Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 20, 2010

If only…

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf!

Good morning to you, irritated Iris, may your day be made better by the humor you find here!

YAY STUPENDOUS MAN!!!!

Stupendous!

Good Morning, Marg, Mike, IRA and everyone else!

Pity it doesn’t really work that way, Stupendous Man.

Rather than just pushing the earth backwards, you actually needed to break the time-barrier by flying faster than light in a clockwise orbit, that is, in an orbit going against the direction of the earth’s rotation. That’s how Superman always did it – and it really DID send him back in time when he did!

To dream the Impossible Dream……………….

I wonder what would happen if Stupendous Man met Superlative Girl (late of 9 Chickweed Lane)?

With Calvin’s luck, Superlative Girl would pinch-hit for Rosalyn as his babysitter.

It looks like “Trouble in River City” for Stupendous Man. You’re in a lot of ‘trowel’, Calvin! I know it’s an awful pun, especially if you don’t ‘dig’ plays on words. I’d better throw in the ‘trowel’, and go to ‘bed’.

It’s always Saturday for Stupendus Man!

GM, Mike, Marg, Grog & All!

I think I’ll try that. I just need to find my cape.

Death to Spammers

Prince of excuses

I have to agree with LEGALEAGLE. I spent a childhood (only a couple of years ago) with Superman comics and he flew around in circles (much like a woman I know) to make time go backward. If you forget most of the physics you learned in latter years, this makes sense (or if you enjoyed the 60s). If I could turn back the hands of time, SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED might wake up still talking to me.

Don’t worry, be happy!

“Stupendous Man”, defender of liberty & avocate of freedom!” That would come in handy to get a three day weekend more often. My granddaughter puts on her Supergirl hat and gloves and comes to the rescue around here. I like it when Supergirl comes to help on laundry day so we can get to play outside faster!

OH thank you Stupendous Man… I will use this extra weekend with joy.

Great comic and great imagination o king of comics!

Stupendous Man - Defender of freedom, Advocate of liberty again saves Calvin from evil maths problems.

Bill Watterson ur the best !!!

“I’d give all my tomorrows for one single yesterday…”

Chris Kristofferson

Puddleglum2,

Is there a PUN jar here, or should you use the one at the Comfy Couch?

if it was that easy to reverse time we would all call stupendous man.

Stupendous Man seems to have been active in Bible times. In Joshua 10:13, the earth stops turning for a day. In Isaiah 38:8, the earth turns backward 10 degrees (2/3 hour) on the sundial.

Now that is truly stupendous!

Aw, I thought I would get to flag ‘em first.

Does anyone know what’s Calvin’s surname?

I love Calvin’s expression in the last panel.

Surname is Stupendous Man!

Calvin’s last name is Mitchell. His father’s name is Henry and his mother’s name is Rose.

… but then the fathers will have to wait another day for their special day.

The above is for all dads though Calvin doesn’t fit the mode here. All dads enjoy.

W6BXQ, John, My kids were all too old for The Big Comfy Couch, so I didn’t even know about that show. I know about Fibber McGee and Molly, but not Loonette and Molly, so I’d be more likely to get puns from Fibber McGee’s closet. It might be like trying to find a needle in a haystack, though, with all that closet clutter. I sometimes jar people with my puns, but I don’t actually use a PUN jar. I know that a door is not a door when it’s ajar. I take full responsibility for my puns; I just do it for the pun of it.

Mike Are you sure Dennis’ mom’s name is Rose?

dennis’ mom is alice

I’m with Calvin….turning back the rotation of the earth is way easier than trying to figure out what 9+3 is.

I think the spammers have to be flagged on each strip.

Puddleglum2,

I was referring to The Comfy Couch of Confusion which is a lot of people at the Pibgorn strip. There is a pun jar for those who make good or outrageous puns to go and put money in. It is virtual of course. All part of the fun.

Stupendous Man turns the clock back - so he has more time to do his homework? Your own act is going to be a hard one to follow, when Sunday night comes again and the homework still isn’t done!

Of course, it wouldn’t actually turn time back no matter how fast you spun the planet. But it would result in worldwide, cataclysmic earthquakes, as the earth’s crust adjusted to the changed forces when you interrupted, and then reversed, its spin.

Even if you were able to turn back time, the earth isn’t in the same location in space as it was a day ago. So you’d still be screwed. You’d have to move the earth in space as well as in time– something almost all time-travel scenarios ignore.

Stuart Gathman, That’s a timely comment, indeed! “To everything - turn, turn, turn There is a season - turn, turn, turn And a time for every purpose under heaven God had a nobler purpose (plan) in each instance than Stupendous Man had!

(continued) “Turn back the hands of time Roll back the sands of time - sung by Eddie Fisher

Mike Firesmith said: Calvin’s last name is Mitchell. His father’s name is Henry and his mother’s name is Rose.

I think you got Calvin mixed up with Dennis the Menace (whose mother’s name, by the way, is Alice).

According to Wikipedia, Calvin’s parents never had names (done this way on purpose by Bill Watterson) and one of the main reasons Uncle Max never appeared again after the one time was because he couldn’t refer to the parents by name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalvinandHobbes

W6BXQ, John, Thank you for the Comfy Couch of Confusion clarification. Consider the case concluded and closed. Calvin’s connection continues. Carry on!

And this explains how Gary Trudeau got the sun to set over the Cascades today!

He’s going to get a rude awakening tomorrow, in the form of parents and teachers.

Re: comments by “therONin” and “dsmo8”: Man what buzzkills! Maybe you guys/gals should try Mary Worth or something.

Homework on the weekend in first grade? I wouldn’t have done it either!

Wikipedia’s info isn’t always perfect, but in this case they got it right.

Since time travel, as far we know, only exists in fantasy worlds such as Superman and Calvin & Hobbes, let’s not waste too much time analyzing how it works and debating whether a given use of it is logical. Suffice it to say that Stupendous Man turns back time. Not only does he get a day’s reprieve from the homework, he can also spend the day playing with Saturday Calvin (who will disappear on Sunday when he becomes Stupendous Man and sets off to turn back time). Hopefully his mom won’t see more than one Calvin at a time, although if she did she’d probably attribute it to the strain of being Calvin’s mother. Interestingly, Watterson created Supendous Man as a comment on what he called the ‘essential silliness’ of superhero comics; they never impressed him much.

Didn’t Superman also have a time conduit to fly through, conveniently marked by year? Just a vague idea from a childhood spent, in part, like Hobbes, reading my brother’s comics…

Rose and Jimbo are parents to Pasquale on Rose is Rose.

But he’s back to square one again “tomorrow.”

You know, between the people useing the comment section for saying Hi to each otherr & the spammers,, it gets real anoying

I don’t think your spam is funny or polite, or anything but spam, Firesmith. You’re just another of a long line of lonely people with no life and nothing to do but hang out on a comics page all day and all night long. Wiseguy IS right, but he’s talking about you and your spam.

Mitchell! That’s hilarious. Are Calvin’s neighbors the Wilsons, and Susie is their Granddaughter, which the Wilsons never had?

Hilarious!

Hello! Hello! Hello! Good Morning! Hello! Duh!

Ok, seriously now.

I don’t object to saying hello, unnecessary as it is, but include it in your comics comment, instead of in separate postings. There’s no need to harass Bildi and I for pointing that out. You are being rude and taking up space with junk, and it needed to be said.

“Blidi and “me,” in this case. Not that I’m very good at grammar, either.

Wellllll, good eveini………,no good morni………., no, does this mean an extra day for baseball?

This strip reminds me of a movie of Superman!! he too rotates the earth in the other direction to get his girlfriend back alive!!

Supermans a piker compared to Calvins power

Ah, yes. The power of imagination.

pretty smart of u calvin.mint

Re: unnamed parents: Apparently no-one had a name in the Addams’ Family comic strip. (I wonder how they referred to or addressed the kids!) Addams had to come up with names for everyone when the TV show was created.

So, if they make a TV show based on Calvin and Hobbes, what should they name the parents? (A last name isn’t necessary; the family on According to Jim never had a last name.)

The original Addams Family comics were single-panel cartoons, often with no speech at all (maybe just in a caption) but certainly not with any dialogue between characters. Gomez did have some juicy names for Morticia, and Morticia used “Dear” and “Grandmama” a lot, even before the TV series began. Then, the series dialogue did necessitate names.

As a child in the Sixties, I loved the Addams Family cartoon collection books as well as the new cartoons that occasionally appeared in The New Yorker. Then I loved the TV show too. Both just perfectly well done for their genre in their era, IMHO.

Funny