Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for January 30, 2013

Oh, god, I LOVED this one!

TINY nitpick! It’s “footless halls of air”, not “footloose”. Does this count as a Kevin Bacon connection?

Further nitpicking I’m afraid. “…topped the windswept heights with EASY grace…” and there is no “I” at the start of the final line. My favourite poem, and whereas not that many people still alive have experienced flying Spitfires like the doomed young MacGee of the Royal Canadian Air Force, something in this poem still does it for most pilots, no matter how mundane our own craft.

didn’t reagan use this for the challenger disaster?

What a rush!How good of Milo and Binkley to give Opus his chance to experience flight!

Someone mentioned “God” in a comic strip after the 1960s. Call the ACLU or something. Someone might be offended. ;-)

Curious about the date when this originally ran, as we marked the anniversary of the Challenger disaster just a week or two ago. If before Challenger exploded, this sets up an interesting sequence. If after that, if profanes a moment which remains hallowed for most of us who listened back them.

Surprising that Opus isn’t ticklish.

…american father, british mother, born in china, educated in china, england & US, joined rcaf, died in britain. Truly a citizen of the world…

One of my favorite Bloom County strips ever.

This is a rather derisive use of a genuinely inspiring poem. I like to think I’m not stuffy…but maybe I am.

This is the first time I have ever commented on a strip. I always thought mostly the odd did so. Thank you all for correcting that misconception. This strip spoke to me too.

I was living in Orlando when I saw the the Challenger explode. That was the first time I actually heard any sound over here from a launch.

touched the face of God?!!!!…is He ticklish????!!!!!!!

If you ever watched the film “Koyaanisqatsi” the ending of that is like a foreboding of the Challenger disaster. The film was made in 1982.