Ack…
Ack…
guess who my fave was?
I don’t know. When they started running it again, you could only get it on My Comics, and I wasn’t subscribed so I never looked.
I don’t care if it DOES suck! It’s Opus fer cryin’ out loud! Bloom County was the greatest strip ever and Berke Breathed is the greatest stripper… sorry so, Outland wasn’t as good… it was still head an shoulders better than anything in the paper today…
Long Live OPUS!
Oop ack!
I just want them to bring back Mike “Mad Dog” Binkley, his anxiety closet, and Milo Bloom himself.
Come to think of it, I also hope they can get Oliver Wendell Jones back. Last I heard there were still busing him into “The Family Circus.”
Thanks, Algernon. I hope so too, since he’s coming back whether I like it or not. I’m just not optimistic.
I’d have to disagree there. The two best cast members were Milo and the Major, especially when they were playing off of each other. Remember the Major and the cockroaches? Remember Milo and the Major at the White House dinner? Remember them hunting for liberals? (“Welfare! Solar power! No nukes!”)
We didn’t see much of the Major, if anything, after about late 1982. Without the Major, the strip lost something important, IMHO.
Yay! Oliver Wendell Holmes was my favourite. Or maybe Steve Dallas. Depended on whether I was feeling morally ambiguous or just plain evil.
I look forward to seeing anything that Mr. Breathed offers. Bloom County managed the trick of being both relevant and universal. Oh, and pants-wettingly funny, of course.
RTFirefly, you misunderstood my sentence, but only because I wrote it so poorly. What I meant was Opus was best as part of an ensemble cast, rather than being the primary character in Outland.
Opus was not my favorite character in Bloom County (sorry Opus1). I actually have a hard time picking a favorite because again, it was the interactions between the characters that was brilliant. My personal favorite is the snake incident.
Jones.
Algernon - I did indeed. My apologies.
Thpbppttt!
From the Opus page at the link NCB so kindly provided:
I do believe Berke is back!
I never thought of Bloom County as an ensemble–I always saw Opus and the young boys as the stars, and everyone else as supporting or background characters.
Best single Bloom County line ever:
"A carton of Camels by noon or permanent penguin pâté!!"
(Steve Dallas, going cold turkey [or should that be cold penguin?])
I believe that would still make it a ensemble.
Only if you think of an ensemble as something in which every player works in concert with every other player. The difference between a star vehicle and an ensemble is that one has stars and the other does not; therefore if Opus and the boys are the stars, with the rest being supporting characters, then it’s not a true ensemble.
Let’s guillotine Grampa,
Guilliotine Grampa,
Guilliotine Grampa,
And put Grandma in the soup.
Oh, and “Clearasil messiah from the shelf” doesn’t really rhyme with “zapping zits from here to hell.”
A word to the wise.
At least in the earlier days, the various characters all got “air time” and their own sub-plots. Only later on did Opus sort of steal the show (to the detriment of the strip in my opinion). That is why I characterize Bloom County as an ensemble endeavor.