I’ve seen the picture. It’s from my day, but I don’t pay much attention to the entertainment world. Funny how it disappeared when the door was opened—half of it should be back there. Unless Gregg is right about it being part of the dream.
it is true though about soviet maps that they were crap. used in ww2 against the germans and during the cold war. and, until the fall of the communist regime, some towns didn’t exist or had different names. but, yuri was head of the kgb during hungary revolt and the prague spring and going into afghanistan. be falwell’s nightmare yuri, that guy was a paranoid con man.
It’s a stylistic element that BB used. He’d often place a poster or picture of a person in just one panel of a strip. It was one of the small pleasures of reading the strip.
According to Arkady Renko, the hero in Martin Cruz Smith’s series of novels, road maps in the Soviet Union were hard to come by, because if you didn’t know how to get there already, you probably have no business going in the first place.
rayannina over 11 years ago
Best part: the Nastassja Kinski poster on the wall.
skeeterhawk over 11 years ago
I’ve seen the picture. It’s from my day, but I don’t pay much attention to the entertainment world. Funny how it disappeared when the door was opened—half of it should be back there. Unless Gregg is right about it being part of the dream.
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
it is true though about soviet maps that they were crap. used in ww2 against the germans and during the cold war. and, until the fall of the communist regime, some towns didn’t exist or had different names. but, yuri was head of the kgb during hungary revolt and the prague spring and going into afghanistan. be falwell’s nightmare yuri, that guy was a paranoid con man.
TaxGeek over 11 years ago
So now we know where Apple maps came from.
crlinder over 11 years ago
It’s a stylistic element that BB used. He’d often place a poster or picture of a person in just one panel of a strip. It was one of the small pleasures of reading the strip.
Vonne Anton over 11 years ago
Capitalist mortal? Are socialists immortal? Now THAT’s a perk, right there!
American1 over 11 years ago
Yuri…you should’ve taken that left turn at Albuquerque.
Llywus over 11 years ago
TY rayannina – I remembered the poster but couldn’t remember the girl’s name.
jadoo823 over 11 years ago
…love the hammer & sickle on the pitchfork…
klunker rider over 11 years ago
Didnt Andropov drop off really fast? I’m reminded of the Car Talk guys who say their official limousine driver in named Pikuv Andropov
Droptma Styx over 11 years ago
According to Arkady Renko, the hero in Martin Cruz Smith’s series of novels, road maps in the Soviet Union were hard to come by, because if you didn’t know how to get there already, you probably have no business going in the first place.