OPUS TO END

[thomasallencummins]

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First there was Bloom County in the 80s. Loved every panel of that strip. Then there was Outland in the 90s. Loved every panel of that strip. Then most recently came OPUS and I've followed my favorite penguin virtually every sunday and have enjoyed every panel.

Now Berkeley Breathed is calling it quits....again.

Whether he'll come back years from now is up for debate since he's done that very thing twice before but something tells me this time it's for real.

I'll find some way to cope. I guess I'll have to buy all the strips that have been compiled in book form.

BILL THE CAT RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ram]

Bloom County was one of my favorite strips of the 80's - maybe my most favorite of all. That was when I read the weekly funnies all the time.

However, after Bloom County's run, it just wasn't the same anymore. Outland didn't do it for me, and while I remained fond of good ol' Opus, his further adventures fell off my radar. As did all the other strips. It was as if the end of Bloom County symbolized something greater than the end of one "mere" cartoon strip. I remember being profoundly sad at seeing the final page of Bloom County, but there was also a sense of closure - to a decade, to a part of my life. Bloom County was one of the best and funniest things I had ever read, and it went out on top.

[thomasallencummins]

I feel much the same way, ram. However because of my insatiable appetite for more Bloom County I put up with the latter incarnations for one simple reason...I had no choice. Besides "The Far Side" there has never been a weekly strip other than those produced by Mr. Breathed that I have found entertaining. Even when I was a very very very young lad Haggar The Horrible, Beetle Bailey, B.C. and Andy Capp just made me yawn. I'm pretty picky about my newspaper cartoon entertainment. :-)