# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/21 "2003-11-25T19:15:12Z")
I liked it. It felt like old times. “Guido regurgitated a squid.” Priceless. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/22 "2003-11-25T22:39:27Z")
Oh, there is hope again, even under the Bush administration there is hope again! Opus lives! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/23 "2003-11-25T22:55:42Z")
I thought this thread was about wine, and if not, then about music. I’d totally forgotten the penguin. I don’t get the local paper, but I’m sure that eventually it will be available in paperback book form and there will be merchandizing and more merchandizing. Did they bring back any of the other characters? Aacccckkk! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/24 "2003-11-25T23:12:24Z")
Yep, he’s still the World’s Most Expressive Penguin. ---
**Author:** ![FitzSquick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19b73/32.png) [@FitzSquick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FitzSquick)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/25 "2003-11-26T02:30:17Z")
My favorite Opus quote: " Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts?" ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/26 "2003-11-26T03:16:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Did they bring back any of the other characters? Not yet, but we’ve only seen one strip so who knows. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/27 "2003-11-26T04:08:25Z")
We Iowans of a certain age regard Breathed as one of our own because he was living in Iowa City when his first strip came out. But then we Iowans think that anybody with even the most tangential connection to the State as one of our own, including people who just drove down Interstate 80 and did no more than empty their bladder in one of the rest stops. John Steinbeck peed in Newton, we proclaim with joy and pride, see what a great place this is. At any rate, it’s nice to see him back in publication, although I have my doubts about the air-brush quality of the color work. ---
**Author:** ![DeepPurple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@DeepPurple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeepPurple)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/28 "2003-12-12T20:05:09Z")
[/hijack]Actually, I attended the Univ of Iowa with John Steinbeck, strangely enough, he lived on the same floor of Burge with Walt Whitman. What? Wasn’t John Steinbeck was born in Keystone?[/hijack] OT, I read Opus, and I smell Outland, so sad I want to smell fishnuts instead. ---
**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:** [December 12, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/29 "2003-12-12T22:36:10Z")
So far, we’ve had three strips, of which two focus on Opus fantasizing about being ministrated to by women. Isn’t this pretty early in the run to be recycling ideas? This does not bode well. ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/30 "2003-12-12T22:39:53Z")
[Here’s the first one.](http://waxy.org/random/images/weblog/new_opus_comic.jpg) Anyone have an online link to the one(s) that followed? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/31 "2003-12-21T02:11:31Z")
Are we excited yet? I’m underwhelmed. But not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/32 "2003-12-21T15:27:04Z")
I’m also underwhelmed, [b[RTFirefly\*\*. The artwork has been beautiful but the strip itself hasn’t shown me much. Since it’s a Sunday-only strip Breathed is going to have to pick up the pace _a lot_ if he expects us to keep reading. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/33 "2003-12-21T17:28:20Z")
Anyone care to make a bet? Since Opus got married to a troll today, his dumping her will be the pretext for returning to Bloom County/Outland/wherever Antarctica isn’t… ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/34 "2003-12-21T17:29:41Z")
Bill the Cat’s head was in an eariler strip, so maybe… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/35 "2003-12-21T18:00:29Z")
[cynical]Other _Bloom County_ characters will return, if only because Breathed will run out of ideas. He did the same thing in _Outland_. I think he took _Bloom County_ for granted, and I think he’s taking it for granted that he can waltz in and get a new strip whenever he wants (which, of course, he can). I don’t think his heart’s in the new strip, and I don’t think he’s ever realized how much _BC_ was a phenomenon of lightning striking just as much as it was his talent.[cynical] ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/36 "2003-12-21T18:25:24Z")
New tagline test! ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/opus/214879/37 "2003-12-21T18:26:59Z")
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