Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for February 18, 2016

They auto be embarrassed.

Hey, those battery cables were justly infamous!

Nope. It was the fuel tanks that we had to beat down.

It was the cable or them.

And usually, whenever one finds the battery cable, the rest of the car—or parts of it—are nearby and in the same condition, just like that Pinto at the bottom of Lexington Reservoir south of Campbell, California, that makes an appearance every time the water level is low.

Well done, lads! That’s one ’73 Pinto battery cable that will spark no more!

True story: The family car of one of my high school chums was a Pinto…with Firestone 500 tires. Needless to say, I never accepted a ride from them… ;^.^

Gives new meaning to the expression: FORD – Found On the Road, Dead !

I love Opus’s pose.

This is the last appearance of Alphonzo, the boy behind Opus. Exactly one month from this strip’s original publication is the first appearance of Oliver Wendell Jones.

This is the last appearance of Alphonzo…

Alphonzo being a riff on Cosby’s Fat Albert, if I recall.

horrible cars…the pinto, the corsair, the mustang 2, the aztec, lancia beta, solstice, fiero, ion, cimarron, samurai,

As if the Pinto did not suffer enough shame from its gas tank.

One line I have loved from a TV movie was the response to an 18yo’s question: “Mom, what’s a Yugo?”“It’s a car built before you were born, in a country that no longer exists.”

Aww yes, the Pinto. You could hear them coming.

My dad bought a new Lancia. I remember reaching down for the seat belt and its cover near the floor of the car snapped right off. And it was not a cheap car.

Why all the 1983 strips?!?

Hey, I drove one of those, and it was great. I didn’t worry about the gas tank, with the V6 in it there was practically nothing that could catch up to it.

Oh hey Mitch! Remember that one Cal Arts tape with all three of these strips animated and narrated? Can’t seem to find it online tho.

Please bring back Portnoy and Hodge Podge in the new strips, BB. We need their hilarious antics as the Meadow Party election campaign heats up. My prediction is that Portnoy will be hired by the Trump campaign to create Hillary attack ads and Hodge Podge will be hired by the Clinton campaign to create Trump attack ads. And at the end of each day, Port and Hodge will sit at the bar together drinking beer, mutually unaware of each others’ work.