Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for December 19, 2016

They could add Bob and Doug McKenzie to the mix.

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“Take off, you hoser!”

Lots of Calvin & Hobbes vibes in today’s strip.

Biff?

But the pain is just too much.

In the end, I am no great wizard. nor a talented cartoonist able to illustrate this Theater of the Absurd.

We The Sane People appear powerless to stop the insanity..God help us all.

Funny.

Spaceman Biff flies again!

Who’s that, the mother of the child cancer patient? (Does she even have a name?)

Ten below zero, and that hose isn’t frozen up?

Biff is probably Biff Tannen from Back to the Future, I believe she is Bobby from the earlier days of the strip didn’t her and Cutter John hook up?

Sorr, Bobbi Harlow is the feminist schoolteacher of Milo and Binkley and the love interest of both Steve and Cutter. She was a major character until 1983, when she disappeared. She appears only once in the strip’s later years, when Opus learns she has joined the crew of The Phil Donahue Show.

Galactic Trumpire…. no, no EVIL Galactic Trumpire!

Hell has no fury like a woman… with a garden hose… in the middle of winter… with a husband/boyfriend who refuses to grow up… Fire away dear woman, um I mean water away…

Little bit of my nerdy tweener years just came back to me and reminded me why I fell in love with the original and how big a hole there has been in the comics page all these years.

I don’t know about this woman. She’s half cool and half mommy. I do know she’s not my kind of gal.

Don’t you remember Cutter John’s girl from years ago?

This strip is very Calvinesque. (Calvin and Hobbs)

This has a bit of Star Trek/Wars mashed in there, too!

Calvin LIVES!

On the rare occasions is snowed in Asheville, students would steal the plastic trays from the cafeteria for impromptu sleds.

Berk damn’t it!,If you’re going to draw Godzilla,MAKE THE TOHO ONE WILL YOU,AND NOT PURPLE LIKE BARNEY!

The shortest distance between two points…Reading an old SciFi anthology, with a short story titled “Barnacle Bull.” Same idea. Copyright 1960.

This is quite probably the best Academia Waltz, Bloom County, Outland, Opus, and Bloom County again strip ever. I loved it when it was posted to Facebook a week ago and was looking forward to seeing it here. I love the little details, like the great big monster holding the little bitty hose

Pour it on! (So to speak.) That ship had gone rogue and was a phantom menace!

The trouble with Tribbles is you can’t count on ’em when the Death Star strikes!

It could be worse. It could have been Boba Fett, the bounty hunter from the USS Voyager.

Great artwork, although Calvin and Hobbes would be more red whereas this is more purple. Kind of a mix of blue and red. Maybe Berkeley is trying to convey something a little more important than a silly four frame cartoon. Hats off to making me laugh and think.

Oh man… the references… :D