Lola Granola

Lola Granola

Lola Granola, also known as Fatima Struggle, is a fictional character in the comic strips "Bloom County" and "Opus" by Berkeley Breathed.

Lola, a free spirited hippie and abstract artist, was the unlikely fiancée of Opus the Penguin. Their polar opposite personalities clashed almost immediately; Opus disliked her art, abhorred her vegetarianism, and was horrified to learn that she had a tattoo of Dan Fogelberg in a "scandalous" place. (Opus mispronounced the name, calling him 'Dan Fogerburp.') He also once showed up to meet her mother and pastor while dressed in his costume for his heavy metal band Deathtöngue. Lola grudgingly shaved her legs because Opus was getting rugburn when they danced, which caused her "Dead Head" membership to be revoked.

After a long-awaited wedding, Opus was knocked out when his nose collided with Lola's when they kissed. While unconscious, Opus dreamed about Lola leaving him 20 years later with 23 tube-grown kids. Opus demanded annulment due to incompatible noses and Lola was spoiled from all birds for the rest of her life (Tweety Bird later tried to get her out on a date, but she refused).

As "Bloom County" ended, Opus met with her once more, at which point she revealed that she wanted to go on to pose in "Playboy".

She did not appear in "Outland"; however, Lola made her first appearance in "Opus" on August 12, 2007. [Washington Post; Comics Page (August 12, 2007)] . On August 26th, 2007, it was implied that she was Steve Dallas' girlfriend.

The August 26th, 2007 and September 2nd, 2007 "Opus" comic strips featuring Lola Granola were withheld from newspapers across America after "The Washington Post" deemed the comic strips as being too controversial. In the August 26th strip, Lola tells Steve Dallas that she has become a "radical Islamist," which is the "hot new fad on the planet," and that she prefers to be called "Fatima Struggle." She then insinuates at the end of the strip that Steve will not get any sex, "God willing." The September 2nd strip has Steve telling Lola to wear a yellow polka-dot bikini, but instead she appears at the end of the comic strip wearing a Burqini.

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