I love Bloom County, wasn’t a big fan of OutLand tho’. Matter of fact, I have every Bloom County book ever written. I’ve read them so many times, you could show me the first panel of any strip, and I could quote almost verbatim the rest of the strip.
Now where is lolagranola at?
“Dab some listerine on the ol’ pits. A little Right Guard for the breath… Yeah… I’m a little nervous.”
I have an Opus christmas ornament on my divider behind my computer at home…Bloom County was my favorite strip, I too had all the books…“smelling faintly of herring”
“like the toes of Casper Weinberger”
Of course! The McD’s strips! My favorite of those features Opus & Mr. Limekiller patiently listening to the teenager rattle off the menu, then deciding, “Let’s go get a McPizza!”
Then there’s Steve’s heavy metal band with Opus playing “weighty brass”. When Rosebud saw Opus dressed like a member of KISS, the following exchange resulted:
Rosebud: “The Hottentots are running amok!”
Opus: “No, it’s just us. Band practice broke up early.”
Rosebud: “The Hottentots are running amok in the music business.”
Milo vs Opus
(Bloom County Meadow, candidates on stools before podiums. Sign which reads “to
Day: Practice Debate”)
Milo: I understand that my opponent supports the 55 M.P.H. speed limit.
Opus: Saves 500 lives a year! I fully support saving lives.
Milo: Then he’d support the saving of another 10,000 lives by lowering the limit to 40 M.P.H.
Opus: 40?
Milo: Or to 20 … Saving 30,000 lives a year.
Opus: Gee… 20 is pretty slow.
Milo: Apparently my opponent would send 30,000 men, women, and children to fiery, mangled deaths just so he can zoom along to his manicurist at 55.
Opus: I DON’T HAVE A MANICURIST!
Milo: He probably doesn’t. Most mass murderers don’t. Hitler didn’t.
Opus: stop it! Stop It! STOP IT! (bangs on podium)
Milo: Rebuttal?
Opus: (frazzled) What?
Milo: Give your rebuttal.
Opus: Uh… Bush is a wimp.
(Opus’ washroom, opus in tub in technicolor rub-a-dub hair shield)
Narrator: The candidate retires to the tub…comforted in the knowledge that even “The Gipper” never really sounded totally sober without note cards, either.
I’m still waiting for the Bloom County movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Opus to come out
I’ve read the books so many times over and over again that I really need to go out and buy the complete collection again. Pages falling out. Complete sections missing. It’s pretty sad.
I do have a comic … or rather original art … hanging outside my cube here. It has Oliver is his quest for the long-tailed hamster shouting out “But the calculations were correct!!”. Being a programmer, I understand the feeling very well.
I wish my record of Billy and the Boingers still worked
Now, I know that’s not true. At one point, I actually was cutting the comics out of the paper and putting them in my own day by day scrapbook (me? fanatical??? nevah!). When the book that contained those strips came out, the published strips were in a different order, some of the wording had been changed, and there weren’t as many.
One specific example was when Oliver built a working model of an atomic bomb for his science project. That series lasted at least a couple days; however, only one strip ended up in the book (“Okay everybody, fire drill!” - “Keep your jets cooled, I got the safety on.”).
Berke Breathed’s attraction has always escaped me.
I know that he got a boost from “replacing” the far surperior Calvin & Hobbes strip, but after that I cannot fathom his continued popularity.
Bloom County rocked, until Breathed started to get fanatical about the animal rights stuff. But even with that he did some funny stuff.
One of my favorite characters, who unfortunately appeared VERY rarely, was Luther Henry Putgrass the ranting TV reparirman. His was hilarious, but I won’t attempt to quote his ramblings here.