Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for August 27, 2020

That’s a lot of chives.

Oliver needs to show Mom how to properly “lob” in.

Keep calm, and chive on.

He’ll enjoy being on a bed of noodles. Just hold the sauce.

Howard? Howard?

I know what moms do with those big wooden spoons! I’m staying in here for a while!

Howard! If you aren’t out here in two seconds, your son….

WE INTERRUPT this narrative to give Comic Strip Censor Guy time to evaluate what follows for possible excessive violence, child abuse, or lack of humor.

That’s a real old dial up modem Oliver is using there. You couldn’t have call waiting, if I remember correctly. It would kick you off line if someone called you. But I could be wrong. I didn’t have a computer until the dial up modems were internal.

I’m thinking this is Mr. B’s tribute to David Bowie’s TVC-15…

“Release Howard now or you get a bucket of salt water on the CPU!!”

“She got me! Right in the ‘any’ key…”

Today, when someone “disappears into their computer”, it means they have an “Internet addiction”. I’ve always wondered what an intervention would like – Zoom?

TRON!