Bloom County or Doonesbury?

[The Brain]

Manga.

[PDH]

Bloom County.

I went to University and I had a Bloom County T-Shirt, some girl thought it was cute at orientation and I got laid.

I had to end it when she wanted me to dress like Opus.

[Jacob]

Bloom County.

I went to University and I had a Bloom County T-Shirt, some girl thought it was cute at orientation and I got laid.

I had to end it when she wanted me to dress like Opus.

Dress like Opus = Bowtie and nothing else?

or

Dress like Opus = Tux and a bowtie?

[DontSayBanana]

or

Dress like Opus = bowtie and a huge prosthetic nose?

[Gups]

Have I inadvertantly stumbled through a portal into a parallel dimension? 
None of these names means anything to me. 

They are US cartoon strips.  No reason why you should know anything about them.  It would be like an American who knew about Coronation Street.

Nah, he's just young; both Bloom County and Doonesbury were run in the Guardian.

Hmmm......wait a minute, I think Doonesbury still runs in the Guardian to this day (guy must be 80 or a zombie), what kind of commie ex-coal miner are you Tyr? .................doesn't even read the Guardian tsk tsk

Yep, they tried to drop it a few years ago and backed down after a storm of protests.

Don't remember Bloom County though.

[PDH]

I leave it to the imagination.  Still, she was hot.

[DontSayBanana]

I leave it to the imagination.  Still, she was hot.

Ah, gotcha.  It was the anchovies fetish.

[dps]

Doonesbury runs laps around Bloom County.  The much better showdown IMO is Doonesbury vs. Calvin & Hobbes.

C&H is the best, but the focus here is political satire, not overall comic greatness.

I'm not sure that makes for a fair comparison.  Doonesbury has alway been primarily political satire;  while Bloom County, to me, was as much about character humor and wacky hijinks as satire, and a lot of the satire it did include was as likely to be social/cultural satire as political satire.  Not that Doonesbury didn't have character humor, wacky hijinks, and social/cultural satire, and that Bloom County didn't have political satire, just that the focus seemed different.