# Opus 7/15/07 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861 "2007-07-15T15:23:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DirtyHippy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtyhippy/32/107_2.png) [@DirtyHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyHippy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/1 "2007-07-15T15:23:09Z")
Is that Bill the Cat I see in the background? I would love it if he came back. DH ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/2 "2007-07-15T15:24:01Z")
\ Did Bloom County come back & I did not know it? ---
**Author:** ![DirtyHippy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtyhippy/32/107_2.png) [@DirtyHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyHippy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/3 "2007-07-15T15:36:34Z")
It’s Opus now, on Sundays. It is also on [Salon.com](http://Salon.com), where you can sit through a short ad if you don’t have a subscription. DH ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/4 "2007-07-15T15:41:38Z")
[QUOTE=DirtyHippy] Is that Bill the Cat I see in the background? I would love it if he came back. [/QUOTE] Yeah, it sure looks like Bill. I could do without him, though. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/5 "2007-07-15T15:58:11Z")
Where are you seeing Bill the Cat? Is this a case of the online version missing frames that are in the print version? Because I don’t see Bill anywhere in [this](http://www.comics.com/wash/opus/). ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/6 "2007-07-15T16:25:19Z")
That link is a week behind. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/7 "2007-07-15T16:41:02Z")
Bill has been popping up right along. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/8 "2007-07-15T16:45:21Z")
In the last panel, you definitely see it’s Bill. Or Bill’s severed head floating in the pond. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/9 "2007-07-15T16:50:31Z")
Binkley is back too, with no explanation either for his return or why he hasn’t aged like Steve Dallas has. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/10 "2007-07-15T16:58:27Z")
Ack! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/11 "2007-07-15T17:20:27Z")
[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder] In the last panel, you definitely see it’s Bill. Or Bill’s severed head floating in the pond. [/QUOTE] And what looks like Bill’s filthy hinder, sticking out of the water in the first panel. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/12 "2007-07-15T18:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=ASAKMOTSD] \ Did Bloom County come back & I did not know it? [/QUOTE] Berke Breathed brought back (hey, alliteration!) Opus as a Sunday-only strip in November 2003. Bill the Cat was the first of Opus’ old Bloom County friends to appear in his new strip. He even ran for mayor of Bloom County, but lost the election because of an affair with Paris Hilton. [Opus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_%28comic_strip%29) ---
**Author:** ![DirtyHippy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtyhippy/32/107_2.png) [@DirtyHippy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyHippy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus-7-15-07/411861/13 "2007-07-15T19:50:29Z")
It’s been in the local paper here only since about the beginning of this year. I guess I didn’t notice Bill before today.