Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for September 14, 2023

Don’t worry, Opus, you can always change your name. I doubt John Wayne would have been as successful in movies if he’d tried to make it as Marion Morrison.

Mick could have remained Michael. Who knows if it would have made a difference

Mortimer Dipthong LOL

What’s wrong with Biff Turkle? I’d love to hear the nicknames

Yeah, imagine if you were called Berkeley Breathed, or Mancomb Seepgood.

You’d never amount to anything.

Benedict Cumberbatch is doing alright.

Nothing wrong with Opus. Is there?

Or the twist of fate that resulted in a fellow born in 1889 NOT being named “Adolf Schicklgruber.”

What about Colon Powell ? We have a real estate company named Buttram real estate, and an insurance agent on a billboard Jim Hymen.

Nomen est omen

Then there’s Bernard Flapfoodle, president and founder of the Funny Names Club of America.

Racecar driver Dick Trickle

It’s true, Binkley can never aspire to be a Milo Bloom.

“Is this Yahoo Serious?”

“Why yes, yes it is…” ☺

It must be why Arnold Dorsey performed as Englebert Humperdinck.

And just imagine… If Davy Jones hadn’t become hugely famous as a Monkee, we probably never would have had “David Bowie.”

Opus just needs a first name.. how about Magnum?

Is that a nose hair hanging from Milo’s nose in the second panel??

It’s the ethic names.

Nominative Destiny. Your fate is not written in the stars, but rather in you birth certificate.

Thank goodness I wasn’t born “Milo Bloom” or even “Mr. Penguin Opus”!