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He needs to learn how to draw Portnoy.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:18 (twenty years ago)

The fact is that Opus looks more like a puffin than a penguin.

CLASSIC

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Friday, 20 January 2006 23:20 (twenty years ago)

obviously CLASSIC, tho it was even funnier before i knew anything about any of the people being made fun of - breathed might've made up that iacocca dude (and donald trump!) for all i knew when i was 10!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:21 (twenty years ago)

"You can lead a yak to water but you can't teach an old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke."

gobsmackingly classic; so much of my humor is BC-indebted.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:27 (twenty years ago)

the one i quote the most is probably the one where milo and binkley argue over whether coke is better than pepsi, only to conclude that both taste like MALTED BATTERY ACID.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:37 (twenty years ago)

The Steve Dallas trying to quit smoking sequence, culminating with Opus hiding in the toilet, brought young me to tears and still almost does.

― adam (adam), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:39 (twenty years ago)

so classic. i have the flexi!!

― maura (maura), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I have it too, unsurprisingly. Mucky Pup was the backing band, I think?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

J.D. -- ditto.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 20 January 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

George "Mr Sulu" Takei went on to marry Marie Osmond.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

What made me think of this was the scene where Steve Dallas is sitting on the couch in the underwear, talking to the TV.

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 (twenty years ago)

i have the flexi too. and a south american llama

― no bones, Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

YSI?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

i loved bloom county as a kid, was so disappointed when it ended.

and then calvin & hobbes came around and i haven't thought of it since...

― Mitya (mitya), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

"Why, I MUST JUST TAKE A FIRE HOSE TO 'EM!!! THANK YOU FOR NOT SMOKING!!!"

Classic.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 21 January 2006 02:30 (twenty years ago)

Hello.
I'm a Boinger:

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 (twenty years ago)

Steve Dallas (tied to chair): "How many minutes since my last smoke?"
Opus: "37."
Steve Dallas: "I'm feeling in control...mind over matter. I think I'm gonna ace this!"

.......

Opus: "38."
Steve Dallas: "Give me a fuckin' cigarette before I stick you in a blender."

― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:02 (twenty years ago)

Two other favorite quotes:

"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 (twenty years ago)

john justen i kiss you a million billion times

― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:41 (twenty years ago)

Dud. The worst of Trudeau, a total misunderstanding of what made Herriman magic, some faux-Schulz, all blended and hochhhhed up by the only good character, Bill.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:43 (twenty years ago)

See, I always thought that the worst of Trudeau was all of the times he FORGOT TO BE FUNNY AT ALL.

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 (twenty years ago)

Bosh, Doonesbury just had a few stellar weeks of B.D. talking slantwise with the therapists.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:20 (twenty years ago)

I actually haven't talked about the strip itself, have I? Megaclassic of course. First encountered it in 1981 or so and was deeply bemused, but for a long while in upstate New York I had to live by the books as they came out since when I moved there in 1982 no local paper carried it. Thankfully I returned to California and saw out its run there, and still have the final strip around somewhere.

Outland was enjoyable enough, Opus I've barely seen.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:27 (twenty years ago)

oh wow thanks for the songs

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:58 (twenty years ago)

this was the strip that got me reading, back in 1985/86 when I was in 3rd grade:

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 (twenty years ago)

holy shit, i haven't heard these songs in 20 years. "I'm a Boinger" sounds like Theater of Pain-era Vince Neil fronting the Plimsouls. This is far more punk than I ever remember.

"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 (twenty years ago)

http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/Images/fav_strip2_full.jpg

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

(womp! womp! womp!)

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

"brains behind the spandex"

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/thefeenom/blm860502.gif

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

i actually went searching for that specific strip some months ago when i signed up for a membership to ucomics.com. i absolutely can't believe i wound up finding it in all the dailies from 5-plus years, yet there it is. steve's body movements make me lose it every single time.

― Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (Plastic Gas Booby Trap), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

I loved "Bloom County" as a kid. It really influenced some of my stuff when I still harbored the idea of becoming a cartoonist.

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 (twenty years ago)

the deathtongue tour thru the desert, where the RV bounces off the road:

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

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/9451/opusxmas9mg.th.jpg

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

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

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."

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 (twenty years ago)

It wasn't until the fourth panel that I realized that the above strip wasn't from 1982.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 21 January 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

i did lose some respect for breathed after i realized how derivative he was - someone in the comics journal once said that calling him funny was like calling a shoplifter a snappy dresser.

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 (twenty years ago)

Why shouldn't you call a shoplifter a snappy dresser? They have to know what to shoplift, ferchrissakes!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

"Gorbachev sings tractors: Turnip! Buttocks!"

― Chinchilla Volapük (Captain Sleep), Saturday, 21 January 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

"Drug humor in bad taste, Roger."
"YOU read it, Tom!"

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 21 January 2006 12:01 (twenty years ago)

"PENGUIN LUST! Nothing but URGES FROM HELL!"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:47 (twenty years ago)

I love the early stuff, but at this point, Doonesbury is just a terrible reminder of what it used to be.

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 (twenty years ago)

It suddenly occurs to me that Bloom County's "no actual joke" style is directly responsible for "Get Fuzzy" and now I hate it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:36 (twenty years ago)

roffle

― truck-patch pixel farmer (my crop froze in the field) (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 21 January 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

at least when bloom county didn't have a joke it was funny!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

"...Casper Weinberger."
"Start over!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 January 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

"Go to your room, son. I'll be in with the ants and molasses presently."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

"Guns don't kill people. People kill guns. From outlaws... Anyway, it's all there in the letter."
"Verbatim."

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 21 January 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Dan, you probably know this, but the Cole Porter strips are reruns. And I think there's more of Garry in them than Mark, specifically, but yeah, they're totally off.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 21 January 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

I knew he'd done this particular riff before but I couldn't remember if this was a direct rerun or not.

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 (twenty years ago)

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lol @ "alleged human"

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:28 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

luckily i survived

― adam, Thursday, 12 March 2015 02:32 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu)
Posted: March 11, 2015 at 8:58:27 AM
imho this aged incredibly poorly

Bullshit

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 March 2015 06:53 (eleven years ago)

yeah, it's always been terrible

― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 12 March 2015 06:57 (eleven years ago)

I feel sad for you

― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Thursday, 12 March 2015 07:08 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

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 (eleven years ago)

two weeks pass...

Middle of the road, man, it stanks
Let's run over Lionel Richie with a tank

― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 March 2015 15:09 (eleven years ago)

three months pass...

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

― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 July 2015 18:41 (ten years ago)

― cat-haver (silby), Sunday, 12 July 2015 19:03 (ten years ago)

https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1004028256294594

― example (crüt), Monday, 13 July 2015 14:30 (ten years ago)

Bloom County with computer lettering = gtfo

― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 00:11 (ten years ago)

hopefully he hires some kid to put these on a real website

― cat-haver (silby), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:17 (ten years ago)

Binkley?

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 02:20 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

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 (nine years ago)

two years pass...

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

tough room, eh?

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 6 July 2019 18:11 (six years ago)

ten months pass...

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

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 18:42 (six years ago)

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 (six years ago)

one year passes...

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

Is it weird that he's drawing Calvin & Hobbes? (not really Calvin so far)

I find it weird because he's doing them Watterson-style, and because they're so beloved and missed, it feels like forbidden wish fulfillment.

― lukas, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 19:58 (four years ago)

one year passes...

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 (three years ago)

one year passes...

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 (two years ago)

don’t remember but sounds like a calvin & hobbes strip too

― sknybrg, Sunday, 14 January 2024 08:06 (two years ago)

Yep! It's in one of my BC books

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2024 12:26 (two years ago)

one year passes...

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/65/d0/ee/65d0ee42eaf8dfa0e4e300b5ce2948df.jpg

― birdistheword, Friday, 25 July 2025 00:31 (ten months ago)

https://i.imgur.com/E41K0XT.jpeg

― hungover beet poo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 July 2025 00:35 (ten months ago)

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