# Opus!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 23, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879 "2003-11-23T20:08:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/1 "2003-11-23T20:08:55Z")
I picked up Sunday’s NY _Daily News_. Skipped the Michael Jackson blah blah blah. Glanced the bad news in politics and local sports. Then I went to the comics pages. And in it is like a new renaissance. _Opus_ Yes, Berkley Breathed’s penguin is back! And some other strips like _Out of the Gene Pool_ welcomed him back. The days of Mallard Fillmore are over! ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/2 "2003-11-23T21:30:30Z")
Yay!!! ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/3 "2003-11-23T21:37:16Z")
If you get the LA Times, there was a detailed article about Berkley Breathed and his new comic, Opus, recently. I think you can read it online, but you have to subscribe. ---
**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:** [November 23, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/4 "2003-11-23T22:19:02Z")
It really ticks me off that this isn’t online somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/5 "2003-11-23T22:27:07Z")
According to Washington Post comics [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/comics/](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/style/comics/) “Opus,” a new strip by “Bloom County” and “Outland” creator Berkeley Breathed, will appear in The Washington Post on Sunday’s beginning Nov. 23. The comic will be available only in newspapers Bummer. [whine] Glad this is an actual sighting and not a rumor thread, cause I started (as far as I know) the 1st rumor thread, and as many of my threads do, dies and then a new thread started about a week late, and possibly another one a week after that [/whine] Brian ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/6 "2003-11-24T02:48:43Z")
it was wonderful!! Fish guts! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/7 "2003-11-24T03:15:58Z")
My newspaper, the Portland _Oregonian_, dropped Hi and Lois on Sundays to make room for it, so we were twice blessed! ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/8 "2003-11-24T03:41:15Z")
I hope his heart is in this. ---
**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:** [November 24, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/9 "2003-11-24T04:01:53Z")
There were interviews with Breathed both on Salon and the Washington Post site. Don’t have the links handy, but a search of Breathed should reveal it. In Harrisburg, they dropped a couple of negligable kid-oriented educational strips to fix Opus in, so we still get our fix of Cathy, Garfield, Mary Worth and other shining lights of the cartoon industrial complex. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/10 "2003-11-24T04:46:21Z")
I read the comics page today and carefully went out of my way to save Opus for last. Very funny, the only comic that got an honest guffaw out of me in the whole section. Thank god he’s back. I only wish he was doing a weekly section. Here’s the transcript of an online discussion that Breathed had on [washingtonpost.com](http://washingtonpost.com): [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47999-2003Nov16.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47999-2003Nov16.html) ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/11 "2003-11-24T04:49:15Z")
Oops, I meant I wish he was doing a daily strip, as opposed to weekly. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/12 "2003-11-24T05:29:30Z")
Great to see Opus again! I still miss Steve Dallas and Bill the Cat _ACK_ ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/13 "2003-11-24T06:30:14Z")
It’ll be nice to have Opus back. He’s been missed. But – _Sundays only?_ Um, didn’t we start this way with Outland, toddle along for a while, and then expire with a whimper? (Honestly, my memory is a bit vague on what became of Outland. Anyone…?) The opener was weak: A 1/3 page comic for a fish-breath joke? C’mon, Berke! You once had 8x better material in a single panel. That having been said: welcome back Bloom County ( III! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/14 "2003-11-24T06:59:45Z")
It’s not available online??? :eek: How 20th century… ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/15 "2003-11-24T11:51:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pesch \* > \*\*There were interviews with Breathed both on Salon and the Washington Post site. Don’t have the links handy, but a search of Breathed should reveal it. > > In Harrisburg, they dropped a couple of negligable kid-oriented educational strips to fix Opus in, so we still get our fix of Cathy, Garfield, Mary Worth and other shining lights of the cartoon industrial complex. \*\* I bought the Patriot yesterday just to read “Opus”. I didn’t even notice the educational strips missing. Just pure, fish-guts, penguiny goodness. Ahhh, life is worth living again. 🙂 Robin ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/16 "2003-11-24T12:48:35Z")
We’ll have to see if it keeps up the standard. I notice that Breathed is signing his name forwards again. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/17 "2003-11-24T13:16:32Z")
“Oh, and I suppose you’re exactly where you thought you’d be in ten years?” 😛 Long Live Da Ope! ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/18 "2003-11-24T14:13:23Z")
Sort of ironic that a guy who so habitually railed against the “shrinking” of comic strips insisted upon papers giving his new strip almost a half-page. Guess what they had to do to most of the other strips in the funny pages, Berke? Anyway I am looking forward to Breathed pulling out the daggers for the current administration, as he did so lustily for Reagan and Bush I. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/19 "2003-11-24T14:34:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTA \* > \*\*Sort of ironic that a guy who so habitually railed against the “shrinking” of comic strips insisted upon papers giving his new strip almost a half-page. Guess what they had to do to most of the other strips in the funny pages, Berke? > \*\* Bill Waterson did the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/20 "2003-11-24T14:58:40Z")
The artwork was up to snuff, even if the punchline was a bit weak. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879.md?page=2)