It occurs to me, from all the survival scenarios Spiff gets into, and how many issues with Time Travel, Duplicators, Transmogrifiers, his superhero battles, etc. that he has faced, gotten out of, including the Snow Goon plague…. he’s quite a resilient and imaginative soul.
I think in later life, he might end up a creative of some sort and be constantly finding ways to start new lines of business, to try new opportunities, and that might lead to some success with all that resilience.
All he’d really need to add would be a bit more social graces and a bit of wisdom (and he’s only 6 now so there’s another 10+ years to get at least a wee bit of those).
Maybe it’s me, but I want to assume there’s a post C&H Calvin that found a place, however unconventional (Waterson is) and that he’s found a gal that finds his imagination a positive and he’s had a chance to have his own kids (he’ll have two so as to not have the isolation he may remember when he was younger…) and to find ways in the more modern world to find a successful future using his creativity and resilience.
And I’ll bet the kids would have an orange tabby cat called Hobbes. Of course, he won’t let on, but Hobbes will still be his bosom buddy.
It’d be a kind of meta irony if he ended up being a web comic author and SF&F writer. Maybe his partner will be a good editor and her maiden name might be Derkins (who is possibly a doctor or scientist or teacher/professor who helps keep household finances going through Calvin’s rollercoaster ventures).
I used to love it, when I seen a Spiff Sunday strip, I’d put my hand over the last panel and try to figure out what Spiff’s adventure had to do with Cal’s real life. Sadly, I know them all by heart now
My favorite C&H Sunday theme – Spaceman Spiff on an unexplored planet and threatened by hideous aliens. When this happens, Watterson takes me back to my earliest years, imagination on fire with adventures and, with my best friends, defeating a hostile alien invasion. To create this kind of strip, I think Watterson never really grew up, and that’s a good thing.
Spiff crashes his spacecraft more often than the Robinson family on ‘Lost In Space’. Behind the scenes, the cast of Lost In Space referred to Major Don West as ‘Crash West’.
BE THIS GUY almost 4 years ago
Go inside, Mom and Dad. He will come home when he gets hungry.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 4 years ago
I wonder where Calvin’s family lives if there is a such distance with the neighbors .
rentier almost 4 years ago
That’s a fine hiding place for Calvin!!
Bilan almost 4 years ago
Spaceman Spiff is incredibly smart. Maybe he should be the one taking the math tests.
rklynch almost 4 years ago
Spaceman Spiff is always a good read. Kind of makes me wish that Bill Watterson would have done a spin off of it in some form back in the day….
nosirrom almost 4 years ago
Are they sure they want to find him?
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 4 years ago
If Spiff is so incredible, why does he crash so often? Maybe he should spend a little time on maintenance.
Ninette almost 4 years ago
Calvin basks in the pageant of confirmation, victory.. glory.
meg_grif almost 4 years ago
I hate it when I get zorched by a zarch.
kaladorn almost 4 years ago
It occurs to me, from all the survival scenarios Spiff gets into, and how many issues with Time Travel, Duplicators, Transmogrifiers, his superhero battles, etc. that he has faced, gotten out of, including the Snow Goon plague…. he’s quite a resilient and imaginative soul.
I think in later life, he might end up a creative of some sort and be constantly finding ways to start new lines of business, to try new opportunities, and that might lead to some success with all that resilience.
All he’d really need to add would be a bit more social graces and a bit of wisdom (and he’s only 6 now so there’s another 10+ years to get at least a wee bit of those).
Maybe it’s me, but I want to assume there’s a post C&H Calvin that found a place, however unconventional (Waterson is) and that he’s found a gal that finds his imagination a positive and he’s had a chance to have his own kids (he’ll have two so as to not have the isolation he may remember when he was younger…) and to find ways in the more modern world to find a successful future using his creativity and resilience.
And I’ll bet the kids would have an orange tabby cat called Hobbes. Of course, he won’t let on, but Hobbes will still be his bosom buddy.
It’d be a kind of meta irony if he ended up being a web comic author and SF&F writer. Maybe his partner will be a good editor and her maiden name might be Derkins (who is possibly a doctor or scientist or teacher/professor who helps keep household finances going through Calvin’s rollercoaster ventures).
Maybe I just want 2021 to be less 2020 so far.
BigDaveGlass almost 4 years ago
Build a snow goon, that’ll get him in…
Red33410 almost 4 years ago
An anagram of “Plootarg” is “Go Patrol.”
scotta775 almost 4 years ago
There still isn’t another comic strip that can even come close to Calvin and Hobbes.
colddonkey almost 4 years ago
Kids like that make me glad I didn’t have any.
PaulAbbott2 almost 4 years ago
I used to love it, when I seen a Spiff Sunday strip, I’d put my hand over the last panel and try to figure out what Spiff’s adventure had to do with Cal’s real life. Sadly, I know them all by heart now
TheCoosBayBachelor almost 4 years ago
My favorite C&H Sunday theme – Spaceman Spiff on an unexplored planet and threatened by hideous aliens. When this happens, Watterson takes me back to my earliest years, imagination on fire with adventures and, with my best friends, defeating a hostile alien invasion. To create this kind of strip, I think Watterson never really grew up, and that’s a good thing.
JudyHendrickson almost 4 years ago
Why bother to find him!!! With any luck you’ll lose him for good!!
uniquename almost 4 years ago
“…careens out of control…” Sounds like a typical day for Calvin.
Redd Panda almost 4 years ago
Calvin’s arboreal? Who knew?
Watchdog almost 4 years ago
Hope that escape airplane not the new F-35 under construction for 20 years now at 8 X contract cost.
Super Fly almost 4 years ago
In the next thrilling episode: Spaceman Spiff meets Rick and Morty!
Rev Phnk Ey almost 4 years ago
Hollywood (or wherever they make movies now) could really use those Zarches. Watterson was/is an incredible artist.
tripwire45 almost 4 years ago
He’ll go inside when he gets cold.
rshive almost 4 years ago
Spiff may be crafty. But hunger will get to him sooner or later.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Some times our lost ones are not really lost, their hiding. Keep that in mind and buy a drone.
Obi-Haiv almost 4 years ago
I wonder how much Xanax and Zoloft Calvin’s parents took?
Numbnumb almost 4 years ago
When he is frozen to the bone then he will (can?) come in.
Otis Rufus Driftwood almost 4 years ago
We might ask where the Calvin who is this clever is at school. Less incentive perhaps?
KEA almost 4 years ago
Who needs video games when one has imagination?
T577 Brown Bunny/Vegetable Patch 62 almost 4 years ago
Someone please deploy Spacewoman Stiff Arm to control this seemingly disorderly conduct situation.
willie_mctell almost 4 years ago
“Had a heel in front and a heel behind…”
Brent Rosenthal Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Maybe Calvin would benefit from Ritalin.
flagmichael almost 4 years ago
A tangent for sure: does anybody know where the verb “zorch” came from? It sure has been around a while.
vacman almost 4 years ago
This just goes to show you how smart and clever Calvin actually is.
Troglodyte almost 4 years ago
“Reverse” psychology at work! :D
Walter Parmantie Premium Member almost 4 years ago
mnd5241dmn almost 4 years ago
Now how did Calvin get in the tree?
VickiP123 almost 4 years ago
if he spent 1/4 of the amount of time doing his school work that he does with this imagination..lol!!!
DCBakerEsq almost 4 years ago
Seems like the perfect opportunity to ditch the little brat.
AndrewSihler almost 4 years ago
It’s pretty amazing, Mr Watterson loves to draw, he simply loves it. And so much the better for us.
swanridge almost 4 years ago
Hideous?? I always thought that Calvin’s mom had that type of timeless beauty.
txmystic almost 4 years ago
“Zorched by Zarches”…for me, that’s Tuesdays
gopogogo Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Walking backwards… have to remember that one.
WCraft Premium Member almost 4 years ago
So…no Hobbes when he is Spaceman Biff? Might’ve come in handy fighting the aliens!
spaced man spliff almost 4 years ago
“Hey Zarchie”
“Yeah, Zmeathead?”
ThePersonOnGoComics almost 4 years ago
Be one with the snow
Godzilla The King of the Monsters over 3 years ago
Spaceman Spiff then flies to Venus, thus coming soon: Spaceman Spiff vs. King Ghidorah