Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for December 04, 2021

They turned Opus into a puffin!

Well, the surgery worked.

Riveting.

AAAAAAH!! Oh, the Penguinity!

“There no longer will be…”

“Life seldom is pretty…”

it’s bing crosby

I think I’m going to be sick….

No.

Now he looks like a waiter.

Ah, Jimmy Durante!

Riffing on Michael Jackson?

This reminds of the saying " be careful what you wish for " it might not be what you really want .

Egads! Gadzooks! Mercy!

This was so worth the wait! I think the reveal was funnier to me the second time around.

OMG!!! Time to take up secular humanism!

Put back the cereal box!!!!

Will he ever learn??

Well, at least it is a better result than when he had it liposuctioned.

What a muffin his new puffin is!

“Baby, I was born this way”

I told you there’d be horror.

uh no…..

Oh, the horror! The HORROR!

… could be worse, I suppose.

Arrgh! Must. Be. Brave. And. Face. It.

They’ve made a nearly-noseless Nasal Eunuch out of our beloved big-schnozzed guy!

Luckily, this cartoon cosmetic surgery can be reversed. (Are you listening, big bad BB, wicked cartoonist?)

Um….

A shnoz does not define a person’s personality

… OK, it does.

“And hereee’s Opus.” Ed McMahon is that you?

The shock is too much for my poor heart to bear. Oh, that Parental Action Groups would have shouted louder, and maybe if the Penguin Lives Matter groups would have assimilated on the main streets of our cities nad villiages. Then maybe this poor mishap could have been saved. Now, all children will think their schnozes are misrepresented by their mirrors. Oh, the painfulness!

Refresh my memory – was this around the same time New Coke debuted?