


I used to keep this Berkeley Breathed "Bloom County" comic in my high school locker in the late 80s. For the record, I snorted the dandelions.

Don't blame me, I vote for Bill & Opus.
It's a trip going through those old Bloom County strips and finding references to Caspar Weinberger and whatnot. Man, what an odd decade that was.
Back in '86, I convinced our local laser print shop to make a t-shirt for me with the Sunday strip of Opus' encounter with a Hare Krishna. I think it ends with Opus muttering the words, "hairy fish nuts?"
I used to have a copy of the first version of the Bill and Opus screensaver. The one where Opus shot flying toasters and Tyrannosaurus Bill Gates would chomp Bill the Cat's head off. I think the floppies went bad at some point and I've been scouring the Internet for years trying to find a copy of the original. I'm sure it's out there somewhere. I'll find it. Eventually.
I cut this out the day it printed and hung it on the door of my dorm room for years. Still have it in a folder.
My favorite was Opus proclaiming it to be the wonderful morning of a glorious new day with his flippers raised to the rising sun.
And in the last panel he's on his back saying "of course one day the sun's going to explode and we'll all fry.." and Milo is leaning over him saying "Oh, stop it."