Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 16, 2024

Super art as always when space is the place. Really appreciate Cal in last panel.

Vicious little bugger, isn’t he?

❤️ it how Calvin can make something as droll as a math class fun. Dilly! Dilly!

Did we skip a fair chunk of this “Calvin Math” arc?

He should be a space cowboy and round up six planets and five planets.

Spiff certainly gets some unusual missions.

Courtesy Rocky Horror Picture Show, ‘Science Fiction- Double Feature’:

But when worlds collide

Said George Pal to his bride

I’m gonna give you some terrible thrills

Easy – just count all the fingers and thumbs and then add another thumb!

Math and imagination….partners in crime!!!!!

Crashing 2 planets together sounds more like division

As my beloved old grandma would have said, “That child ain’t right.”

THIS is Ceti Alpha V!

To think I use to count on my finger and get the wrong answer.

I’d like to know if he figures it out. I have the same problem.

11 Calvin 5+5=10.. easy now just add one to it. He needs some help at home.

I’d to know Calvin’s secret to getting that ‘wind-swept hair’ look while sitting at his deck, inside a classroom.

This is System Planet 6! System Planet 7 exploded 6 months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet and everything was laid waste. Spaceman Spiff never bothered to check on our progress.

With apologies to Khan Noonien Singh

Creating Planet Eleventeen!

With Calvin’s imagination so active merely sitting at a desk, I’m wondering if it’s going to be launched into another dimension when he learns to drive a car??

And crash in Ocean’s Eleven…!

OK, Calvin – time to dial this up to ELEVEN!

What is Calvin going to do when it comes to multiplication?

I thought he and Susie made a bet before this.

Psst, Calvin? Do you have any idea why your grades are abysmal? Here’s a small hint… Spiff!

11 Calvin.

Count on you fingers genius!

It frankly mystifies me that, over and over, Calvin seems to be baffled by the simplest possible arithmetic (x + y = ?) Doesn’t the boy have fingers, for crying out loud?

Planet 11

They skipped the middle part of the story arc. The Dad attempts to teach Calvin basic arithmetic using coins, and Calvin soon catches on. The next day at school, when Miss Wormwood gives the class a math quiz, Calvin is sure he’ll ace it and bets Susie 25 cents he gets a higher grade.

As a kid, I was not too fond of arithmetic, so I created a story where the odd numbers were at war with the even numbers. Whichever way the answer ended up would determine the victor of the battle.