Bloom County C/D?

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xpost: i can't see that graphic for some reason, ned

HUR HUR HUR

CLASSIC

gobsmackingly classic; so much of my humor is BC-indebted.

I can't find that strip online, tho. Something about the guy on tv asking, "Friend, do you suffer from a weak will and a lack of confidence?"

Steve laughingly agrees, and it goes from there, to the point where the guy on tv starts making hilariously pointed & specific attacks on Steve. Steve stands up and says "now wait just a second," to which the guy on TV replies, "oh LORD spare us, sit down"

and then calvin & hobbes came around and i haven't thought of it since...

Classic.

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0RO4L5SWJ6C5Q340TTH1PGM5EV

You Stink, but I Love You:

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23SWNILNV652N3JQD9ANAXWMEX

BTW, classic classic classic. The standard that all newspaper comic strips should be held to. Outland? Not so much.

By the way, I just managed to post these on the Cat Power/Fiona Apple/Beth Orton thread on ILM. Because I am dumb.

.......

Opus: "38."
Steve Dallas: "Give me a fuckin' cigarette before I stick you in a blender."

"HERE'S BREAKFAST FROM AUNT OPUS!"

"It says in the Bible, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone'."
"So we CAST that first MUTHA!"

I love the early stuff, but at this point, Doonesbury is just a terrible reminder of what it used to be.

Outland was enjoyable enough, Opus I've barely seen.

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/1374/opustv3iu.th.jpg

Unlike Doonesbury, Breathed was always more inclined for actual slapstick and absurdity(e.g. TVs ran around a lot)

"U Stink" seems more like pre-synth Van Halen, only with far more vocal sneering.

Your comments?

However, it has not aged well. I'm not just talking about the Reagan references either. When you read the books from start to finish, there's a lot of material that feels rushed and not quite well-thought out. When I read the Breathed interview where he talks about finishing the panels on the airplane flying the strips from Iowa to New York for publishing, I thought, "Yup. And it sure did show in spots."

It started out as a "Doonesbury" rip-off (complete with Duke imitation and forgery talking-to-the-mirror strip) and ended with the Outlandish adventures of a Basselope and Reagan Ann. But in the middle there, it was pure D classic.

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Complete digital library of Bloom County / Outland for $16
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imho this aged incredibly poorly

I like it but it's purely nostalgia, I can't see it appealing to anybody who didn't live through the 80s

^^^ yup

I'd've thought Donna Rice jokes would age like a fine wine.

I mean, it's basically like watching almost any '80s SNL political sketch.

"Well, I'd be the President's little dumplin' anyday!" Phyllis Schlafly said earlier.

reading this as a kid (having not really lived through the 80s) is largely responsible for nobody getting any of my jokes in elementary & middle school

I do wonder if it's kind of like Doonesbury, in that respect? As a lad I would read compendiums of the 70s Doonesbury and kind of laugh at different things (Zonker, primarily) and then wonder who Jeb Macgruder was. (tbf I gleaned a lot of info about recent American political history from these strips)

i generally do okay on Watergate jeopardy categories due to doonesbury paperbacks
"that's GUILTY, GUILTY GUILTY!"

seeing an old bloom county here and there always makes me smile, haven't tried to sit down and actually reread an entire book tho. most of the references didn't mean much more to me than "random funny name" as a kid, and i think it might have been better that way.

Ha, I cut this one out of the newspaper. I may even still have the color version in some scrapbook in the attic.

Joke's not that funny, but it cracked me up that the "Doonesbury" of Bloom County was called "Those Darn Cats".

in many cases the funny names were the actual extent of the humor, e.g. Caspar Weinberger

Start over!

Joke's not that funny, but it cracked me up that the "Doonesbury" of Bloom County was called "Those Darn Cats".

― pplains, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 3:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's a reference to this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/doones0685.gif?uuid=tu2tIt5SEeCEdSrrIfoXWw

Where in that does it say "Those Darn Cats" ?

It doesn't; it's just a reference to Trudeau's Sinatra-bashing strips (which went on for a week, got dropped from a couple of papers, and were actually big-ish news at the time).

lol at the jane pauley joke; she's married to garry trudeau.

lol @ "alleged human"

I like it but it's purely nostalgia, I can't see it appealing to anybody who didn't live through the 80s

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, March 11, 2015 12:00 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I didn't live through the 80s but it's the only way I know anything about the 80s

I reread several of my old books last year -- they've aged fine. The animals help.

i was like to die laughing when i was 9 and reading the steve dallas quitting smoking saga for the first time

luckily i survived

Excellent example of undated story ("WHERE'D YOU HIDE'EM????" *bouncing on toilet semi-nude while tied to chair*)

Also: Opus' nose job.

Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu)
Posted: March 11, 2015 at 8:58:27 AM
imho this aged incredibly poorly

Bullshit

yeah, it's always been terrible

I feel sad for you

Oh my God I bought this immediately.

One of Breathed's greatest gags I will love until I die are characters repearedly whapping another one on the head to emphasize some point.

A Basselope gap!

http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=83465

http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=83927

http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/2010/03/25

Middle of the road, man, it stanks
Let's run over Lionel Richie with a tank

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hm

https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1004028256294594

Bloom County with computer lettering = gtfo

hopefully he hires some kid to put these on a real website

Binkley?

dud: the Big Bang/cosmology/theoretical physics skepticism, the preponderance of new strips that are just "we're living in a nightmare world but ya know it's the little things that make life worth living!!"
classic: most everything else

I recently started a new job... in a meeting of my workgroup, everyone went around the table, introduced themselves, and announced what they had “wanted to do when they grew up,” as kids. (Yeah, I know.)

When it was my turn, I said that I had wanted to be a lawyer — entirely because of Steve Dallas from “Bloom County.”

It landed with a thud. Not a single face in the room, whether Gen-Xer or Millennial, showed even a glimmer of recognition, comprehension, or interest.

I do know some kids who like reading the comic pages in the paper, what's left of them. And to be fair, I have no idea what comics they are reading.

I guess I was expecting a chorus of appreciation from at least others around my age.

tough room, eh?

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itt: penguins that can't tell an adage from a metaphor. and can't tell an adage, either.

I’m on vacation this week but this was uploaded to FB on the 11th. I hope you’re enjoying these as much as me! pic.twitter.com/ZoUiD5TitN

— Bloom County (@bloomcounty) July 13, 2021

Figures I can’t find a clean online scan or a Bloom County strip that references Ivana Trump today

feel like there was an expansive sunday-type comic in which opus and milo careened through crazy dimensions until opus made it crash to a halt with milo accusing him of being a literalist

cannot find it online; have i imagined this?

don’t remember but sounds like a calvin & hobbes strip too

Yep! It's in one of my BC books