Err... Opus!? Hello!?
Wednesday, May 12th, 2004 - 12:33pm
Somehow this slipped under my radar. I don't know if I care a hell of a lot more that other people, and my understanding is that a hell of a lot of other people already know about this, but B. Breathed started doing another strip!?
Starring OPUS!?
Called, get this, OPUS!?
How many people know? How many people care?
If you've read many of them, what's your impression? I guess folks are saying it's not that good.
"Is that your blood?"
"Some of it, yeah."
I loved Bloom County, occasionally liked Outland, and have been supremely indifferent to Opus so far. He should have stayed retired.
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Never seen it. Like Jada, I loved Bloom County (and its forrunner the Academia Waltz), and otuland was hit and miss. I liked it, overall.
Opus is probably my least liked of the chracters. I''d prefer a whole strip based solely on the exploits of Steve Dallas.
I''m enjoying it so far.
Robear
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3 words ""bill the Cat""
"My motto is, if it's not strong enough to release bowel control, it's not strong enough!"
Morrolan
Yeah, I love Bill. My favorite Bill The Cat stuff is when he became lead tongue of Deathtongue. Classic.
It''s more like outland than bloom county; you know, kinda ''out there.'' It''s more pointedly political too. Not that Bloom County wasn''t political.
I think Steve Dallas is dead from lung cancer by now
Morrolan wrote:
I replaced my Bloom County and Outland intake with Liberty Meadows.
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Frigging ''95 sucked in comic land. Death of Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes and The Far Side.
I haven''t really cared about a comic strip since.
"Is that your blood?"
"Some of it, yeah."
Then you''re missing Get Fuzzy, FoxTrot (sometimes), and Monty. I pity you....
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I''m pretty indifferent to Opus as well... but it''s not like there''s anything better in our Sunday paper. Well, except Fox Trot.
He took a page out of Waterson''s book, and I can respect what he managed to negotiate for. A half page of the paper with no crazy resizing. If it comes at the expense of other strips like Beatle Bailey and Blondie, so be it.
Our local paper doesn''t carry eith Get Fuzzy or Monty. Just picked up ""Bucky Katt''s Big Book of Fun"" for Mrs. Wumpus. She was laughing out loud so often I thought at first she was reading Pratchett.
I like the boondocks. That''s about all I really like nowadays.