Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for February 09, 2018

I’ve always loved the Cutter John/Star Trek strips. Still gives me great joy after all these years.

Scoop up Bill the Cat & see if he’ll hack a hairball into the Klingon’s mouth.

He looks like a hood ornament.

Can you reverse a Tractor Beam?

He’s lucky he didn’t end up as road kill!

My uncle would probably do something like that. He lost his legs in Vietnam – one to the knee & one all the way – and prosthetics were too uncomfortable. When I was a hostess at a restaurant, he & his wife would come in & I would seat them. I would sit in the empty spot in his chair and point the directions. People would look at us aghast.

“There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow, There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, scrape them off, Jim!”

When I read this strip the first time (MANY years ago), I was young and fairly healthy – and I was “GO FOR IT, Cutter John!”

Now I am a bit older, a bit wiser, and permanently disabled due to vertigo and arthritis, and, as I tool around the neighborhood with my rollator (wheeled walker with brakes), I want to be like Cutter John.

My insurance company, when they replaced my 10yo rollator, provided me one with tiny plastic wheels rather than the go-anywhere rubber wheels I wanted. They told me it was because I was to only use it indoors, and I shouldn’t be walking around outside – I could fall and get hurt! So I bump along with plastic wheels, and they don’t need to know.

Take out the whole Klingon contingent, Cpt. Cutter John! Hurrah for the USS Enterpoop!

If you want to see the precedent, check out Academia Waltz today!

Can someone help me find the strip when Opus calls 911 because there is a fat lady pruning her azaleas in pea soup green hot pants?