# Spaceman Spiff invades Bloom County **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068 "2017-04-08T19:00:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/1 "2017-04-08T19:00:24Z")
This news is a week old, because I don’t see the new Bloom County strips until they republished at gocomics. (I think they’re originally put on Facebook or something.) It looks like Breathed has teamed up with Watterson in [Calvin County](http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2017/04/08). Hopefully this isn’t their last collaboration. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/2 "2017-04-08T19:50:27Z")
OK, I liked that. A lot. Such a blast of warm nostalgia from two of my favoritest cartoonists ever. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/3 "2017-04-08T20:35:36Z")
I just felt a disturbance in The Force. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/4 "2017-04-08T21:03:10Z")
So good. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/5 "2017-04-08T21:24:30Z")
It’s like I clicked my heels and ended up back in 1987. I hope there is more. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/6 "2017-04-08T22:47:52Z")
Apparently, this is a “tradition” for Bloom County. (Anything done twice is traditional, right?) Remember I said that gocomics gets the strips a week late, so that one was first posted on April 1. Here’s what wikipedia has to say about this and [last years’ strip](http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2016/04/08): > [@](#): > > On April 1, 2016 for April Fools Day, Berkeley Breathed posted on Facebook that Watterson had signed “the franchise over to my ‘administration’”. He then posted a comic with Calvin, Hobbes, and Opus all featured. The comic is signed by Watterson, though it remains to be seen how involved he actually was.[37] Breathed posted another “Calvin County” strip featuring Calvin and Hobbes, also “signed” by Waterston on April 1, 2017, along with a fake New York Times story ostensibly detailing the “merger” of the two strips. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/7 "2017-04-08T23:03:16Z")
Forgot: [link to the fake NY Times article](http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/calvin-county-watterson-breathed-mashup-the-time-warneraol-merger-of-the-comic-world) I do wonder how much Watterson contributed to this year’s comic. That Spaceman Spiff art does look authentic and I don’t think it’d be all that easy to copy his style for that. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/8 "2017-12-03T23:58:51Z")
Now Hobbs has guested in for 2 strips! [1st](https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1775872079110204/?type=3&theater)[2nd](https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1777401792290566/?type=3&theater) ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/9 "2017-12-04T16:04:24Z")
You’ve just made my week! Maybe there’s hope in the world after all. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/10 "2018-04-08T15:18:40Z")
A year later and another team-up between Breathed and Watterson: [Calvin County 2018](http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2018/04/08). Looks like it’s going to be an annual thing. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/11 "2018-04-08T15:42:37Z")
I’ve always wondered if Spaceman Spiff wasn’t originally _Spaceman Spliff_. In Watterson’s original vision, he had a cigar in his mouth (I read that somewhere). I wonder if there’s an _original_ original version with a, well, spliff in his mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Didactylos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@Didactylos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didactylos)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/12 "2018-04-08T16:25:31Z")
Sorry, this is a bit OT: In the 1990 Bloom County collection Happy Trails there’s a ‘critics page’ right before the title page. It contains a single quote attributed to Donald Trump: “I never thought Berke Breathed had talent, so he was probably forced to quit.” Does anybody know if Trump really said that ? I always figured it was made up, like the “quotes” from The Edge and other celebrities. Now I am not so sure. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/13 "2018-04-08T17:06:18Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > A year later and another team-up between Breathed and Watterson: [Calvin County 2018](http://www.gocomics.com/bloom-county/2018/04/08). Looks like it’s going to be an annual thing. Banksy could learn a thing or two from Watterson about limited artist exposure and leaving people wanting more. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spaceman-spiff-invades-bloom-county/784068/14 "2018-04-08T18:47:00Z")
> [@Didactylos](#): > > In the 1990 Bloom County collection Happy Trails there’s a ‘critics page’ right before the title page. It contains a single quote attributed to Donald Trump: “I never thought Berke Breathed had talent, so he was probably forced to quit.” > > Does anybody know if Trump really said that ? I always figured it was made up, like the “quotes” from The Edge and other celebrities. Now I am not so sure. There was an arc in Bloom County where Donald Trump’s brain was transplanted into Bill the Cat. It wasn’t really all that negative about Trump, but considering his ego, I doubt he appreciated it. So that quote could have been real, although my guess is that it was made up.