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
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.
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
"Start over!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Dallas's - Guy Gardner worked well for both lols and playing with the nascent team's dynamic the first time, but it got diluted on reuse, and especially when played for dumber lols by clumsier hands than Giffen & DeMatteis
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.davart.net/awg/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/BloomCountyLiberalHunt.jpg
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/smwance/12390179/477237/477237_original.gif
I forgot that these are getting reprinted online daily:http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://i44.tinypic.com/20rl4is.jpg
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Might you, good sir, have the latest issue of Ivory?""Shoo! I run a progressive news stand here."
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://assets.amuniversal.com/a4a14bd05dbe012ee3bf00163e41dd5b
http://assets.amuniversal.com/f14999905dbf012ee3bf00163e41dd5b
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
I never noticed Hodgepodge's lapel pin before
omigod I had "Send him little Bobby's college fund" in my head the other day.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
for some reason that strip feels particularly relevant these days.
isn't it funny how bill suddenly learned to talk when he became fundamentally oral bill?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing but urges from hell!
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
it finally occurred to me, about 20 years too late, that the introduction to this book was probably not actually written by the person it was supposedly by:
http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/508/21165075/934641.jpg
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
In 10th grade I stole "Dear George Will' for a newspaper our English teacher asked us to produce on our own
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
I found my Billy & The Boinger flexi yesterday, inside a completely different book I was planning to ebay
― sug night (sic), Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
s
― sug night (sic), Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
"I was walking down the street and somebody hit me with a tree."
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://roasterboy.com/pictures/bloom.county.orginal.science.gif
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
I really need to pick up that complete collection.
― Fieri-brand sausages into my and your ready holes (silby), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2010/10/bananajr6k.jpeg
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Monday, 21 January 2013 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
has there been a "best comics strips of all time" poll? bloom county would def. be my number 1
― sleepingbag, Monday, 21 January 2013 06:28 (eleven years ago) link
Would be a boring poll, would go like1. Peanuts2. Calvin and Hobbes3. Bloom County4. Far Side5. Krazy Kat (Morbs throws up his hands when this is revealed so low)6-100. Nobody cares
― (panda) (gun) (wrapped gift) (silby), Monday, 21 January 2013 06:30 (eleven years ago) link
6-100. Nancy
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
http://nonperfect.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mafalda-politica1.jpg
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
i would definitely vote in a "best comic strips of all time" poll
― Mordy, Monday, 21 January 2013 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
I drew an Opus skeleton recently (bad photo):
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/382942_10151176663836428_1545233927_n.jpg
― I wish every slot machine had EAT THE RICH printed on it (Crabbits), Monday, 21 January 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
omg
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Ha i think i saw that on FB, so righteous.
― consistency is the owlbear of small minds (Jon Lewis), Monday, 21 January 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Fucking brilliant.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 21 January 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/deletedbloom853.html
a collection of strips that never made it into the TPBs
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/blmd851224.gif
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 06:48 (eleven years ago) link
been meaning to pick up the Complete whatever sometime.
― my god i only have 2 useless beyblade (silby), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
I had one of the collections when I was about 10 and thought it was awesome even though something like 90% of it went right over my head
― paolo, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
So classic then. Bloom County>>>Doonesbury
Haha thanks for those, I don't remember most of them.
I have the first library collection but haven't made it all the way through yet
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
need to pick up all those paperback collections again.
― akm, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
couldn't find the C. Everett Koop strip.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
Feb 1989, I think it's from
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link