Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 21, 1990
Transcript:
Mom: Calvin, this is humiliating!! Calvin: I don't want to go! Put me down! On distant planet Zark, we find the empty red spacecraft of our hero, the bold Spaceman Spiff! Uh oh! Up ahead, the rocks are charred with death ray blasts! A violent struggle took place here! And only the tracks of a large, sinister alien leave the scene! What has happened to the earthling explorer?
Maybe she needs to ask why he finds school so necessary to avoid—the boredom, the bullying, the nasty food . . .