― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
CLASSIC
― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Friday, 20 January 2006 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
gobsmackingly classic; so much of my humor is BC-indebted.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― maura (maura), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
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"
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― no bones, Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link
and then calvin & hobbes came around and i haven't thought of it since...
― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Classic.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:49 (eighteen years ago) link
.......
Opus: "38."Steve Dallas: "Give me a fuckin' cigarette before I stick you in a blender."
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link
"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!"
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I love the early stuff, but at this point, Doonesbury is just a terrible reminder of what it used to be.
― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Outland was enjoyable enough, Opus I've barely seen.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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)
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link
"U Stink" seems more like pre-synth Van Halen, only with far more vocal sneering.
Your comments?
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link
"HE WAS SLEEPING!""I WAS NOT! MY EYELIDS WERE JUST RESTING!"
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:00 (eighteen years ago) link
I figure the recent ones will be better in collected form.
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:26 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, or where he talked about literally taping his eyelids open to finish strips in the early years.
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:30 (eighteen years ago) link
also dud: his frequently voiced opinion that charles schulz should've retired 30 years before he did - pretty rich coming from the guy who's "retired" more often than the fucking who!
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Have you been following B.D.'s arc at all, John? I never thought that a storyline about someone having their leg blown off could be that funny.
(Mark has become incredibly tiresome and should be killed, though. Dissing Cole Porter = bullet to the forehead.)
― Dan (Also, Alex's College Application Process Has Been Awesome) Perry (Dan Perry, Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Still, this is the run that made me actively hate the character Mark Slackmeyer. Now I want him D-E-D dead.
― Dan (Preferably With Knives) Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen 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
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
― 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
https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1004028256294594
― example (crüt), Monday, 13 July 2015 14:30 (eight years ago) link
Bloom County with computer lettering = gtfo
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 00:11 (eight years ago) link
hopefully he hires some kid to put these on a real website
― cat-haver (silby), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:17 (eight years ago) link
Binkley?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:20 (eight years ago) link
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
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― stan by me (morrisp), Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 July 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
I guess I was expecting a chorus of appreciation from at least others around my age.
― stan by me (morrisp), Saturday, 6 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
tough room, eh?
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 6 July 2019 18:11 (four years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/45/6f/0e456f75fe3d4df42aa1f7c2b438d41f.gif
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
itt: penguins that can't tell an adage from a metaphor. and can't tell an adage, either.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
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
― lukas, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
Figures I can’t find a clean online scan or a Bloom County strip that references Ivana Trump today
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 14 July 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
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?
― mookieproof, Sunday, 14 January 2024 05:04 (three months ago) link
don’t remember but sounds like a calvin & hobbes strip too
― sknybrg, Sunday, 14 January 2024 08:06 (three months ago) link
Yep! It's in one of my BC books
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2024 12:26 (three months ago) link