# Berke Breathed is finally regaining his old brilliance **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994 "2004-06-12T17:35:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/1 "2004-06-12T17:35:14Z")
Yes, I know that I’m a bit late starting this thread, but my mom mails the Sunday comics to me, and there’s no legal way to see _Opus_ strips online. So I read them almost a week late. That said, I think that _Opus_ is starting to reach the old _Bloom County_ level again. Up to now, the strip has had high points (Binkley’s first kiss) and low points, but the high points have been relatively sparse. May 31, however, with Opus breaking up, was pure gold, and then on June 7 we see Bill the Cat back (and running for office, to boot!). Since I think that a lot of the weakness of the strip was the lack of the other old regulars (or at least _any_ regulars other than Opus), I’m feeling very optimistic about this development. ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/2 "2004-06-12T17:40:18Z")
**Chronos** , you are making me feel totally deprived. Do you know which papers in the US run it? Does anyone? Please? I miss my Bloom County fix. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/3 "2004-06-12T18:59:15Z")
Sorry, but I think it totally sucks, and I can’t imagine why they put it on the front of my Sunday comics. I was such an early-days fan of Bloom County too. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/4 "2004-06-12T19:12:30Z")
Opus runs in the Sunday Indianapolis Star. > **[IndyStar: Indianapolis Star, Indiana news, breaking news and sports](https://www.indystar.com)** > > The source for Indianapolis, Indiana news, breaking news, weather, sports and things to do. Our hero has landed a job as a cartoonist at a newspaper. He’s got a Segway scooter and a sleazy room somewhere. In last week’s episode, a group of fatcat Neo-Cons are looking for a pliable candidate for mayor. “Oh, no,” thinks Opus, “not…him!” Yes! In the last panel, there’s Bill the Cat, working in a Garfield suit, but passed out, with the Garf-head off. A little kid is crying, “Garfield is dead, Mommy!” Oh, yes, Berkeley Breathed is back. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/5 "2004-06-12T19:52:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Our hero has landed a job as a cartoonist at a newspaper. _Had_ landed. Remember, the GPS describes him as a “recently-fired cartoonist”. Apparently he didn’t weather that phone call from the Head Honcho very well. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/6 "2004-06-12T20:28:54Z")
Any chance Breathed will turn _Outland_ into a daily strip? Pretty please? ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2004, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/7 "2004-06-12T21:59:55Z")
Very doubtful. Coming up with six gags a week is pretty tough. Besides, BB has convinced himself that he’s committing art on the Sunday pages, with big panels and a color palette that most newspapers can’t handle. I was a very big fan of his work. Still am. I’ve read his old stuff and it still holds up. But he recycling the old characters and old jokes. This Sunday (6/13), Bill the Cat shows up, and the whole strip is of the two of them meeting. _yawn_ BTW: He’s in the Harrisburg Patriot-News. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/berke-breathed-is-finally-regaining-his-old-brilliance/249994/8 "2004-06-13T02:18:05Z")
Stockton Record has it. It’s gotten up to not dreadful.