Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for April 29, 2021

Opus: “ You know, since I’m buying you dinner you could be a bit more agreeable.”

It is a tragic and yet historically period-accurate fact that the first LGBTQ character on an Anglophonic comics page was depicted as enacting the community’s repression-induced frustrations through what can be perceived as anguish-loaded misandry which most sociotypicals – testosterous or not – will (mis?)attribute to feminist extremism, even though the boundaries between the two are distinct. (This sort of overlap is one of the things that make people misunderstand feminism as “exchanging one power system for another” when its definitions are closer to “balancing the scales evenly and fairly”)

Breathed himself would admit to as much when these strips were collected in book form.

Conversationally waltzing with a porcupine is my favorite expression from the entire history of this strip.

Don’t forget the part about dancing on razor blades and broken glass.

In the 2020’s they would both get out their phones, ignore each other, enjoy their herring souffle, and split the check.

They’re both ‘conversationally waltzing with a porcupine’. Yeah, yeah, and how do porcupines ‘do it’? Carefully! >B^D

How could you not love someone that appreciates a good herring souffle…

Two ships, passing in the night. —And at least one is sinking, too….