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Bloom County Comic Strip (1980-1989)

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Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk.

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[–] nocturne@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago
[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sheesh

And we saw this disaster creeping up on us since at least Nixon...
(or didn't we? guess we didn't)

*bad nation, bad*
(whaps everyone with a rolled-up newspaper)

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's funny (sad) seeing these strips pop up in my feed. Like, oh, Exxon was the bad guy in 1982? The same Exxon still doing the same thing today? imindanger.gif

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Zero real consequences if the net gain is still outrageous profit, I guess?

Btw, you must be sick of explaining it by now, but I'm thinking that the "R" doesn't stand for "Riberius," as if it was down to a Scooby-Doo translation error.

Altho "Rames Riberius Rirk" has a certain charm, I think. lol

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But I do like “Rames Riberius Rirk” lol

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Like, zoiks!