Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 16, 2023

Spiff sounds like one of those who travels to another country and refers to the natives as foreigners.

If I were Spiff, I’d go somewhere really cold. That’s just me of course. Love the cold, what can I say?

I always loved how the colors on that alien correspond to his mom’s clothes. Its head is the color of her hat, its body her coat, and its legs her pants.

Poor Calvin

This reminds me of the other strip where Spiff crashed on an extremely hot planet. Then an alien comes up and says You look thirsty, so I made you a lemonade and tuna sandwich.

Every Spaceman Spiff needs a Spacemom Spiff.

Amazing how much Mom and the space alien look alike, LOL!!

If you want a better planet, I hear Risa is nice all year round

wow i just love spaceman spiff toons

No matter how far Spaceman Spiff travels, aliens are bound to be there to offer an opinion.

Where’s Hobbes?

" Arrogant American ! "

Gee, thanks, mom….for ruining my train of fantasy. (I’m just kidding…)

You know you’re in trouble when Mom says “Don’t give me that look!”

When we have a nice beach day , I just sit in the shade in the backyard and fire up the wayback machine. I can call up a ton of great memories to enjoy. Give it a try.

Waiting for more rain here on the Southcoast of Mass.

We sure had some interesting weather lately.

Where does Watterson get those names?

If he ever went to the UK he’d brag about how we won the revolutionary war.

If I were “Mom”, I would object to the rendition of my legs.

looking back at other Spiff episodes, he needs to get a better spaceship repair man

Well…, crap. Nothing like Mom taking the drama out of your performance to wreck a perfectly good heroic adventure. Captain Kirks Mom doesn’t bring him a new shirt and check his underwear.

This is how I’m going to feel by the end of the day. Groan

Strips like these were always my favorites.

Spiff, behave yourself.

LOL.. ‘Moms’ are friendly aliens in Spiff’s world.

Unfortunately, Spiff never finds a temperate planet. They’re all deserts.

Watterson is such a genius. i wish he would write again.

I know how he feels, I’m from Queensland, Australia, living now in Ireland.

Far, far from my family…

Love when Watterson messed with the Sunday strip layout and made it impossible for newspapers to remove the top row of the usual 3 row layout.

Aren’t we are all looking for that?

Love the Spaceman Spiff side stories !

Now I want to change my handle to ‘Solitary Zokk’.

Zokk is certainly not Zok the Laser ray dragon from the Herculoids.

It’s funny that in Science Fiction, planets are each usually attributed just one climate aspect. Desert planet, ice planet, temperate planet. Obviously it all depends on axis tilt, spin, and distance from their star, but I’d expect to see a range of climates on any single planet, just as we do on Earth.