Just proving I'm not, in fact, Insane

by Rich of GASL on Sep 23, 2009 3:09 PM CDT

This goes back to last week and the link on Garfield as Garfield. Here is the Bloom County strip the idea was "borrowed" from.

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Long live Bloom County! And Billy and the Boingers.

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by Dominik on Sep 23, 2009 3:40 PM CDT reply actions

Jesus, I just went back and found the post you’re referring to — and I’d missed your link to the “missing” Bloom County strips. Damn, what a find.

I swear I remember several of those, but maybe they just fit in so well that they sound familiar. (The “New Coke” one I’m certain I saw, unless they ran one similar to it that’s in the books.) I haven’t gotten the books out in a long time, but every once in a while I tell someone how it would have gotten them through Reagan and then I think, “I should read through those again…”

Brilliant stuff.

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by Dominik on Sep 23, 2009 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions

YEah starting this October "Bloom COunty" is being rereleased...

…in hardcover, with Breathed providing “context” pages to explain the political humor in an attempt to make me feel as old as fucking possible.

Not that that will keep me from buying them…

by Rich of GASL on Sep 23, 2009 4:21 PM CDT up reply actions

I’ve just spent half an hour looking at those old ones and the changes he made in the Opus book. Now I’m scared he’s going to make more changes. … but yeah, still will buy it.

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by Dominik on Sep 23, 2009 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions

Well shit . . .

I think I just figured out what my brother’s getting for Christmas. He’s much more of a Bloom County fan than I am!

One day, David Backes and Albert Pujols will combine forces to become the most awesome piece of violent force known to man.

by Donut King on Sep 24, 2009 9:40 AM CDT up reply actions

point proven

so uhh what’s bloom county?

seriously though, im a calvin and hobbes man. never read bloom county. sorry for insinuating that you might be crazy.

by averagejoe on Sep 23, 2009 4:05 PM CDT reply actions

the scary thing is....

…I had trouble finding it at first when I was going through the books. I began to think “Did I dream this shit??”

by Rich of GASL on Sep 23, 2009 4:22 PM CDT up reply actions

im just impressed

you remembered a little throw away joke from years ago.

by averagejoe on Sep 23, 2009 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions

Well, it could be that I didnt have much of a life back then....

….nah, had to be something else.

by Rich of GASL on Sep 23, 2009 11:14 PM CDT up reply actions

I remembered it, but my god it would’ve taken me all night to find it. I was just wondering how in hell you guessed the right book or even section, but I imagine it was a lot of trial and error.

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by Dominik on Sep 23, 2009 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions

Well....I first looked in...

Penguin Dream & Stranger THings, but ti wasn’t there…so I said screw it and went straight to the Babylon book.

by Rich of GASL on Sep 23, 2009 11:16 PM CDT up reply actions

I loved Calvin and Hobbes, too. It was just different. The end of Bloom County, The Far Side and C&H felt like successive gut punches by the universe. But looking at strips that carry on forever, it’s probably best they quit while they were still great.

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by Dominik on Sep 23, 2009 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Milo, as in Bloom and Aukerman.

/Thanks for bringing back the memories, Rich.
//I KNEW you weren’t nuts.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Sep 25, 2009 11:03 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

PS

My faves are when Opus smokes a Marlboro, when while Opus is watching Mister Rogers he pronounces “public servant” as “bozo”, and when the farmer says, “tain’t corn -it’s dope” then offers Senator Bedfellow a bushel to take home to his wife.

Let's go Blues!!!

by Milo. on Sep 25, 2009 11:10 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions