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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yukoner about 14 years ago
Planning to move away I see.
margueritem about 14 years ago
Calvin, I’m not sure she’d be interested…
ZetaRomeo about 14 years ago
Back to Mars, then, is it, Calvin?
cleokaya about 14 years ago
Just iron out the details later.
COWBOY7 about 14 years ago
There’s not enough of THOSE people to warrant running away, Calvin.
Pacejv about 14 years ago
Cross that bridge and you could be in Jersey!
MontanaLady about 14 years ago
But……………Spaceman Spiff could live off his cunning abilities………………..and a food replicator!
carmy about 14 years ago
Hobbes, the voice of reason.
pineapplehoney about 14 years ago
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
ejcapulet about 14 years ago
Doesn’t that mean Calvin is rotten too? Uh, never mind.
Deanna175 about 14 years ago
Still mad at your mom for making you go to school.
rentier about 14 years ago
I think too, she is not interested!
alviebird about 14 years ago
I guess the hardware store declined his credit card.
bigCandHfan about 14 years ago
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 :)
jrbj about 14 years ago
Move to Alaska, Calvin, and live off the land. It’s the only clean and honest way to live.
lazygrazer about 14 years ago
To a six year old, a million miles is equivalent to walking one block and back two times.
APPLESCRUFF about 14 years ago
Is this the build up Calvin saying that “People Are Scum”?!
agpeter about 14 years ago
Spoken like a true introvert. Be prepared, Calvin… you are not all that easy to live with, you know!
Herocoder about 14 years ago
Maybe it’d be better to marry Susie Calvin?? ;-)
keltii about 14 years ago
dang greywolf,, you had my hopes up,, for a second,,
lightenup Premium Member about 14 years ago
I thought he didn’t like Mom’s cooking anyway.
yakkafoobmog about 14 years ago
I am sure Calvin can invent a “transporter” that mom can use to cover the million miles in a few nano seconds…
Gumshoe about 14 years ago
Maybe this is what Calvin had in mind when he bought those power tools for on Monday.
IndyMan about 14 years ago
What I am wondering is why Calvin is outside in the snow without hat, gloves and boots or am I just being ‘parental’?
AJCA about 14 years ago
Come on… Spaceman Spiff doesn’t need to eat, that’s overrated.
ratlum about 14 years ago
Thats gross
ratlum about 14 years ago
All little boys think running away is a good idea but it does not last long that feeling of adventure
freeholder1 about 14 years ago
Sentence: “commuted” again, Mom.
alviebird about 14 years ago
Eating is a bad habit.
I’m trying to quit.
MisngNOLA about 14 years ago
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.
ocean17 about 14 years ago
When I was a little boy, I didn’t think running away was a good idea. But it was.
musicnut1986 about 14 years ago
Hobbes, the voice of reason in the face of rash decisions.
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khpage about 14 years ago
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.
lazygrazer about 14 years ago
Hey thanks for the funny animation, mrsLSW
bmonk about 14 years ago
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.
mottih about 14 years ago
probably thinking of Africa
dadallen85 about 14 years ago
he wants to move to the fartherst place away from the center of the galaxy… tatooine
bmonk about 14 years ago
Nah, it’s only a million miles…
Ooops! Premium Member about 14 years ago
I’d settle for 100 miles, and I can cook my own food.
Fogger_man about 14 years ago
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?
alviebird about 14 years ago
Can I go, too?
mrslukeskywalker about 14 years ago
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???
bmonk about 14 years ago
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.
littledutchboy about 14 years ago
Now I’m so curious. What did mrsluke’s post say??? Any chance you could re-run it? Dang!
alviebird about 14 years ago
“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.
comixmaster1000 about 13 years ago
Don’t know what you have until it’s gone, Calvin