Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 10, 2010

Planning to move away I see.

Calvin, I’m not sure she’d be interested…

Back to Mars, then, is it, Calvin?

Just iron out the details later.

There’s not enough of THOSE people to warrant running away, Calvin.

Cross that bridge and you could be in Jersey!

But……………Spaceman Spiff could live off his cunning abilities………………..and a food replicator!

Hobbes, the voice of reason.

The brave and strong Spaceman Spiff doesn’t need his mom to come millions of miles to cook for him…. He can survive on Martians and other Space Delicacies

Doesn’t that mean Calvin is rotten too? Uh, never mind.

Still mad at your mom for making you go to school.

I think too, she is not interested!

I guess the hardware store declined his credit card.

Hi All…writing after a long time.

yes that will be quite a commute Hobbes!!

I am ready to offer travel services to mom. million miles=millions of dollars :)

Move to Alaska, Calvin, and live off the land. It’s the only clean and honest way to live.

To a six year old, a million miles is equivalent to walking one block and back two times.

Is this the build up Calvin saying that “People Are Scum”?!

Spoken like a true introvert. Be prepared, Calvin… you are not all that easy to live with, you know!

Maybe it’d be better to marry Susie Calvin?? ;-)

dang greywolf,, you had my hopes up,, for a second,,

I thought he didn’t like Mom’s cooking anyway.

I am sure Calvin can invent a “transporter” that mom can use to cover the million miles in a few nano seconds…

Maybe this is what Calvin had in mind when he bought those power tools for on Monday.

What I am wondering is why Calvin is outside in the snow without hat, gloves and boots or am I just being ‘parental’?

Come on… Spaceman Spiff doesn’t need to eat, that’s overrated.

Thats gross

All little boys think running away is a good idea but it does not last long that feeling of adventure

Sentence: “commuted” again, Mom.

Eating is a bad habit.

I’m trying to quit.

No No NOOOOO bird, when you quit eating, bad things happen to you, such as winding up looking like Lio when he got in the bath the other day. And you don’t get to put your skin back on afterwards.

When I was a little boy, I didn’t think running away was a good idea. But it was.

Hobbes, the voice of reason in the face of rash decisions.

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Reading this cartoon frequently brings back memories of my own childhood, not necessarily a good thing. However, this particular ‘toon reminds me of when a childhood friend of mine named Alex Nickolsky and myself decided to walk over to his parent’s house some five miles from where I lived. We were about 4 yrs old or so. We didn’t think much of it. My mother went ballistic, and for reasons I still don’t understand proceeded to beat the daylights out of my sister who had gone back into the house and told my mother what we were planning to do.

Hey thanks for the funny animation, mrsLSW

Nerd response: let’s see, a million miles. The Moon is a quarter of a million miles, but Venus is, hmm…93-78=15, at least 15 million miles away. So, he will need a space station, probably in solar orbit–how far is L2? If I remember it’s almost a million miles away, beyond us from the Sun. So he probably wants to live at L2.

probably thinking of Africa

he wants to move to the fartherst place away from the center of the galaxy… tatooine

Nah, it’s only a million miles…

I’d settle for 100 miles, and I can cook my own food.

Well, if he does move a million miles away, I bet he will take Hobbes! Of course, Hobbes can’t cook for him… soooo… hmm?

Can I go, too?

You people READ THIS STRIP, and had the Calvin dinner animation I posted for you removed? You’re seriously some vindictive people. That was an actual Calvin strip. If you were SO offended by it, why do you read this comic strip???

Ahh…mrslukeskywaker, I read it, had nothing to do with flagging it or getting it removed. I enjoyed it, actually. Don’t know why it vanished.

Maybe it took too much bandwidth, or offended someone, or broke the terms of use? I do know that in other cases, embedded links have vanished mysteriously and needed to be replaced.

Now I’m so curious. What did mrsluke’s post say??? Any chance you could re-run it? Dang!

“Twas a cute little animated clip. An animation of a strip I had seen before.

I’ll bet that someone here could direct us to it.

Don’t know what you have until it’s gone, Calvin