"Bloom County" to return

I'm a little behind the times; I only learned about Bloom County's return a moment ago when I discovered this thread. Even though I was too young to get most of the political humor during its initial run, it was always one of my favorite comic strips. It's probably safe to say that Berke Brethed's style influenced my own artistic sensibilities at least a little bit. Bloom County may even have helped get me into Star Trek- years before I started watching the show, some of the strips I was most captivated by were the ones in which they pretended Cutter John's wheelchair was the Enterprise and Opus was Mr. Spock.

A quick sketch I did a couple years back:

 

Rescue mission for a missing crew member. Sadly, it's not Portnoy or Hodgepodge.

 

Trumpo the Nutt, I wonder who shot first?

 

I always thought Portnoy and Hodge-Podge were fairly forgettable characters- a bit like Shermy and Violet from Peanuts; they just kind of faded from prominence as the strip evolved.

 

I want metal bikini Opus.

 

Be careful of what you wish for RJD.

You may get it.

 

That's an awesome drawing of Opus, rocketdave! It's so good that the first time I saw it I thought it was one of Breathed's drawings that you copied and attached to your post. Well done!

 

I'm taking BLOOM COUNTY 2015 as canonically establishing that Bill the Cat *had* testicles in the old strip.

 

True. I wouldn't put anything past Breathed.

 

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood!"

It's a sentiment Breathed has expressed before, and in a very similar manner, but it is one worth repeating nontheless.

ETA: Wait, wait, wait... Is that Bobbi Harlow?!?

 

Corrected Link to comic.

 

^Thanks for that. Original link fixed.

And, at least according to her wikipedia page (and, wow, somebody was to make that edit), that is indeed Bobbi Harlow. (ETA: Already edited to "'appears' to be Bobbi Harlow") However, the article goes on to cite the resemblance between John and the kid, who just looks like a generic Breathed character to me.

Not that I don't believe that John and Bobbi wouldn't have hooked up, it's just that she's such an obscure character from so early in the strip's history.

 

Ohhh, I hope it's Bobbi Harlow. That would be fantastic.

 

People in the comments section certainly think it's Bobbi. Hopefully this means Portnoy and Hodgepodge aren't far behind.

Seriously, I love how Bloom County just keeps getting better and better since its return. This one was simply magically. And not just because Bill threw his ice cream into his own face because, fuck it, that's the kind of thing he would do.

 

Why is Cutter John the only person who got old?

 

Why does a penguin with a nose the size of a watermelon talk and support Donald Trump?

 

I'm still trying to figure out how Donald Trump looks like a penguin's nose and has a head the size of a watermelon.

 

Touché, good sir.

 

I thank you, kind sir.

 

She's not Bobbi.