Bloom County C/D?

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

?????????

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

Did John and Exene ever sing as wrenching a statement of marital compromise as "U Stink But I Love You"?

Ah, Mucky Pup. Was there ever a New Jersey punk band more suited to the listening habits of 10-year-old boys? I think not. I think not.

Love Bloom County so much. Have the Flexi-disc still in it's relevant book. I never kept up with the newer ones, hopefully they'll be out on book soon.

Just Classic.

what, no penguin copilot?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5QI4ESioUM&feature=related

no one cares about animated Opus? :(

Not me. Some things just aren't meant to be made.

Don't wanna see Calvin & Hobbes animated either.

I liked A Wish For Wings That Work, but it's a one-off. Just enough, no more.

The animated Opus movie got axed this last summer, according to the Wiki.

Opus' voice in the special didn't work for me. I remember taping that special upon its first airing.

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The spitting image of Steve Dallas just walked in the library. (No cigarette but he had the sunglasses.)

before or after the Gephardtization?

Pre. It was very 1982.

they just published the very last Opus strip

Entire collection to be reprinted:

....The Bloom County Library will also contain a series of “Context Pages” sprinkled throughout the volumes. These pages will provide perspective for the reader, presenting a variety of real-life events and personalities that were contemporary at the time of original publication.

so that today's young'uns will know who Jeanne Kirkpatrick and Casper Weinburger were.

So long as the real-life personalities are presented in the same 'cruddy photocopy' fashion as in the original (which was definitely one of the best things about it).

Bahaha they should do context pages with every comic collection. "For context, Jiggs is a racist caricature of a horny racist."

"For context, Cathy expresses dissatisfaction with her body image in a swimsuit on a regular basis. This reflection of a negative Zeitgeist can be further interpolated via cultural expressions in a variety of liminal media across the Western world in particular in reaction to Cold War-era anxieties (taken from "I Found That Presence Medium-Rare: Hypertextuality and Expressions of Carnivorous Doubt in Monochrome Still Animation Form on the North American Continent 1950-1990 CE")"

"In other words, 'Ack!'"