Probably my favorite Bloom County Sunday strip. It was one of the few Sunday strips that had any continuity with the daily strips (this was during the Billy and the Boingers concert “tour” to Albuquerque). And it was brilliant in depicting the clash between reality and fantasy (or perhaps between different perceptions of reality) just as Bill Watterson did in Calvin and Hobbes and Chuck Jones did in One Froggy Evening. We had gotten so used by this point to cartoon animal characters like Opus, Bill, and others acting and speaking like humans that it was hilariously incongruous that they would actually act and speak like real animals. Also, the cop THINKS he lives in a world where animals don’t speak like humans and that isn’t part of the funny pages, but of course he does, and that is hilarious too.
Probably my favorite Bloom County Sunday strip. It was one of the few Sunday strips that had any continuity with the daily strips (this was during the Billy and the Boingers concert “tour” to Albuquerque). And it was brilliant in depicting the clash between reality and fantasy (or perhaps between different perceptions of reality) just as Bill Watterson did in Calvin and Hobbes and Chuck Jones did in One Froggy Evening. We had gotten so used by this point to cartoon animal characters like Opus, Bill, and others acting and speaking like humans that it was hilariously incongruous that they would actually act and speak like real animals. Also, the cop THINKS he lives in a world where animals don’t speak like humans and that isn’t part of the funny pages, but of course he does, and that is hilarious too.