Bloom County C/D?

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.

"HE WAS SLEEPING!"
"I WAS NOT! MY EYELIDS WERE JUST RESTING!"

I figure the recent ones will be better in collected form.

yeah, or where he talked about literally taping his eyelids open to finish strips in the early years.

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!

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.)

Still, this is the run that made me actively hate the character Mark Slackmeyer. Now I want him D-E-D dead.

http://www.creators.com/0108/bc/bc0110g.gif

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Idolator, your friend.

"U STINK!"

so classic. i have the flexi!!
-- maura (maura), Friday, January 20, 2006 5:43 PM (Friday, January 20, 2006 5:43 PM) Bookmark Link

i had the flexi when the book came out in 1987 or whatever, i recently came across a used copy of the book w/the flexi still in it and snapped it up post haste.

omg I never heard this

Well now you can, etc.

hurray I just salvaged my stuffed Opus the other day (he needed a washing)

you savaged your stuffed Opus???? ewww

http://i.imgur.com/xIfFAZ9.png

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?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/45/6f/0e456f75fe3d4df42aa1f7c2b438d41f.gif

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