Cutter John

Cutter John is a fictional character in the 1980s comic strip Bloom County by Berke Breathed. Cutter was a wheelchair-bound Vietnam War veteran and one of the county's most well-liked citizens. Despite being somewhat childish and awkward at times, he was very popular with the ladies, particularly schoolteacher Bobbi Harlow. Cutter also was a good friend to many of the animal characters of Bloom County, often role-playing Star Trek with them (using his wheelchair as the "Enterpoop"). In one story arc, he and Opus the Penguin were lost at sea (after Oliver Wendell Jones had converted Cutter's wheelchair into a hot-air balloon) while attempting to cause havoc at the South Africa embassy in Washington, D.C. (their goal was to turn the South African ambassador black). Having blown off course and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, Cutter was captured by a Soviet submarine and held as a spy. Opus developed amnesia during the incident and found his way back to the Bloom Boardinghouse, and... full article at wikipedia