Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for November 01, 2022

Fanged ‘Funky Winkerbeans’. Nope. Don’t really want to smell those.

From a simpler time when comics were only read in newspapers. The joke doesn’t work as well in an era when many people read comics on their computers or cell phones.

The first panel with Milo and Opus, I thought Opus was saying “ham”.

Scratching my screen and I think I can smell something, getting a nail, okay yes, Opus is right. Funky winkerbeans exist.

Maybe riffing the 1981 John Waters film “Polyester”.

Opus, overdosing on purple ink.

Hey Opus, must be better than snorting those dandelions from the meadow…..

I can’t smell anything on my monitor screen. Uh oh, carbon monoxide is odorless, right? Getting…..sleeeepy…

Reference to an early Doonesbury strip, wherein Zonker Harris is having night terrors, if memory serves

Ah yes, the Funky Winkerbean Syndrome. Not something you want to participate in… even with Milo’s carefully crafted medical oversight.

Funky is crossdressing, I mean appearances.

Nasty Milo! Trying to drug your readers with hallucinogens, just as you’ve done to poor, crazed Opus!