# Hmmm, looks like Bloom County may be coming back **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972 "2015-07-12T21:01:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/1 "2015-07-12T21:01:48Z")
> **[Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County](https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed)** > > Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County. 709,801 likes · 18,901 talking about this. Cartoonist, novelist, illustrator, screenwriter and producer Or so Breathed teased on his FB page today. I was a big fan back when this was fresh and new, but I’m not sure how easy it would be for him to get up to speed again. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/2 "2015-07-12T21:08:45Z")
That would be awesome. I was a big fan in the 80s, even though many of the jokes went over my childish head. ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/3 "2015-07-12T21:11:16Z")
IIRC, he went on a hiatus when he halted the strip. I don’t recall it being said it was permanent. Of course, that was a long time ago and I could be completely wrong. ---
**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:** [July 12, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/4 "2015-07-12T21:27:10Z")
It’s already come back twice, and neither of the comebacks was anywhere near as good as the original. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/5 "2015-07-12T21:38:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It’s already come back twice Sort of. Both Outland and Opus started out as different strips with different concepts, but both quickly drifted back to being just Bloom County writ small–i.e., without the full ensemble–but drawn large. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/6 "2015-07-12T21:47:04Z")
> [@Southern\_Yankee](#): > > IIRC, he went on a hiatus when he halted the strip. I don’t recall it being said it was permanent. Of course, that was a long time ago and I could be completely wrong. Which ending are we talking about? Breathed ended _Bloom County_ in 1989. The ending for that was that Donald Trump had bought the comic strip and fired all the characters. There was a goodbye party where the characters talked about finding new jobs in other comic strips. A month after _Bloom County_ ended, Breathed started _Outland_. Opus joined that strip and eventually several other _Bloom County_ characters appeared as well. Breathed ended _Outland_ in 1995 with a resolution for several of the characters’ story arcs, including Opus going to Antarctica and being reunited with his mother. Breathed started _Opus_ in 2003. Once again, there were several returning characters from _Bloom County_. In 2008, Breathed decided to end the strip and the final storyline was that the characters were going to die and get to choose where they would spend eternity. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/7 "2015-07-12T21:52:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It’s already come back twice, and neither of the comebacks was anywhere near as good as the original. Technically, the original was _The Academia Waltz_, which was Breathed’s college comic strip. It ran from 1978 to 1979 and ended when Breathed graduated (he started _Bloom County_ in 1980). But there is continuity because Steve Dallas was the main character of _The Academia Waltz_. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/8 "2015-07-12T21:52:52Z")
He’s produced some well-regarded children’s books and one of them became a really unfortunate movie. In the current publishing environment, I wonder how launching a new comic strip can be anything but throwing good money after bad? ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/9 "2015-07-12T21:59:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Which ending are we talking about? > > Breathed ended _Bloom County_ in 1989. The ending for that was that Donald Trump had bought the comic strip and fired all the characters. There was a goodbye party where the characters talked about finding new jobs in other comic strips. > > A month after _Bloom County_ ended, Breathed started _Outland_. Opus joined that strip and eventually several other _Bloom County_ characters appeared as well. Breathed ended _Outland_ in 1995 with a resolution for several of the characters’ story arcs, including Opus going to Antarctica and being reunited with his mother. > > Breathed started _Opus_ in 2003. Once again, there were several returning characters from _Bloom County_. In 2008, Breathed decided to end the strip and the final storyline was that the characters were going to die and get to choose where they would spend eternity. I was thinking about _Bloom County_, but my memory of the ending of the strip was way off. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/10 "2015-07-13T02:21:53Z")
Sounds like he plans a _Bloom County_ webcomic, where he doesn’t have to deal with publishers or censors. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/11 "2015-07-13T03:34:20Z")
Yes! One step closer to my dream of being able to buy a Bill/Opus 2016 T-shirt! ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/12 "2015-07-13T04:45:09Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Yes! One step closer to my dream of being able to buy a Bill/Opus 2016 T-shirt! I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find my “This time, why not the worst?” t-shirt buried in some drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/13 "2015-07-13T11:09:28Z")
And it’s back to the roots!!! [Yay!](https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/photos/a.114529165244512.10815.108793262484769/1004028256294594/?type=1) ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/14 "2015-07-13T14:11:21Z")
Time to go and look for a can of ‘Chicken and Trumplings’ soup. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/15 "2015-07-13T17:24:15Z")
I’m old enuf to have read Bloom County from its inception. I’ve never seen it as anything but a sad Doonesbury rip-off, with funny animal whimsy laid on. Yes, I’ve enjoyed many of the strips, but I have loathed many more, including anything with Bill the Cat in it. I can live without a reboot. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/16 "2015-07-13T18:14:11Z")
Jeez. He’s doing it again?! Having seen this exact scenario play out twice already, (_Outland_ & _Opus_), I’ll give the new strip about a year before it dies quietly. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/17 "2015-07-13T18:38:37Z")
I loved Bloom County back in the day and it was my go-to for political and underpantsed animals in a meadow humor. I did see some of Outland and a bit of Opus but they came out when I wasn’t inclined or able to see them daily. That was a nice restart of it today. I hope he’s keeping in online or using some other method of circumventing censors. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/18 "2015-07-13T18:46:27Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > I did see some of Outland and a bit of Opus but they came out when I wasn’t inclined or able to see them daily. Nobody was able to see them daily. They were both weekly strips. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/19 "2015-07-13T19:09:23Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It’s already come back twice, and neither of the comebacks was anywhere near as good as the original. _Bloom County: The Phantom Silliness!_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972/20 "2015-07-13T19:11:58Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I bet if I looked hard enough, I could find my “This time, why not the worst?” t-shirt buried in some drawer. I had “Ahead Warp Zillion!” (Dr. John and his animal friends barreling along in his wheelchair the “USS Enterpoop”). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hmmm-looks-like-bloom-county-may-be-coming-back/724972.md?page=2)