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
I actually broke down crying at much too old of an age when they cancelled the strip. I had all of the collections and understood a lot of it. Or at least, I was prompted to ask my folks about the stuff I didn't get. That reminds me, I should probably get around to wikipediaing Gary Hart or o these days.
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
I hadn't really had anything I loved cancelled on me before, is why. Like, I managed to grow out of Dukes of Hazard before they pulled the plug on that etc. etc. You move through phases pretty rapidly as a kid, and Bloom County was one of the first things that I had stuck with for a few years.
― how's life, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
when they cancelled the strip.
those bastards
― ( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
breathed's awful later work ought to make anyone glad he stopped doing BC while we still had fond memories of it.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
nothing but urges from hell!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/blmd850911.gif
oh how things changed
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pk0wdYAiFCY/TuTx81ZYNoI/AAAAAAAANLE/eRW9q7ARR5o/s1600/BloomCountVol2_19820929small.jpg
― Ze Meadow Morals Squad (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 July 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/F3FoXiX.png
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Wednesday, 3 July 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
Complete digital library of Bloom County / Outland for $16https://www.humblebundle.com/books
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
imho this aged incredibly poorly
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
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, 11 March 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
^^^ yup
― DJP, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:00 (nine years ago) link
I'd've thought Donna Rice jokes would age like a fine wine.
― Eggnog On My Kangol (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
I mean, it's basically like watching almost any '80s SNL political sketch.
― Eggnog On My Kangol (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
"Well, I'd be the President's little dumplin' anyday!" Phyllis Schlafly said earlier.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
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
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
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)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:11 (nine years ago) link
i generally do okay on Watergate jeopardy categories due to doonesbury paperbacks"that's GUILTY, GUILTY GUILTY!"
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
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".
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
in many cases the funny names were the actual extent of the humor, e.g. Caspar Weinberger
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
Start over!
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
Where in that does it say "Those Darn Cats" ?
― pplains, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
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).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
lol at the jane pauley joke; she's married to garry trudeau.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:27 (nine years ago) link
lol @ "alleged human"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― stately, plump buck angel (silby), Thursday, 12 March 2015 01:44 (nine years ago) link
I reread several of my old books last year -- they've aged fine. The animals help.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
i was like to die laughing when i was 9 and reading the steve dallas quitting smoking saga for the first time
― adam, Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:31 (nine years ago) link
luckily i survived
― adam, Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:32 (nine years ago) link
Excellent example of undated story ("WHERE'D YOU HIDE'EM????" *bouncing on toilet semi-nude while tied to chair*)
Also: Opus' nose job.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:43 (nine years ago) link
Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu)Posted: March 11, 2015 at 8:58:27 AMimho this aged incredibly poorly
Bullshit
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 March 2015 06:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's always been terrible
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 12 March 2015 06:57 (nine years ago) link
I feel sad for you
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 March 2015 07:08 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 12 March 2015 08:36 (nine years ago) link
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
― Delbert Gravy (kingfish), Thursday, 12 March 2015 08:45 (nine years ago) link
Middle of the road, man, it stanksLet's run over Lionel Richie with a tank
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:09 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xIfFAZ9.png
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
hm
― cat-haver (silby), Sunday, 12 July 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link