whack, go back to your classroom lol

Yeah, it’s a high premium alright! ;-)

Synchronicity lol

I’m pretty sure this is a rerun