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[Bloom County] is b-ack! New strips posted herein! Meadow Party 2016!

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  • ApostateApostate Prince SpaceRegistered User regular
    Shorty wrote: »
    I think Garry Trudeau has actually flipped shit at Breathed for knocking off his style (in like a good-natured way)
    Trudeau doesn't deserve to carry Breathed's jock strap. Bloom County was hilarious and insightful. Doonesbury was just tedious and smug.

    A more accurate assessment would be that Berk re-worked Doonesbury so that it was actually good.

  • cckerberoscckerberos Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
    Doonesbury was actually pretty awesome back in the 70's. That stuff still holds up well.

    I mean, there's a reason that Breathed was cribbing from it.

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    I never found Bloom county to be directly anti republican, it made fun of things that deserved to be made fun of, it just occured mostly during republican presidential years, so much of it was pointed that direction.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    azith28 wrote: »
    I never found Bloom county to be directly anti republican, it made fun of things that deserved to be made fun of, it just occured mostly during republican presidential years, so much of it was pointed that direction.

    Bloom County was always fairly anti-authoritarian and anti-conservative in a social context. Its most offensive characters were usually avatars of some facet of right-wing ideology, such as Steve's capitalist misogyny, Grandpa's fears of communists and hippies, and Binkley's dad's constant attempts to make his genteel son more macho.

    But yes, it's very reflective of a decade dominated by the Reagan Administration

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    True, but if anything I feel like it was a more libertarian bent then left or right.

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  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    The comic pages in the 80s were chock full of good stuff. Glad to see one of those strips making a comeback.

    Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
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    I sympathize with Opus.

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  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Nocren wrote: »
    Shorty wrote: »
    Now just bring back The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes.

    calvin and hobbes is Very Important to me

    but I think I'm fine with letting it lie

    but I do really wish Bill Watterson would do something else

    Does his guest stint on... Shit, was it Pearls before Swine(?) count?

    in that it was really good and proof that not just C&H is a worthwhile thing he could be publishing if he had the urge

    I do wish he had picked someone more talented to collaborate with but that choice itself is interesting, especially given the resulting comics

  • ShortyShorty touching the meat Intergalactic Cool CourtRegistered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
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    I lol'ed

    I love that thing of comics where somebody's hat jumps off their head when they get surprised

  • V1mV1m Registered User regular
    I think technically that is "shocked".

  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    up until today i thought Bloom County and Doonesbury were the same comic. Hm.

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  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular

    Bonus points for having to do with missing deadlines. Breathed was absolutely horrible at that.

    Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    daveNYC wrote: »

    Bonus points for having to do with missing deadlines. Breathed was absolutely horrible at that.

    In the collections, Breathed told stories about feverishly writing the strips at 5 a.m. and then racing to the airport to put them onto a cargo plane.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    Oh god, Steve's now in the wheelchair!

    It's not the special custom one with mauve armrests though.
    Or the really custom one the kids built.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    ha!

    I didn't even notice it was Steve

  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    Fairly sure that's still Cutter John

  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    Yea, though I'm amused that he is grey haired and obviously aged while all the kids are still, ya know, kids.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    That is most definitely Cutter John, just keeping stylistically up-to-date and not having a moustache

  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    Berke mentioned on Facebook that Cutter's the same age, though his hair went gray "after his Bush war experience," whatever that means.

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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    Damn... Just saw the hair and cigarette and though Steve Dallas...

    Though i guess wat can cause a man to change. I took up smoking myself while in the navy.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    It looks a little thin to be a cigarette... maybe it's a strand of hay or something else country?

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  • NocrenNocren Lt Futz, Back in Action North CarolinaRegistered User regular
    Probably a toothpick.

    I should read these on something other than my phone...

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  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    I think it's the outline of the cloud behind them. Just a little bit of tangenting a la Abby Howard in Strip Search?

  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    Oh my god, someone who knows how to embed Facebook posts needs to embed Breathed's last three posts stat, because he just did something amazing.

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  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    cloudeagle wrote: »
    Oh my god, someone who knows how to embed Facebook posts needs to embed Breathed's last three posts stat, because he just did something amazing.

    I don't think you can embed facebook, it'd have to be screen caps.

  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
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    OPEN LETTER TO FUTURE PRESIDENT TRUMP: We and America call upon you to produce lab evidence proving NO shared DNA between your head fur and your family Lhasa Apso, Goldy Tinkles. If such documentation is thus provided, the Really Loaded Friends of Bloom County will deliver a check for $2 million dollars to your known favorite charity. We wouldn't joke about this.
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    Also, this is mostly just "copy image URL" for this stuff.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited July 2015
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  • CogCog What'd you expect? Registered User regular
    "He wants you home for dinner" is a great line.

  • chasmchasm Ill-tempered Texan Registered User regular
    God, I'm glad he's back.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
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  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 Sufficiently Chill The Chill ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited July 2015
    Oh my god, yes

    I think I must have checked out the Bloom County collections from the local library as a kid dozens of times.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
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    This stuff would never, ever make it past the newspaper syndicates.

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  • Lou29Lou29 Registered User regular
    Which was his biggest gripe in the marginalia to the recent collections about the last couple years of strips. SO glad he can do whatever he wants now.

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