Goodbye, Opus...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

From today's LA Times...

Another great comic strip joins the never to be seen again group...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2008/10/berkeley-breath.html

:cry:

[jobycom]

1. Leave it to Berk to crack me up while saying goodbye.

"The best way I can help is to leave politics permanently and write funny stories for America’s kids. I call on John McCain to join me.”

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear jobycom!

He leaves us wanting more...

[jobycom]

11. Maybe. He's done this before, more than once, so he'll probably be back.

He ran Bloom County originally, and canceled it, but brought back the same strip under the name "Opus." Earlier, he had written Opus out of his strip, saying that the penquin had taken over the strip and he wanted it to have a broader base, or something like that. Later, Opus returned.

So, I wouldn't write anything Breathed says in stone on the future of his strips. He has a hard time letting go. Except letting alligators go in public lakes, but that's a different story.

[pokerfan]

17. Don't forget Outland

Bloom County 1980-1989
Outland 1989-1995
Opus 2003-2008

I think Opus the Penguin will be back.

[Bake]

3. Geez, I'll miss him!!

And yet Family Circus goes on ...

Bake

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. I will miss him too, my dear Bake...

My paper only carried it on Sundays, and it was something I always looked forward to...

Yup, Family Circus goes on...:eyes:

[pokerfan]

24. Opus is a Sunday-only strip

Like Foxtrot.

Have you seen Dysfunctional Family circus?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. I hadn't seen Dysfunctional Family Circus!

What a riot!

Thank you...


:rofl:

[pokerfan]

26. There are hundreds of them

with various captions http://dfc.furr.org/">here.

[ogneopasno]

4. I, for one, am happy to see this.

Opus was only a shadow of Bloom County, which was a one-trick pony anyway.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Ah...

Whatever works for you.

I hadn't seen Bloom County...

[krispos42]

14. YOU HAVEN'T SEEN BLOOM COUNTY???

CaliPeg, you have NO idea what you're missing!!!!

It ran during the Reagan era and the rise of the Religous Right! It was friggin' HILARIOUS!!! Opus, Hodge-Podge, Portnoy, Steve Dallas, Milo Bloom, Michael Binkley, Bill the Cat, Cutter John, Oliver Jones...

You'll laugh your ass off!

Get up right now, go down to your nearest used bookstore, and BUY SOME!!! "Loose Tails" was the first book, and they go on from there.

Go go go. Don't reply, just go go go!

[CreekDog]

28. Bloom County was the best thing I read in all of Junior High

My friends would pass around a copy of "Toons For Our Times" during Biology class. I got hooked.

[krispos42]

6. Nooooooooo!

:cry:


I love Bloom County!!!


:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear krispos42...

Alas, I am afraid it's true...

The last few strips had foreshadowed something coming to an end...

It's a shame...

:hug:

[Leopolds Ghost]

9. Everything I remember fondly is closing up shop it seems.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear Leopolds Ghost...

It sure seems that way, doesn't it?

They made us laugh, and cry...

They helped bring our lives into sharper focus...

[pleah]

12. Bummer.

:-(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. My sentiments exactly.

:cry:

[blogslut]

13. You'll be back, Breathed

Your characters will force you back to the fore.

Goodbye for now, sweet penguin. Until we meet again.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Oh, how much I hope you're correct...

[Love Bug]

18. Dammit!!

I wish he'd bring Bloom County back. I'd also like to see Calvin and Hobbs and Far Side. Those three strips are the best!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. I miss those too...

[Bigmack]

19. Goddamit! The comics are the only ....

things that make sense these days.

Non Sequitor, Close to Home, Opus, and Doonesbury.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. Exactly!

They throw the clear light of truth on our lives...

[ihavenobias]

21. Sorry Peggy

:(

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. My dear ihavenobias...

Thanks, sweetie...

:hug:

[Hekate]

27. I felt so sad when I read that in the LAT....

:cry: Bloom County and Opus are treasures that will live on in their paperback books: tender still, but without the topicality that kept them so lively. I loved the vet in the wheelchair, I loved Opus... Dang.

Hekate

[CaliforniaPeggy]

29. My dear Hekate...

I felt sad too...

But, according to some posters upthread, it may be back...

Berkeley has a hard time walking away from his creations, it seems...

:hug:

[Toucano]

30. But he's too young to die! n/t

[DemoRabbit]

31. Sad... Opus will always be my favorite

I even have him tattooed on my leg!

[Homer Wells]

32. Damn!!!

I'm still missing Calvin and Hobbes!!

:cry:

[catnhatnh]

33. AH....for just one more game....

of Calvin Ball.........