Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for July 27, 2022

Who knew you could style feathers?

Wonder what (hardly who) Opus will attract with this look.

Opus is rocking the Phil Spector look!

From the neck down, he’s pretty much all hip. And that pile of twigs on his head doesn’t help.

Some floor sweepings and a bit of glue..

The Bob Dylan Electric Look?

Poor, poor Opus…

I think I see birds in that nest

Early Bob Dylan-esque. Profile, noses are definitely similar ;-)

And there’s the poor barber in the third panel pleading with the fourth wall.

Well, whaddya want – today’s woman or one from the 1960s?

Can I call you Al? ☺

I wore plaid bell bottoms in High School.

When you get a haircut, get a barber you have known

Since you were a little bitty boy sittin’ in a booster chair

’Cause you might look like Larry, Moe or Curly if a stranger cuts your hair

He needs to get his fruit bowl hat back. It really was less “un-hip” than the mess on his head now.

Being able to style hair or feathers into something that frizzy tells of the talent of the barber

His references to David Cassidy, Bobby Sherman, and Donny Osmond seem dated even at the time the strip was published (1986). Those entertainers were at their peak popularity in the early ’70s.

Boris

“Savage animalism of Donny Osmond”?!?!

Ugh!

Sorry, Opus, but that is unhip in the extreme (for a penguin)….