berkeley breathed to retire opus

[Nusk]

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/10/18/opus/index1.html

mostly interesting for the following quote

Your children's books seem to appeal to your gentler, Charles Schulz side. But how -- without Opus -- will you exercise your Michael Moore side?

I'll be on my couch Sunday mornings screaming at Brokaw and Stephanopoulos to call out the blathering bastards on their stupid fucking talking points and pin the dancing, lying, spinning Tasmanian Weasels down about something, ANYTHING for Christ Bloody Sake THE COUNTRY IS GETTING STEERED INTO CHAOS AND INSOLVENCY AND WAR BY ITS UNREAD UNINFORMED DULLARD SHEEP CONSTITUENCIES AND YOU JUST LET THE CANDIDATE SAY ONE MORE TIME WITHOUT OBJECTION THAT HE'S GOING TO CUT TAXES WHILE HE CALLS FOR FREE 24 KARAT GOLD FRANKFURTERS TO BE INSERTED INTO EVERY AMERICAN'S ASS JUST BECAUSE BUTT BULLION POLLS WELL.

[Reynaldo]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Bloom County was a staple of my Sunday mornings growing up.

Even so much as naming my first pen and paper DnD cleric Opus. He died to a poison that the group couldn't cure and the DM ripped up my character sheet right in front of me which was traumatic, but that's neither here nor there.

Time to go buy all the Outland and the recent Opus comic compillations now.

[Arlos]

I still think Bloom County is the greatest comic strip ever. Calvin and Hobbes running a close second, of course.

I wish, oh how I wish, that Breathed would do a massive complete compilation of all of the BC strips, Outland strips and Opus strips into a couple massive volumes, like Watterston did with the Complete Calvin & Hobbes collection. I would buy that thing in a heartbeat. I don't think it's too likely though, from what I've read from him. Most unfortunate.

-Arlos