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Berkeley Breathed Back in the Funnies
tetrad writes "Berkeley Breathed is creating a new Sunday comic strip, according to the Washington Post. The half-page comic strip will feature Opus the penguin from Breathed's Bloom County and Outland series, and will begin Nov. 23."
Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts
Opus flies again!
Insert witty sig here.
Ack! Thpppt!
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
Bill the Cat better be coming as well. "through the sewer slime and stinky, george bush is a twinkie" Originally written for the first George Bush, but should apply to this President as well. Horray!
no god is good
I'm taking the rest of the day off to go romp through a dandelion patch!
you're all figments of my deranged imagination
Did Oliver Wendell Jones go the route of BananOSX or Bananux?
imagine a cluster of those! banana cluster..oh, never mind.
To Clarify...
Oh, wait. Wrong Berkeley.
At any rate, I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlord.
philcrissman.com.
My first thought, being a long-time Breathed fan, was to reply with "Milk me, Berkeley Breathed, milk me with everything you've got!"
Yet somehow, despite being a perfectly valid response on a syntactic level, I can't help thinking that I'd be violating at least half a dozen indecency laws... ;-)
A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
The Banana Jr. ran SCO code.
Amazing, my impression was that Opus was a throw-away character but came into his own when the he was accosted somehow the term in the subject line came out of "Prayer Temples for Hare Krishnas".
In any case, I'm halfway between wetting my pants with joy and cursing that somebody I thought went out with dignity has sold out. The cynical side of me wonders how much of the new strip was required for the Opus movie.
Personally, I enjoyed "Outland" and thought it was a reasonable successor to "Bloom County" which had a stale feeling to it in its last year. So, maybe "Opus" is a logical evolution to the strip.
In any case, I'll buy whatever local paper its in (even if its the "National Post").
myke
Mimetics Inc. Twitter
I loved Bloom County, but I'm worried that Berke Breathed is a harbinger for what the Chinese call "Interesting Times." Sky High Defense spending, Moron in the White House, tax cuts for the rich, deficits a go-go. Yep time to trot out Berke! Take cover!
This is the best Democracy money can buy?!?!?
Milo: What big game are we stalking today, Major?
Major: Liberals. Check and see what the wildlife guide says about 'em.
Panel 2:
Milo: (reading form the guide) "The Vanishing Liberal: A beast which once thundered across the American Scene in mighty herds. Recently hunted to near extinction."
Major: Gotta be one left around here somewheres... Try the Liberal Call, boy.
Panel 3:
Milo: (shouting) Welfare, Solar Power, No Nukes! ( a nearby bush rustles)
Panel 4: A liberal with bushy hair and mustache, looking much like Reiner on "All in the Family", stands up from behind the bush.
Liberal: No Nukes! No Nukes!
Panel 5: The Major fires his gun at the liberal.
Major: Gotcha!
Liberal: Gun Control! Gun Control!
Panel 6: Liberal can't be seen in tall grass.
Milo: (to the reader) It's a shame.They're more fun than buffalo.
Major: I think I wounded him!
Liberal: Ow! Socialized Medicine! Socialized Medicine!
By the way, because a penguin is the symbol of Linux, this means that Darl is going require a $699 license for every Sunday's strip.
I miss the "Dysfunctional Family Circus" website. It allowed people to brutally abuse FC comics that were missing the dialog. Something I must admit my brother and I liked to do.
It was closed down when Bill Keane complained.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
My absolute favorite Bloom County strips were when...
...was when the girl (I forget her name) asked Opus, Bill and Milquetoast to take a long hard look at the one thing that gives their miserable male lives some meaning, and each one then pulls open the waistband of his underwear and stares at his own package.