Parents in my neighborhood got it, and thought it was funny. There was a lot of, "Bob, get out here! Check it out, there's a kid dressed like James Watt!" None of my classmates knew who Watt was, though.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
"The Peterson's kid is dressed like an iguana!"
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder how much the completed reprinted hardcover series is going to be.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
They are all out I think; $30/vol on Amazon, five volumes http://www.amazon.com/Bloom-County-Complete-Collection-1980-1982/dp/1600105319
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Do they have the Billy & the Boingers flexidisc y/n
― cashmere tears-soaker (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago) link
'the truth, steve, is that 'knight rider' is actually a children's program.''CAN'T BE! can't *@#!* BE!'
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 06:52 (twelve years ago) link
"the truth, Binkley, is that you look like a carrot."
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
I busted out "gonna be a raucous caucus" a few weeks back on FB for obvious reason - and was shocked by the number of people who got the reference
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 12:11 (twelve years ago) link
I liked it when Breathed would pull out the physical violence, which was almost inevitably someone getting hit on the head with a stick or paddled.
Basselope gap, for example.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b203/maarts/rosebud4.gif
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
The toon that made me love the strip, back in 3rd/4th Grade:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/156980933_1ea5a376db.jpg
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Got the Complete Library Vol 1 from the local library(which has copies of all of them, Hooray!), and it's interesting to see BB try to get his footing in the early years. There are a _LOT_ of early strips that were never reprinted before, probably with good reason. Plenty of Pogo in here, too.
Example: Limekiller & Bobbi Harlow were far more prominent early on, before Steve Dallas showed up. Opus only appears briefly as Binkley's new pet penguin, then doesn't pop up again for another 6 months, and even then it's a while until they name him.
Far more Reagan and GOP jokes than you remember, too.
Also: Binkley's mom is shown.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
I reread Tales Too Ticklish to Tell last week; I still get off on the penguin lust episode.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
First even printed Academia Waltz strip. Somebody grew up reading a lot of Trudeau and Fieffer:
http://www.geektress.com/images/bloomcoearly.jpg
http://www.geektress.com/images/bloomcoheader.jpg
the first sunday color logo
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
There's an entire run from 1982 of Milo getting in trouble for a class presentation on "Penguin evolution", which has him going on trial for not including the competing idea of "scientific penguinism".
Sometimes I get the idea that even if we waited for all the Reagan-era assholes to finally die off, stupidity is so hardwired into the human brain that this kinda shit will never leave us.
http://www.invisiblelizard.com/2006/03/penguin-lust.html
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mPljjiQDXjU/SXChp5x2E2I/AAAAAAAAAlg/gsAkttMxGpg/s1600/Penguin+Lust.jpg
One of BB's standard tropes I always enjoy was characters resting objects on their heads, which then could be ejected for heightened comic effect.
Disappointing Google search results:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Penguin-Lust/126374367398021?sk=info
Penguin Lust is the supple interaction that occurs in a penguin's heart when it sees an object of desire. This physiological phenomonon has brought about much controversy over the last several years but we believe it is a beautiful thing that should not be discouraged. Penguin Lust is primed for the upswing. Are you ready to LUST LIKE A PENGUIN?
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I loved how Portnoy, Hodge Podge, Mr. Binkley, and the rest all got Brylchreemed pompadours when born again
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9lOTZ1T8XQ/SwtAXEkdKCI/AAAAAAAAADw/FIfooHpid3w/s1600/Tales+Too+Ticklish+to+Tell+01.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c9lOTZ1T8XQ/SwxvRrDC-oI/AAAAAAAAAD4/_iMntGO33Us/s1600/Tales+Too+Ticklish+to+Tell+02.jpg
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.animenation.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/wholegang.gif
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 March 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
wow, whaddayaknow, the Falklands really _are_ covered with penguins:
http://www.seabirds.org/penguins.htm
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Sunday, 25 March 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/3/1/1267440566186/Steve-Bells-If...-01.03.2-001.jpg
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
This was one of the things I loved about Bloom County. Breathed had a sense of timing and pace that I hadn't seen in any other comics other than Krazy Kat, Calvin & Hobbes, and Peanuts. There was a frenetic energy to Bloom County that no other newspaper comic had at the time.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 25 March 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.johnsjottings.com/images/opus_big.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
Alfred, I won't be mad if you post those every day.
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
What I always loved about that one is how in the final panel you can just see Opus facing them, pants about his ankles, and can just sense a 'oh of COURSE' look on his face even though there's no way to actually see it.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder what Breathed thinks of what Trump eventually went on to become
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
Margaret Thather >>> Diane Sawyer
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
Thatcher too
Margaret, that's her
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
"hello? Sudden Success Services, Inc!"
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Ephemera/BloomCounty1988_SR_Aid.jpg
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
munch munch
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
TS: Guy Gardner's personality flip v Steve Dallas's
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
Gephardtization?
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
"Start over!"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Dallas's - Guy Gardner worked well for both lols and playing with the nascent team's dynamic the first time, but it got diluted on reuse, and especially when played for dumber lols by clumsier hands than Giffen & DeMatteis
― sug night (sic), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.davart.net/awg/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/BloomCountyLiberalHunt.jpg
http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/smwance/12390179/477237/477237_original.gif
I forgot that these are getting reprinted online daily:http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://i44.tinypic.com/20rl4is.jpg
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Might you, good sir, have the latest issue of Ivory?""Shoo! I run a progressive news stand here."
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
http://assets.amuniversal.com/a4a14bd05dbe012ee3bf00163e41dd5b
http://assets.amuniversal.com/f14999905dbf012ee3bf00163e41dd5b
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
I never noticed Hodgepodge's lapel pin before
omigod I had "Send him little Bobby's college fund" in my head the other day.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
for some reason that strip feels particularly relevant these days.
isn't it funny how bill suddenly learned to talk when he became fundamentally oral bill?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
Nothing but urges from hell!
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link
it finally occurred to me, about 20 years too late, that the introduction to this book was probably not actually written by the person it was supposedly by:
http://d1466nnw0ex81e.cloudfront.net/iss/600w/508/21165075/934641.jpg
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
In 10th grade I stole "Dear George Will' for a newspaper our English teacher asked us to produce on our own
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
I found my Billy & The Boinger flexi yesterday, inside a completely different book I was planning to ebay
― sug night (sic), Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
s
― sug night (sic), Thursday, 25 October 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
"I was walking down the street and somebody hit me with a tree."
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://roasterboy.com/pictures/bloom.county.orginal.science.gif
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
I really need to pick up that complete collection.
― Fieri-brand sausages into my and your ready holes (silby), Monday, 19 November 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link