P-h-w-a-h-a-h-o-o-i-n-g. Verb. Definition: to have one’s eyeballs explode from one’s head. Multiple warheads optional. Also used for imitating boobs that may have caused eyeballs to explode in the first place. Use in a sentence: “My eyeballs just went fwaaoing on your pizza, Ma’am.”
Cartoon self-awareness is so ironic. Of course, it all never happened right before our very eyes; just in BB’s head. And his head is not like those of most other people….
A follow-up on Breathed’s “cartoon special effects explained,” where in an earlier Sunday “Bloom County” strip, Milo and Opus gave the readers definitions of “sweat-dropping,” “Kablooies” (cartoon explosions) and “swivilies” (Binkley’s “circling worms” above,) to name a few.
Opus’s bulging eyes was a nod to the “Roger Rabbit bulging-eye gag” from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” and the classic cartoon era (I’ve always loved Hanna-Barbera’s classic “Tom & Jerry” toon expressions.)
What a classically twisted and creative comic strip, a tripendicular blend of words and images – if that’s not an art form, I dont know what is. Fwaaoingg,indeed.
Vonne Anton about 8 years ago
P-h-w-a-h-a-h-o-o-i-n-g. Verb. Definition: to have one’s eyeballs explode from one’s head. Multiple warheads optional. Also used for imitating boobs that may have caused eyeballs to explode in the first place. Use in a sentence: “My eyeballs just went fwaaoing on your pizza, Ma’am.”
William Taylor about 8 years ago
Breathed is wonderful, but he is a very sick man. ;-)
billswingle about 8 years ago
I wonder if Mr. Breathed even reads these comments.Assuming so, I want say EXCELLENT strip today!
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
Cartoon self-awareness is so ironic. Of course, it all never happened right before our very eyes; just in BB’s head. And his head is not like those of most other people….
HAL69 about 8 years ago
(chuckling)
A follow-up on Breathed’s “cartoon special effects explained,” where in an earlier Sunday “Bloom County” strip, Milo and Opus gave the readers definitions of “sweat-dropping,” “Kablooies” (cartoon explosions) and “swivilies” (Binkley’s “circling worms” above,) to name a few.
Opus’s bulging eyes was a nod to the “Roger Rabbit bulging-eye gag” from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” and the classic cartoon era (I’ve always loved Hanna-Barbera’s classic “Tom & Jerry” toon expressions.)
ciesko9 about 8 years ago
What a classically twisted and creative comic strip, a tripendicular blend of words and images – if that’s not an art form, I dont know what is. Fwaaoingg,indeed.