Bloom County C/D?

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.

I reread Tales Too Ticklish to Tell last week; I still get off on the penguin lust episode.

First even printed Academia Waltz strip. Somebody grew up reading a lot of Trudeau and Fieffer:

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the first sunday color logo

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

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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?

I loved how Portnoy, Hodge Podge, Mr. Binkley, and the rest all got Brylchreemed pompadours when born again

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wow, whaddayaknow, the Falklands really _are_ covered with penguins:

http://www.seabirds.org/penguins.htm

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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.

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.

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Alfred, I won't be mad if you post those every day.

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.

I wonder what Breathed thinks of what Trump eventually went on to become

Margaret Thather >>> Diane Sawyer

Thatcher too

Margaret, that's her

"hello? Sudden Success Services, Inc!"

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munch munch

TS: Guy Gardner's personality flip v Steve Dallas's

Gephardtization?

"Start over!"

TS: Guy Gardner's personality flip v Steve Dallas's

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

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I forgot that these are getting reprinted online daily:
http://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/

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"Might you, good sir, have the latest issue of Ivory?"
"Shoo! I run a progressive news stand here."

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I never noticed Hodgepodge's lapel pin before

omigod I had "Send him little Bobby's college fund" in my head the other day.

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?

Nothing but urges from hell!

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:

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In 10th grade I stole "Dear George Will' for a newspaper our English teacher asked us to produce on our own

I found my Billy & The Boinger flexi yesterday, inside a completely different book I was planning to ebay

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"I was walking down the street and somebody hit me with a tree."

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I really need to pick up that complete collection.

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has there been a "best comics strips of all time" poll? bloom county would def. be my number 1

Would be a boring poll, would go like
1. Peanuts
2. Calvin and Hobbes
3. Bloom County
4. Far Side
5. Krazy Kat (Morbs throws up his hands when this is revealed so low)
6-100. Nobody cares

6-100. Nancy

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i would definitely vote in a "best comic strips of all time" poll

I drew an Opus skeleton recently (bad photo):

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omg

Ha i think i saw that on FB, so righteous.

Fucking brilliant.

http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople2/deletedbloom853.html

a collection of strips that never made it into the TPBs

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