Bloom County C/D?

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

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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

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!'"

Thank you all for observing this playlet entitled "Adorno Meets a Student."

Breathed talks about stuff and things.

“The major regret in my cartooning life is I didn’t get to know him,” Breathed said, pointing up to the framed art from a “Peanuts” strip signed by the late Charles Schulz. “He sent me that as a get-well gift when I broke my back. This was a time when I was a pariah to the comics old guard. It was an opening, and I let the opportunity pass. Just a few months ago, I went up and visited with his wife, Jeannie, and I was tearful leaving. I would have loved to have been able to call him my friend.”

In a small way I feel the same, I always wanted to have sent Schulz a brief notice of thanks and appreciation for his work while he was still alive, and I always regretted not doing so. Something like this, if I were in Breathed's shoes, would probably hang with me the rest of my days.

Also:

Breathed also wishes he could connect with Bill Watterson, the “Calvin and Hobbes” artist who was Breathed’s fan, friend and rival but who now does everything he can to stay off the grid. “There are people searching for him, reporters, documentary-makers and fans, but he doesn’t want to be found,” Breathed said, sounding like the last member of a dysfunctional tribe. “I have a box of letters from him. You should see the drawings on them. He is a once-in-a-century talent.”

DAMMIT. (In that I am jealous beyond belief, as jealous as I am of Bob Mould having long since heard all the stuff Kevin Shields has been doing over the years but hasn't released.)

I was a fule for Far Side. I will stan for Doonesbury any day of the week. I found Calvin and Hobbes endlessly classic. Bloom County? I never understood the attraction. It rose half an elbow above mediocrity imo.

BB talks about movies and things. 'It was all better back then' etc.

Friggin' awesome!

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Hahah nice

It's adorable.