Poor Richard's Scorecard

What's Next--a Pie Fight in 'Funky Winkerbean'?

INTERESTING START to some comic strips this week. Sally Forth offered us a reference to the Smiths, while Pearls Before Swine gave us a character getting knocked in the balls. From high culture to low, huh? Should be a fun week ahead; too bad Doonesbury's in reruns. | PRS

Well, at Least Zonker Is a Loser

Here's how the Inquirer has been announcing today's arrival of a new comic strip whose title character, an unemployed recent college graduate, moves back in with his parents and sister to save money:

Next, Perhaps Garry Trudeau Can Explain Where R.E.M. Went Wrong

Outland and Opus were well-intended missteps, but Bloom County remains, like Doonesbury and Calvin and Hobbes, not merely a comic strip but brilliant social commentary. I'd go so far as to call it (and them) literature. In an interview with Vice coinciding with the release of a five-volume compilation of every Bloom County strip, creator Berkeley Breathed offered several interesting insights about his work. And then there's this piece of Truth, when he was asked about his encounters with fans of Bloom County: