Bloom County Returns

JaxUr

Cartoonist Berkley Breathed appears poised to return to Bloom County:

http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/a-major-opus-is-bloom-county-coming-back/article_cc0057de-28f2-11e5-9d9a-3f7e47417067.html
What's your favorite moment or character from the old strip?

SolitaireRose

Hm...I wonder if it will be in newspapers or not. And if so, will it take the place of Doonesbury again, since that strip has been in reruns for a couple of years now.

David_D

First one is up! He seems for the moment to be putting them on his FB and linking to that from his website.

WetRats

SolitaireRose said:

Hm...I wonder if it will be in newspapers or not. And if so, will it take the place of Doonesbury again, since that strip has been in reruns for a couple of years now.

What newspapers?

:(

Torchsong

Favorite character(s): Portnoy and Hodge-Podge - the ultra-conservative rabbit and hedgehog duo. Also honorable mention for Steve Dallas...who better be making a comeback in this series.

Favorite moment: Oliver Wendell Jones and his father. "Son, you may have darn well destroyed Western civilization. Frankly, I find the whole thing inexcusable."

bamfbamf

WHAT NO WAY!?!?!

YES!!!

bralinator

WetRats said:

SolitaireRose said:

Hm...I wonder if it will be in newspapers or not. And if so, will it take the place of Doonesbury again, since that strip has been in reruns for a couple of years now.

What newspapers?

:(

What's a newspaper?

playdohsrepublic

bralinator said:

WetRats said:

SolitaireRose said:

Hm...I wonder if it will be in newspapers or not. And if so, will it take the place of Doonesbury again, since that strip has been in reruns for a couple of years now.

What newspapers?

:(

What's a newspaper?

They are those websites where a bunch bloggers tell people about the day's events I think. It's like 100 tweets on a single subject.

Chuck_Melville

Meh.

David_D

Chuck_Melville said:

Meh.

Welcome to the Internet, Berkeley Breathed!

David_D

JaxUr said:

Cartoonist Berkley Breathed appears poised to return to Bloom County:

http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/a-major-opus-is-bloom-county-coming-back/article_cc0057de-28f2-11e5-9d9a-3f7e47417067.html
What's your favorite moment or character from the old strip?

Getting back to the question @JaxUr asked-- one of my favorite storylines was when Opus helped Dallas try to quit smoking

David_D

And this one has stuck with me (and now some of the details of this resonate in a different way)--

The end of the storyline where Tom Binkley has a crisis because he doesn't like Jesse Jackson, but he thinks that means he's racist. And it takes Oliver's father to give him permission to just go ahead and dislike him. And, of course, the punchline now lands a very different way all these years later--

WetRats

I loved the early in-jokey newspaper business stuff, of course.

bamfbamf

too much good stuff

bamfbamf

HA!


or get sold to Disney!

WetRats

I will confess I preferred the strip when the human characters were the primary focus.

Torchsong

nweathington

Still have my Billy and the Boingers Tour shirt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odUt-lDH85k

matchkitJOHN

bamfbamf said:

HA!


or get sold to Disney!

We waited 16! And that was a downer.

shroud68

I loved Bloom County but in all honesty I have never revisited it since the 80's. I'm curious if I will enjoy it as much or if I revised it would it hold up? Reading the above strips I think I will. Let's hope new stuff is as sharp.

random73

JaxUr said:

Cartoonist Berkley Breathed appears poised to return to Bloom County:

http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/a-major-opus-is-bloom-county-coming-back/article_cc0057de-28f2-11e5-9d9a-3f7e47417067.html
What's your favorite moment or character from the old strip?

Oliver staring up at the night sky.
Stars rearrange themselves to read, "repent Oliver".
Oliver says,"bloody difficult being agnostic these days".

Or

Oliver is coloring a self portrait on the floor and asks for flesh color.
Wait a beat
"I'll trade you for a burnt auburn".

Webhead

One of my favorite Bloom County was when the put on the "US" festival

To this day when The Police's "Every BreathYou Take" I can't help but think of Opus's version and I laugh.

Here are some of those strips