Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 20, 2022

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 3 years ago

    Let’s go exploring…

    Calvin’s mantra

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    Charles Barr Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    The spaceman is about to be grounded.

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    Sugar Bombs 95  almost 3 years ago

    This strip was featured in The Days are Just Packed, which was the first C&H collection we ever owned when I was a kid.

    Fun fact: before I truly payed attention to the comic, I thought Miss Wormwood was Calvin’s grandmother, and Susie was Calvin’s sister.

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    codycab  almost 3 years ago

    Spiffs exploration is about to come to an abrupt halt.

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    marilynnbyerly  almost 3 years ago

    Ah, the good old days when you went to neighborhood schools.

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    josh_bisbee  almost 3 years ago

    I forsee a mother ship coming to blast our fearless hero.

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    C  almost 3 years ago

    He’s a grounded kid

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    Robin Harwood  almost 3 years ago

    I’m beginning to have doubts about the prospect of an academic career for Calvin.

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    flagmichael  almost 3 years ago

    I should have used this technique at some of the pointless meetings at work.

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    eastern.woods.metal  almost 3 years ago

    " Bloatoid captors "

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    Bilan  almost 3 years ago

    Spaceman Spiff should’ve known that Bloatoids always win in the end.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Remember the week-long adventure when he got sent to the blackboard, imagined Spaceman Spiff about to be sacrificed to the alien god Nollij, and pulled out a hidden ray gun (actually a rubber band)?

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    dcdete.  almost 3 years ago

    So the teacher is subtracting 5 from 4? Does the answer appear to be 25, or is that just her finger and chalk and the answer is 2?

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    Bullet Bronson Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Miss Wormwood really deserves combat pay.

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    bigcatbusiness  almost 3 years ago

    Too bad Calvin doesn’t use that imagination for something actually useful. Most kids simply fall asleep.

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    in.amongst  almost 3 years ago

    tut tut mum – whatabouttery does not work.

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    Cpeckbourlioux  almost 3 years ago

    Space: the final frontier. Spaceman Spiff, his mission: to roam the heavens in man’s noble quest to investigate the wierdness of the universe! Ah, yes, as long as these wonderful comics repeat and replay, our childhoods will be remembered.

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    BigDaveGlass  almost 3 years ago

    Always beware the vacant smile in panel one……..

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    Susan00100  almost 3 years ago

    What is the mandatory retirement age for boring teachers who cannot (or will not) spur on a unique child’s creative imagination??

    I wonder if Watterson’s teachers were like Ms. Wormwood.

    I guess I’m reliving my own school days—dull as dirt!!

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    Katsuro Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    I like how this page parodies the narration of old adventure comics by having the hero himself narrate as things go on. :) I didn’t catch that subtle parody when I was a kid.

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    Dewey Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Why does Calvin have to take the bus to school but lives close enough to run home?

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    derdave969  almost 3 years ago

    Love the depictions of Miss Wormwood in Spiff’s imagination. I wonder if they were the inspiration for Jabba the Hutt?

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    Calvinist1966  almost 3 years ago

    I’m currently watching reruns of The Prisoner and they have reminded me of a time about two years ago when I compared a Calvin and Hobbes story arc to The Prisoner.

    Calvin had just invented his duplicator out of a cardboard box and created a duplicate of himself. While he was being told off by Mom for something his duplicate had done, the duplicate was creating copies of himself so that there were five copies of Calvin. “Meet your duplicates – numbers two to six.”

    I quoted from the opening titles of The Prisoner:

    “Who are you?”

    “The new Number Two.”

    “Who is Number One?”

    “You are Number Six”

    Someone replied that the line can be interpreted as “You are, Number Six” and someone else told me that a remake of The Prisoner had been made but quickly cancelled. I replied that some episodes of the original series had also been cancelled. I have been reading about the original series again and have seen that there were originally going to be two seasons of thirteen episodes but the second season was cancelled while the first season was still being produced and four of the planned episodes were added to the first season to make one season of seventeen episodes.

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  almost 3 years ago

    RUN

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    Kilrwat Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    At least he wasn’t in his underwear!

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    uniquename  almost 3 years ago

    Calvin definitely keeps the class awake! Mrs. Wormwood should thank him for that.

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    Who, me?  almost 3 years ago

    If the other kids had any imagination they would have taken off after Calvin.

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    jessegooddoggy  almost 3 years ago

    Hard to top the Spaceman Spiff stories.

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    wconerly28  almost 3 years ago

    Ah, the dream of every kid sitting in a boring class, looking outside, as summer approaches.

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    Watchdog  almost 3 years ago

    The hero of most 6-10-year-old boys.

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    sundogusa  almost 3 years ago

    I think someone escaped from class back in 1st grade after bathroom break. He was back in class the next day.

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    Baucuva  almost 3 years ago

    Love it!

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    Jhony-Yermo  almost 3 years ago

    “. . . Ol’ buddy, Let’s go exploring . . . " Same words as the very last C&H strip. :-(

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    theincrediblebulk  almost 3 years ago

    Calvin must live in a strange location. He takes the bus to school but lives close enough to the school to be able to get home when he runs away. I’m guessing the school is across a couple farmers fields and he is only a bus rider because of where the streets are instead of walking as the crow flies across the fields as that wasn’t allowed as a safe route to get to school.

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    dflak  almost 3 years ago

    I think Watterson had a lot of fun writing the dialog (or monolog) for Spaceman Spiff.

    He does a good job with the “technobabble” too.

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    klapre  almost 3 years ago

    I just love the thought that goes into the “dialog”. I can just imagine Bill noodling around “in a split second”, nope that’s not it. “in a fraction…” nope. “in a moment” nope. ‘In a micromoment" Bingo. That’s it. I’ve always been in awe of the creative process.

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    Squoop  almost 3 years ago

    I’m with Calvin on this. School should be limited to a few hours per day, in the morning. Kids shouldn’t have to spend all day sitting indoors. Nor should adults for that matter! I clearly remember staring longingly out the windows as the teacher droned on. I resent having been deprived of nature, fresh air and more creative pursuits all those years while instead sitting in an ugly brick building where I was under authoritarian rule forced to focus on how to make enough money so someday I could buy a bunch of worthless junk. Luckily, doodling was allowed.

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    Steverino Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Calvin’s gonna get spaced out.

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    mourdac Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    Alas, the evil Gznarak guards were sent out in force, re-captured Spiff after a wild pursuit, and dragged him back to the intergalactic prison.

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    RussellCastine  almost 3 years ago

    Our Fearless Hero is about to get grounded for ditching class, I would think.

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    rshive  almost 3 years ago

    Subject to the situation, maybe we all have a little Spaceman Spiff in us.

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    That kid needs some serious meds

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    formathe  almost 3 years ago

    I never slipped out of school but, I recall living on base (CFB North Bay) and we had a cold war attack exercise. I did not make it home because I had to walk through a park to get there and the swings called to me. within 10 minutes an SP (Station police) vehicle rolled up and the Sergeant got out and sauntered over to the swings and asked why I was there. My folks tell the story because I do not recall my reply but Sergeant Naismith’s report said “The swings were more fun than spending an hour in the basement”. You see just 10 miles away was a US BOMARC base with missiles and alleged nuke tips and IF the Russians were attacking, the base would be cinders according to my dad who was a realist. Waiting to die on the swings or under a table in the basement? Easy call. I was 9.

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    KEA  almost 3 years ago

    I used to imagine doing that… of course I was the teacher, but…

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    mistercatworks  almost 3 years ago

    It’s good to have a waiting spacecraft, always in standby mode. :)

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    mindjob  almost 3 years ago

    Mom is shocked like this is the first time Calvin has run off. But it won’t be the last.

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    SweetSinger  almost 3 years ago

    The endless frontiers begin at home…

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    AndrewSihler  almost 3 years ago

    I’ve said it before but it’s worth saying again: it’s obvious that Mr Watterson loves to draw. And with fabulous effect.

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    wiley207  almost 3 years ago

    It’s kind of like the May 21-26, 1990 “Calvin ditches school” story arc condensed into the new Sunday strip format! Except at least Calvin has a little fun with Hobbes before he’s eventually caught.

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    donwestonmysteries  almost 3 years ago

    How can his mother be surprised by anything Calvin does? I would expect a practiced eyeroll by now.

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    yangeldf  almost 3 years ago

    Calvin must live REALLY close to his school if he can run home by the time they call his parents

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    Teto85 Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    These are the trips of Spaceman Spiff. His mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before! With thanks and apologies to Gene Roddenberry.

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    cmxx  almost 3 years ago

    “Bloatoid captors”! That is hysterically perfect!

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    Fuzzy Kombu  almost 3 years ago

    So if we subtract five gross bugs from the turbo hyper-thrust drive…

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 3 years ago

    Our fearful antihero really needs to learn the concept of stealth.

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    txmystic  almost 3 years ago

    the Sunday comics after his sabbatical were breathtaking…

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    GreggW Premium Member almost 3 years ago

    This is to my knowledge the first time that Hobbes has appeared in sentient form along with a human being other than Calvin. So that means that Hobbes is a magical being and not a figment of Calvin’s highly over-active imagination? Or maybe Watterson slipped up on that installment.

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    Lightpainter  almost 3 years ago

    Looks like Calvin literally dissociates from mild manner Calvin in panel one to warped, mischievous Calvin in panel two. What precipitated the change? Hormones in the air, maybe?

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    79nysv  almost 3 years ago

    I di that once. It did not end well for me. I hated school, but loved College.

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    Dr_Fogg  almost 3 years ago

    Those were the day!

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    globalenterprize1990  almost 3 years ago

    The first Calvin and Hobbes I saw was when dad had to leave Calvin in the car to mail a letter. Calvin and Hobbes hide under a blanket and pretend to run away. Dad hears the giggling and says his problems are over. He will drive home and tell the wife he lost the boy. Surprise! A HA! Don’t say another. Take me home!! Wait until mom hears about this!"

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    MattDingleberry  almost 3 years ago

    “Bloatoid” :)

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