Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for August 17, 2018

You have to love it when the parents come to vist

She sure hustled to the snooping. One might even say she’s a hustler.

steve’s mom is constant but the dad keeps changing. I don’t know if Berke was doing it as a joke-Steve always calls him ‘dad’- or was just lazy.

Went to visit my parents on the 9th; came home on the 14th. That was about 7 days too long………

One doesn’t often feel sorry for Steve but in this case………………

Anyone notice that Steve’s dad is using Yiddish syntax in the last panel?

The correct word, of course, is “deviant”. “Deviate is a verb”. Or is that part of the joke?

1. (re: panel 1) This is Friday. 2. (re: parents) The visits are inevitable and unavoidable; just roll with it and then weep inconsolable after they go back to where they came from (viz. home). Steve isn’t the only one….

He has 3 copies of the September 1984 issue bagged. He thinks it’s for Vanessa Williams. The other non-Pet pictorial was of Traci Lords. She was born in August of 1968. You do the math. BTW, it took about 3 – 4 months for the photos to be taken, selected and then put into the issue. So, May of 1984. Traci was 15 at the time. Not being able to get that issue has nothing to do with it being collected for Ms Williams but being destroyed because of Ms Lords. Sister-in-law is an investigator investigating child-porn and such. They stories she could tell would get her banned from here.

Reading Penthouse is not deviant. It is natural male behaviour.