Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 17, 2021

Go inside, Mom and Dad. He will come home when he gets hungry.

I wonder where Calvin’s family lives if there is a such distance with the neighbors .

That’s a fine hiding place for Calvin!!

Spaceman Spiff is incredibly smart. Maybe he should be the one taking the math tests.

Spaceman Spiff is always a good read. Kind of makes me wish that Bill Watterson would have done a spin off of it in some form back in the day….

Are they sure they want to find him?

If Spiff is so incredible, why does he crash so often? Maybe he should spend a little time on maintenance.

Calvin basks in the pageant of confirmation, victory.. glory.

I hate it when I get zorched by a zarch.

It occurs to me, from all the survival scenarios Spiff gets into, and how many issues with Time Travel, Duplicators, Transmogrifiers, his superhero battles, etc. that he has faced, gotten out of, including the Snow Goon plague…. he’s quite a resilient and imaginative soul.

I think in later life, he might end up a creative of some sort and be constantly finding ways to start new lines of business, to try new opportunities, and that might lead to some success with all that resilience.

All he’d really need to add would be a bit more social graces and a bit of wisdom (and he’s only 6 now so there’s another 10+ years to get at least a wee bit of those).

Maybe it’s me, but I want to assume there’s a post C&H Calvin that found a place, however unconventional (Waterson is) and that he’s found a gal that finds his imagination a positive and he’s had a chance to have his own kids (he’ll have two so as to not have the isolation he may remember when he was younger…) and to find ways in the more modern world to find a successful future using his creativity and resilience.

And I’ll bet the kids would have an orange tabby cat called Hobbes. Of course, he won’t let on, but Hobbes will still be his bosom buddy.

It’d be a kind of meta irony if he ended up being a web comic author and SF&F writer. Maybe his partner will be a good editor and her maiden name might be Derkins (who is possibly a doctor or scientist or teacher/professor who helps keep household finances going through Calvin’s rollercoaster ventures).

Maybe I just want 2021 to be less 2020 so far.

Build a snow goon, that’ll get him in…

An anagram of “Plootarg” is “Go Patrol.”

There still isn’t another comic strip that can even come close to Calvin and Hobbes.

Kids like that make me glad I didn’t have any.

I used to love it, when I seen a Spiff Sunday strip, I’d put my hand over the last panel and try to figure out what Spiff’s adventure had to do with Cal’s real life. Sadly, I know them all by heart now

My favorite C&H Sunday theme – Spaceman Spiff on an unexplored planet and threatened by hideous aliens. When this happens, Watterson takes me back to my earliest years, imagination on fire with adventures and, with my best friends, defeating a hostile alien invasion. To create this kind of strip, I think Watterson never really grew up, and that’s a good thing.

Why bother to find him!!! With any luck you’ll lose him for good!!

“…careens out of control…” Sounds like a typical day for Calvin.

Calvin’s arboreal? Who knew?

Hope that escape airplane not the new F-35 under construction for 20 years now at 8 X contract cost.

In the next thrilling episode: Spaceman Spiff meets Rick and Morty!

Hollywood (or wherever they make movies now) could really use those Zarches. Watterson was/is an incredible artist.

He’ll go inside when he gets cold.

Spiff may be crafty. But hunger will get to him sooner or later.

Some times our lost ones are not really lost, their hiding. Keep that in mind and buy a drone.

I wonder how much Xanax and Zoloft Calvin’s parents took?

When he is frozen to the bone then he will (can?) come in.

We might ask where the Calvin who is this clever is at school. Less incentive perhaps?

Who needs video games when one has imagination?

Someone please deploy Spacewoman Stiff Arm to control this seemingly disorderly conduct situation.

“Had a heel in front and a heel behind…”

Maybe Calvin would benefit from Ritalin.

A tangent for sure: does anybody know where the verb “zorch” came from? It sure has been around a while.

This just goes to show you how smart and clever Calvin actually is.

“Reverse” psychology at work! :D

Spiff crashes his spacecraft more often than the Robinson family on ‘Lost In Space’. Behind the scenes, the cast of Lost In Space referred to Major Don West as ‘Crash West’.

Now how did Calvin get in the tree?

if he spent 1/4 of the amount of time doing his school work that he does with this imagination..lol!!!

Seems like the perfect opportunity to ditch the little brat.

It’s pretty amazing, Mr Watterson loves to draw, he simply loves it. And so much the better for us.

Hideous?? I always thought that Calvin’s mom had that type of timeless beauty.

“Zorched by Zarches”…for me, that’s Tuesdays

Walking backwards… have to remember that one.

So…no Hobbes when he is Spaceman Biff? Might’ve come in handy fighting the aliens!

“Hey Zarchie”

“Yeah, Zmeathead?”

Be one with the snow

Spaceman Spiff then flies to Venus, thus coming soon: Spaceman Spiff vs. King Ghidorah