“Eat the peas”
“They’re squooshy”
“Eat lead”
“Ow! Socialized medicine! Socialized medicine!”
“Boy Binkley”
“The Death Star!!!”
“Eat the peas”
My “find this strip” request…
Does anyone remember one of the first appearances of Cutter John? Opus is asking him questions about his chair, and Opus says something like “Hello, useless limbs?”, flutters his wings, then snuggles up to John?
01/29/1982
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=78801
my personal favorite:
07/13/1984
http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=82487
My favorite. I even had a copy of it in my library in my old house.
A Boy and his Penguin!
A Penguin and his Boy!
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Two Dips and a dad…
I printed this out for a pilot friend of mine. Too bad he never appreciated Bloom County.
I liked the one where all the animals are sprawled on their hilltop couch, eating junk food, and a jogger bounces up and starts lecturing them on how he’s gonna live twice as long as slobs like them. Then he gets hit by lightning and they all have a Twinkie.
Or something like that. It’s been a while…
This is the one I trot out occasionally when people start getting overly offended online…
This was one I had displayed on the office wall for years, unperturbed by the terrors of a nightmare until it included Joan Collins becoming your stepmom.
OK, this wasn’t a Bloom County strip but was in the intro to one of the books (which are now either long gone or buried in a box somewhere in the basement). Breathed is talking about some drawing he did back in high school or college, and they had a picture of it in the book. It was a drawing of an astronaut, with a big spray of red paint where the head would be. The picture was titled “Gesundheit”. Any idea what book that was in?
Here’s to no guarantees.
Tarzan-like screams of rage and frustration are not recommended while wearing a NASA-approved space helmet.
I THINK it was in Bloom County Babylon, but I’m not sure. Maybe Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things.
I assume this strip is supposed to be there.
You never knew what was going to come out of the Closet of Anxieties!
Kinda funny, considering IRL Gene is a nerd and probably bought an Apple II the second it hit the shelves.
For years, a colleague had a strip where Opus was describing to another character the new video for the Beatles’ “Yesterday”. He had always imagined porpoises leaping over rainbows and stuff like that. The new video had half-naked women and lots of explosions. “So you know what I think of now when I hear ‘Yesterday’? HALF-NAKED EXPLODING PORPOISES!!”
We still laugh about the punchline years later. Even though I’m more of a Doonesbury fan.