When Exaggeration Isn't Enough

Here’s the Bloom County rerun that ran yesterday. It’s originally from 1983, and concludes a sequence in which Binkley was dreaming he’s a Jedi Knight. I’m sure that at the time, Berke Breathed thought he was being preposterous – for comedic effect – by implying that the Star Wars saga wouldn’t be complete until 1998… And that was when the word on the street was that there were going to be 9 installments… So, in retrospect, knowing that George didn’t even start them back up until 1999, this strip made me laugh instead, at the innocence of the past…