Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for October 16, 2018

A Russian president, formerly of the KGB, meaning to intimidate the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue resident? Does he have a pee-pee tape?

Cripes, Andropov is a bit of a deep cut- he, Chernenko and Gromyko are almost forgotten between the two behemoths of Brezhnev and Gorbachev I would think.

Another attempt by this leftist to make us more comfortable with Communism. Not funny.

Yuri The Kid? You know how old he was when he took control?

Aw, lets get back to dad’s midlife crisis – that was some funny stuff, there.

Another weird trip in Breathed’s Wayback Machine.

“Exit, staage left…”

I remember when these came out. i was in college and focusing very heavily on the soviet union. I was a teaching assistant and one afternoon had just settled down to grade midterms when I got a call from a telemarketer selling time-life books of the world ‘and our first book is the soviet union,…" he went into his sales pitch and then I said "I’m sitting here grading college papers exploring the argument ‘was stalinism an extention of or perversion of lenininsm.’ there was a long pause then he said “I guess these aren’t for you.’”“Uh-yup.”

There could be an interesting SciFi “alternate Earth” story in which all closets are fully interconnected. As early as the 1950s, I still remember conversations with people who suspected “weird presences” in or near their closets.

Ah, the ghost of Yuri “the Kid”! Just in time for a Halloween snicker or Snickers….