Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 24, 2021

Oh goody! Calvin’s report is on a sci-fi book!

At certain times…..Calvin is hard of hearing.

Calvin looks very happy despite being in school.

:)

Fire away, lad. Fire away!

Spiff prepares to terminate the enemy.

I see another trip to the principal’s office coming shortly.

To late, he’s already gone…. You should have booked an appointment…..

Looks like Miz Wormwood’s plan for the day is get the unpleasantness over and then just happy thoughts.

I like Calvin’s short legs and big feet.

What Spaceman Spiff doesn’t realise is that the death ray blaster is useless against this particular alien.

for some reason, now I’m thinking “Calvin and the Chipmunks”…

Is that a pointer or a riding crop Miss Wormwood is holding? At the end of first grade a student in the top 10% has a reading vocabulary of 340 words, 50%— 250 words.

I so wanted to do this when I was a kid in school. Sigh…

Sometimes the guy defending himself is the bad guy.

there are zoom/teams meetings that go like that for me.

I wonder if this was the first Spaceman Spiff strip? It just recently restarted, and this is the first Spaceman Spiff I’ve seen.

Maybe he really does need to be on meds.

Spaceman Spiff soils his underwear and runs away screaming like a little girl.

Calvin is obviously spaced out.

I would have developed writing skills much earlier if we had been assigned a few science fiction exercises. Now if I could find some good Spanish science fiction, I could be bilingual.

Annnndd we’re off on another adventure!

Calvin could “write” a book; forget about a book report!

Sorry Ms. Wormwood but Calvin has gone to his happy place.

He will return at a time TBD.

Run, Spaceman Spiff! She’s got a board with a nail in it!

Trip to the principal’s office is coming.

“coolly”

He looks frozen in time.

Look how serene he looks…why would you interrupt that and risk being vaporized by a death ray blaster?

For the second time, I recommend looking up “Calvin and Hobbes grown up” on Google and reading the Spaceman Spiff adventure that a grown-up Calvin shares with his daughter Bacon – his child by Susie of course.

Who the heck is “Spiff Cooly”?

First Ralph Phillips-style iteration?

Calvin will report on the inner workings of his mind and how it prevented him from doing the assigned book work.

I’m getting baldi’s basics vibes from the ruler