I saw this thread pop up and now my brain is going, "In a Bloom County/dreams stay with you . . ."
― Du Musst Calamari Werden (Phil D.), Friday, 4 March 2011 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i know someone who worked on this film (the last film the effects house made before they closed up). he said it bears little to no resemblance to the book, unfortunately.
― akm, Friday, 4 March 2011 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I know more about the 80s from Bloom County than from anything else. (I was only alive for 11 months of the 80s.)
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
silby otm
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Monday, 5 March 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
I learned more about eighties politics during the eighties from Bloom County than from anything else.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
^ this. And I try to work in "I bet it's blow through others' toes, like those of...Caspar Weinberger" at every conversational opportunity.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
young me learned about Watergate from Doonesbury
― be scientific, douchebag (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
I was probably the only jr. high school student in the 80s asking their parents who Chuck Colson was
I was thinking about Deathtongue's Dr. Scholl's Odor Eaters-sponsored tour the other day.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
My choice of halloween costume in 1983 was largely due to Bloom County. I went as James Watt. I was eleven.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
Watt with the KISS makeu?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
p?
That is awesome. xxp
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
OPUS: PICKED TOO FAT
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
HE GOT RICKETS FROM CATS
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
xp Nope, just Watt, no Kiss makeup. I wore glasses anyway, so I dressed in a suit and put on a bald wig. To make sure people got that I was Watt, I wore a button that said, "Watt, me worry?"
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Did anyone get the costume, or did people ask you who you were all evening?
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
Parents in my neighborhood got it, and thought it was funny. There was a lot of, "Bob, get out here! Check it out, there's a kid dressed like James Watt!" None of my classmates knew who Watt was, though.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
"The Peterson's kid is dressed like an iguana!"
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder how much the completed reprinted hardcover series is going to be.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
They are all out I think; $30/vol on Amazon, five volumes http://www.amazon.com/Bloom-County-Complete-Collection-1980-1982/dp/1600105319
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Do they have the Billy & the Boingers flexidisc y/n
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
'the truth, steve, is that 'knight rider' is actually a children's program.''CAN'T BE! can't *@#!* BE!'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
"the truth, Binkley, is that you look like a carrot."
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
I busted out "gonna be a raucous caucus" a few weeks back on FB for obvious reason - and was shocked by the number of people who got the reference
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
I liked it when Breathed would pull out the physical violence, which was almost inevitably someone getting hit on the head with a stick or paddled.
Basselope gap, for example.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b203/maarts/rosebud4.gif
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
The toon that made me love the strip, back in 3rd/4th Grade:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/156980933_1ea5a376db.jpg
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Got the Complete Library Vol 1 from the local library(which has copies of all of them, Hooray!), and it's interesting to see BB try to get his footing in the early years. There are a _LOT_ of early strips that were never reprinted before, probably with good reason. Plenty of Pogo in here, too.
Example: Limekiller & Bobbi Harlow were far more prominent early on, before Steve Dallas showed up. Opus only appears briefly as Binkley's new pet penguin, then doesn't pop up again for another 6 months, and even then it's a while until they name him.
Far more Reagan and GOP jokes than you remember, too.
Also: Binkley's mom is shown.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I reread Tales Too Ticklish to Tell last week; I still get off on the penguin lust episode.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
First even printed Academia Waltz strip. Somebody grew up reading a lot of Trudeau and Fieffer:
http://www.geektress.com/images/bloomcoearly.jpg
http://www.geektress.com/images/bloomcoheader.jpg
the first sunday color logo
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
There's an entire run from 1982 of Milo getting in trouble for a class presentation on "Penguin evolution", which has him going on trial for not including the competing idea of "scientific penguinism".
Sometimes I get the idea that even if we waited for all the Reagan-era assholes to finally die off, stupidity is so hardwired into the human brain that this kinda shit will never leave us.
http://www.invisiblelizard.com/2006/03/penguin-lust.html
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mPljjiQDXjU/SXChp5x2E2I/AAAAAAAAAlg/gsAkttMxGpg/s1600/Penguin+Lust.jpg
One of BB's standard tropes I always enjoy was characters resting objects on their heads, which then could be ejected for heightened comic effect.
Disappointing Google search results:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Penguin-Lust/126374367398021?sk=info
Penguin Lust is the supple interaction that occurs in a penguin's heart when it sees an object of desire. This physiological phenomonon has brought about much controversy over the last several years but we believe it is a beautiful thing that should not be discouraged. Penguin Lust is primed for the upswing. Are you ready to LUST LIKE A PENGUIN?
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I loved how Portnoy, Hodge Podge, Mr. Binkley, and the rest all got Brylchreemed pompadours when born again
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9lOTZ1T8XQ/SwtAXEkdKCI/AAAAAAAAADw/FIfooHpid3w/s1600/Tales+Too+Ticklish+to+Tell+01.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9lOTZ1T8XQ/SwxvRrDC-oI/AAAAAAAAAD4/_iMntGO33Us/s1600/Tales+Too+Ticklish+to+Tell+02.jpg
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.animenation.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/wholegang.gif
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
wow, whaddayaknow, the Falklands really _are_ covered with penguins:
http://www.seabirds.org/penguins.htm
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/1/1267440566186/Steve-Bells-If...-01.03.2-001.jpg
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
This was one of the things I loved about Bloom County. Breathed had a sense of timing and pace that I hadn't seen in any other comics other than Krazy Kat, Calvin & Hobbes, and Peanuts. There was a frenetic energy to Bloom County that no other newspaper comic had at the time.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.johnsjottings.com/images/opus_big.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
Alfred, I won't be mad if you post those every day.
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
What I always loved about that one is how in the final panel you can just see Opus facing them, pants about his ankles, and can just sense a 'oh of COURSE' look on his face even though there's no way to actually see it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder what Breathed thinks of what Trump eventually went on to become
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
Margaret Thather >>> Diane Sawyer
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Thatcher too
Margaret, that's her
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
"hello? Sudden Success Services, Inc!"
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Ephemera/BloomCounty1988_SR_Aid.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
munch munch
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
TS: Guy Gardner's personality flip v Steve Dallas's
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Gephardtization?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link