And so it ends.

This one only gets 4 stars and not because Bloom County ended with this set of strips. It is because Breathed was tired of doing the strip but kept on, probably for contractual reasons or some such, and his boredom and anger showed up a little too often. He reminds me of the later years of George Carlin, when being funny was more about being screamingly angry, bitter, and frustrated than just sitting to one side poking at the weirdness that is our world. That's what happened here, and for better or worse, it isn't something I enjoy. I have entirely too much anger, bitterness, and frustration of my own to want to take on someone else's when I really just need reminders of how to sit at the side and poke. ( )