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This first big "bible" of Bloom County includes comics from the earlier collections: Loose Tails, 'Toons for Our Times and Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things. Eighty full-color pages including the wonderful Opus "hairy fishnuts/Hare Krishnas" strip and the first Bill-the-Cat appearance. If you hurt yourself laughing (like when you read about Bill freebasing Friskies), don't blame me; I warned you. ... Read more

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Funny as a Penguin Trying to Hang Glide
For the love of wonderful things, seems to always come when those wonderful things are in short supply. And so it was with Berke Breathed's Bloom County. There simply isn't enough out there. In this collection, the first five creative wacky years of Breathed's Bloom Country are captured showing Opus appearing for the first time alongside a Hare Krishna's...something is lost in translation though into Penguin-speak, "Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts." And so it is with Breathed's Bloom County.

Color plates are interspersed ever so often throughout the book. The black and white really isn't a detractor though because Breathed's off the cuff semi-liberal tongue in cheek anything goes alternate reality humor takes center stage. There is Milo's Meadow where philosophy rules the day and Binkley chokes on the headlines screaming, "The Nicaraguan Contras are the moral equivalent of our founding fathers;" remember that was the 80's. Like David Lee Roth Van Halen, Northern Exposure, and the Bengal Tiger, it's too bad Bloom Country has gone the way of the Dodo, or flying penguins for that matter. All in all it's a wonderful collection; it's just too bad there's not more of it.

The best compilation of the best comic from the 80s...
Where have you gone, Opus? We need you now more than ever. I just checked this out again from my shelf, and after Sept. 11, I sure could use a laugh. Opus and company never disappoint. Along with the Far Side, Doonesbury, and Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County led the "modern" period of comic strips out of the Family Circus and Apartment 3-G hell that we have unfortunately now returned to...

Bloom County created an entire world full of funny, amazing and outrageous characters that stand the test of time and break out of the monotony of the vast majority of other comics. And, by the way, it was also the best drawn comic strip ever, IMHO.

It's a shame that most of these books are out of print, with only this book still hanging around. If you want to check out a real comic, get this book!

Babble on and on and on
Bloom County is on my short list of all-time favorite comics. The original form, before short-lived "Outland" or the current "Opus", is long gone, though. Picking up this book was a wonderful piece of nostlagia.

The series peaked some time in the early 80s, and "Babylon" offers a sample of that time. I had forgotten how topical it was, full of references to then-current supermodels, presidents, movies, and sitcoms. Despite that, much of the humor has aged well. Milo's anxiety closet, for example, never needs to end. Various bogey-men (and -women) will reside there for their times, and move on. The anxiety will always be there, however, no matter how silly it looks to everyone else.

Even a book this size can't capture every strip in the five years (82-6) that it covers. That means that some of my favorite characters, like winsome Pistachio, barely even had cameo appearances. I'll take what I can get, though, and this is a pleasant sample.

If you ever liked any strip comic, you liked Bloom County or will like it. Maybe the 80s were before your time, but the characters will still look right up to date. Enjoy!

Possibly the best of the Bloom County collections.
This book is an overview of the first five years of the strip, ranging from the early strips in which the focus is mostly on Milo, through the introductions of Binkley, Bobbi, Cutter John, Opus, Oliver Wendell Jones, Steve Dallas, and finally, Bill The Cat. Personally, I've always had a preference for the early, pre-Bill The Cat strips; I could deal with the silliness inherent in Opus and Oliver's anthropomorphic computer, but Bill just seemed one step over the line. But I know that he's very popular, and he's here, too. There are a few strips here that were reprinted from the previous three collections, but most of this material is NOT reprints. Of course, much of the humor will be completely incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't politically aware during the '80s, but I suspect that even for such a (hopefully) young person, there's plenty here to enjoy.

Full color? I must be colorblind.
Buyer beware: the editorial review states that this book contains eighty full-color pages, but it doesn't. It contains eighty pages that obviously were at one time or another in color, but which are now a messy conglomeration of grays and whites, much like something you'd expect to see coming out of a low-grade fax machine.

Many years ago, I read another copy of this book that did, in fact, contain eighty full-color pages, so I know the pages were in color at some point. However, the only colors on the book I received from Amazon.com are on the front and back covers. ... Read more

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Humor and political insight unparalleled
Berke Breathed was one of those rare political cartoonists whose political insight was the same weight as his humor. "Bloom County" was his greatest vehicle. Some other cartoons have great political scope but just don't make you laugh out loud--"Doonesbury" and "Mallard Fillmore", particularly. While others fake political insight, but are very humorous. "Tales Too Ticklish to Tell: Bloom County" is as good as any of the other Bloom County anthologies, but it's the inclusion of a Bloom Picayune that makes this an extra treat, and serves as a reminder that this strip was special for its time. Boy, do I miss it.

The Way We Were, 1987 Edition...
In 1987, America's obsessions included the Iran-Contra affair, the NFL players' strike, the peculiar pecadilloes of televangelists and the effect they had on their "flocks," and the impending election of a new President from a crop of unlikely candidates. It is this America that Berke Breathed took a snapshot of, and is thus preserved for the ages within the pages of this, the sixth collection of Bloom County comic strips (covering late 1986 through virtually all of '87).

The longest and best continuity contained in this book is the one in which the Meadow denizens find themselves completely brainwashed by Bill the Cat's new teleministry. Calling himself "Fundamentally Oral Bill," he manages to convince everyone of the true danger lurking in the shadows of America - "Penguin Lust!" Guess who *that* directly affects... Opus soon finds himself hounded completely out of town, the victim of a misguided religious fervor. The strip then follows Opus as he takes a job as a male stripper for Chippendales, meets up with various celebrities-of-the-moment, and finally ends up aimlessly wandering a vast creative wasteland, completely without direction or a script. ("Boy, do I feel like the Democratic party!", he utters at one point.) Eventually, though, all is forgiven, and he's welcomed back to the Boarding House.

In other developments, Opus actually gets hitched to his girlfriend of a year's standing, Lola Granola... only to knock himself out cold on her face when leaning in for a post-nuptial kiss. (It's his nose, you see.) While unconscious, he envisions what life would be like after twenty years of marriage; it eventually ends with Lola leaving him for a rocket mechanic, and Opus left to raise their 23 test-tube babies. Needless to say, the first word out of his mouth when he comes to: "Annullment." Luckily for him, Lola was having second thoughts of her own, and so that storyline (begun in the previous book) is ended.

Then, there's the strike... The Bloom County Players' Union, taking a stand against the increased size reduction of newspaper comic strips over the years, walks off the job in a direct swipe at the NFL's labor troubles of that year. In retaliation, W.A. Thornhump (President and CEO of Bloom County, Inc.) hires a "scab" replacement cast, with predictable results.

The Iran-Contra hearings are also parodied, as Oliver makes contact with alien raiders who intend to harvest humans for slaves and food ("THEY AIN'T E.T.," scream the newspapers). The federal government retaliates the only way they know how - subponeas. Unfortunately for them, the aliens prove to be extremely telegenic puppy dogs, and public opinion soon overwhelmingly turns in their favor as a result. The representative depicted in these strips may just as well have been named "Lt. Col. Oliver North," because that's exactly who he's supposed to be talking like. Breathed's message is clear - with the right look and the right words, America can and will forgive just about any crime, no matter how heinous. Times really haven't changed all that much...

Also included is the series of strips that made headlines of a sort, when Bill the Cat was fingered in a "Bible-study" scandal with a middle-aged woman originally named "Edith Dreck." Breathed wasn't aware of it at the time, but the word "dreck" is Yiddish for excrement, and his use of the term raised quite a few eyebrows. The spelling was changed in subsequent reprintings (this book included) to "Drock," but the incident provided fuel for many future gags in Bloom County whereby a sensitive reader would become completely irrational over an offensive word on the comics page.

And in the final long continuity reprinted here, Steve Dallas is kidnapped by aliens (different ones this time, though) and put through a process called "Gephardtization" - by which his personality and beliefs are turned around the complete 180 degrees. As a result, the womanizing conservative ex-preppie lawyer emerges from the process as a feminist liberal Jesse Jackson supporter... completely useless as a defense attorney, and not much better as a lover. Although readers made it clear they preferred the old Steve, Breathed would maintain this new version of his oldest character up until just before the end of Bloom County itself in 1989. There was, after all, just as much humor to be mined from the "sensitive male" as there was from the "stereotypical MAN'S MAN."

As a bonus, the book also includes a pull-out section - a copy of the Bloom Picayune, Bloom County's best (and only) daily newspaper.

Highly recommended for scholars of newspaper comics... but then, you probably already knew that.

A genius of political humor
Breathed is a great cartoonist in general, but his political satire is without equal. For those of us coming of age politically in the mid- to late-1980s, this book will provide a constant source of laughs, from disgraced televangilists to football strikes to (my all-time favorite) alien dogs that look and act surprisingly like Oliver North. Don't miss!

classic bloom county
This was the first bloom county book I ever read in introduced me to the world of bloom county. Ever since I read this I have wanted all the bloom county I can find. Berke Breathed is a genus and opus rocks ... Read more

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Bloom County 4.... or 5.... depends on....
Okay - Bloom County Babylon, the 4th Bloom County book was really a compilation of material contained in the first 3 books. So.... depending on if you want a chronological collection of the BC Strips, or to complete ALL of the BC Books, this is either the 4th or 5th volume of Bloom County, and Berkeley Breathed is still in high-gear producing the funniest 'toon strip I've ever read. And by "funny" I mean laugh-out-loud, roll on the floor, tears streaming down my face, people coming into the room to see "WHAT are you laughing at?!!!?" kind of laugh.

In "Billy and the Boingers" Steve Dallas, the sleazy womanizing ambulance-chasing lawyer, finally decides that even HE has had it with defending murderers and child abusers. Bill the cat inspires him to hold auditions for a "New high-profit heavy-metal rock band". Requirements are only "Need to know 3 chords and be able to grimace musically".

Along the way Opus the Penguin gets engaged to sweetie Lola Granola, and the new Heavy Metal Group "Death-Tongue" makes their pitch in Los Angeles to recording companies, ending with a memorable visit backstage at an Ozzy Osbourne concert - back when Ozzy was the "Elvis of Heavy Metal". Back in Bloom County Steve discovers that he must give up cigarette smoking or his life expectancy is 6 months. He has Opus tie him to a chair where he is the model of self-control for 38 whole minutes before he breaks down and tells Opus "Get me a (...) cigarette before I stick you in a blender". Things get worse from there.

As in the previous volumes Breathed does a fantastic job of creating a surreal universe full of people and critters that we care about, but who are most importantly..... funny.

B.B. just kept getting better
Bloom County was without a doubt the most insightful, funny, and beloved comic strips of all time. It's rabid following has never gotten over the disappearance of Opus and the Gang from the funny papers. That's because nothing has ever been able to take it's place. Could you imagine Opus, Bill, Steve, and Milo tackling today's issues? What besides G.W. Bush and Saddam would be in the anxiety closet. Alas, we can only remember the good times.

This is one of my favorite Bloom County books. It mostly took on an issue that has always been important to me, rock n roll. The gang takes on the PMRC by forming their own metal band Deathtongue. After battling Washington though, Steve Dallas caves in and Billy and the Boingers is born.

Long live live Opus. He is sorely missed.

Basselopes and penguins and rabbits, oh my.
I've always had a slight preference for the early "Bloom County", before things got quite this surreal. Which is not to say that I don't enjoy this one; there are a great many very funny bits in here, such as Steve Dallas facing the government commission led by Tipper Gore in defense of the lyrics of the rock band "Deathtongue", which featured Opus the penguin on tuba (very appropriate for a heavy-metal band, wouldn't you say?) Hodge-Podge the rabbit on drums, Bill the Cat on electric tongue, and Steve Dallas a lead singer and songwriter. All of which is certainly pretty surreal. But sometimes it got even weirder than that, if you can believe it.

Not the best of the "Bloom County" books, and certainly not the one to start with if you aren't familiar with them, but funny and worth owning if you enjoy the series and don't have it.

Another great job from bloom county
Bloom county is by far one of the funniest comic strips ever made. The characters are funny the dialag almost every thing.
Billy and the Boingers Bootleg has to be the funniest bloom county book I can remmber.
Opus shows his emotions as the ways the others cant. When something is wrong it aways happens to opus. Bill the cat is very funny! And the rest of the charcters.
The best parts of this book is the one were opus has to keep steve from not smoking or he'll die. That one was very funny.
The other one is when Bill and opus become in a heavy metal band called death tunges. That was really funny. I highly recommend you get this book you wont be dissapointed.

If any one here has some of the books can you tell me what happens with opus and his wife? Do they get a divorce? Just wandering.

Boing!
This book is probably the best Bloom County book published, and not just because of the Burger Chef value meal-type "record" that was part of the book.

Breathed was, quite bluntly, a comic genius and social satirist. Those who characterize Bloom County as a comic strip miss the point. The strip was a satire and commentary on the go-go economy and society of the 80s, human relationships, and economics.

This book contains some of the best, funniest, most powerful stuff in Bloom County's history. Just writing about it makes me want to go into the basement and play with my Opus phone.

You can't go wrong with this book. Again, it appears to be out of print (most of the best comic works are out of print, unfortunately). ... Read more

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Classic BC/O Primer
I'd already owned all of the Bloom County and Outland books, this being my last purchase. I had seen it in the bookstore when it was published, but figured I already had the strips contained therein - why spend the extra money? I happened one day to be flipping through the book when I read the introduction, specifically the first page of said intro. There, in color bolder than life, was a painting from, Breathed claims, his early years, entitled Geshundeit. It was precisely this abrupt style of humor that brought me into the BC fold. The golden years of Bloom County, with Breathed's pithy observations of the late 80's, kept me there. If you want to understand the following Breathed has, this volume is the perfect place to start. ... Read more

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Bloom County: The Beginning
Here you will find the beginning of one of the most inspired comic strips ever put to paper. No other strip made me laugh as hard, or as often, as "Bloom County". In fact, pretty much nothing else in the whole wide world made me laugh as hard as this divine creation of Mr. Berke Breathed. Here we are introduced to the Milo Bloom, Steve Dallas, Cutter John and by far the best-known comic Penguin ever - Opus.

Here we can see that Bloom County was just crackling with creativity and a real desire to "cut loose" from the beginning. Some of the strips covered "current events" and were topical, meaning circa 1980, but if you were around for any of that time it's a nostalgic trip back to the days of Boy George and when Ozzy Osbourne was best known as a singer. But the vast majority of the strips ring very true today as they deal with the absurdities of the human animal.

A word about the format: Bloom County in it's original form included both the standard "3 panel" strips that appear in your every day newspaper in black and white, plus a larger full page color version for the Sunday paper. The other Bloom County volumes (as well as Bloom's sequel "Outland") were in a larger physical book form. (Similar to what you may have seen if you're a collector of, say, Calvin and Hobbes, or Dilbert). This first volume is a smaller book (similar in format to the endless volumes of Garfield which became available). But this is where it all began, and it includes much of the "best stuff".

If you want to know what America was laughing at in 1980, this is it. But you know what? I reread these strips every so often, and they STILL make me laugh that loud, roll on the floor, tears streaming down my face, people coming into the room to see WHAT are you laughing at kind of laugh. We don't get that kind of laugh often enough. Thank you, Mr. Breathed.

The first collection of a great comic strip - great fun
This is the first collection of Bloom County cartoons and a great place to start enjoying the fun. Bloom County is a fictional place populated with as eclectic a group of characters as you will find anywhere. Eccentric humans, a talking penguin, and Bill the Cat take on the societal follies of the early eighties with a humorous point of view.
See the Rolling Stones perform for an elementary school dance. Go back to a time when Three Mile Island was in the news and Princess Diana was expecting her first child. Even if the events are distant memories, the humor is timeless.

Berke Breathed's Glory Days!
Bloom County had something special, more than just the jokes. As you read the strip, you cannot help but get involved with the characters.

Bloom County fans don't just laugh at the jokes, they care about Opus and the rest. Even Steve Dallas, the ruthless but inept lawyer, wins sympathy.

The humour tends to the wit and satire end of the cartoon spectrum with only occasional bursts of slapstick. The satire is aimed mainly at lifestyles and steroetypes rather than current events which makes it still sharp as it ages.

It is a very male-centric book. Female characters are introduced in order to give the main players a romantic interlude or to prop up some situation.

Bloom County was one of the best cartoons of its time and Loose Tails is a real gem.

A Classic that must never be parted with...except for a mill
Breathed is down right the best! these strips are funny, cynical, and timeless! They follow a chronological order so you can follow the story which gets funnier at every page. I cried for weeks when I heard that Bloom County was to be no more. The comic pages are a wasteland now, except for maybe Dilbert, that Breathed is gone.

If you don't fall off your chair laughing, you might be dead
A must read. If you read only one book in your life, it should be this one. ... Read more

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Bloom County Volume Two
These strips aren't just funny. They're laugh out loud, roll on the floor, tears streaming down my face, people coming into the room to see "WHAT-are-you-laughing-at?!" funny.

Berkeley Breathed has created a perfect 'toon universe populated by funny and poignant humans, along with funny and poignant penguins, groundhogs, Bill the Cat and purple critters that hide in your closet of anxieties waiting to grab you as soon as you sleep. Breathed was an absolute genius at seeing some topical issue of the day (circa 1984 for this voume) holding it up to the light so that we could see it just the way that he did, then skewering the thing with what would be the humor equivalent of cupid's arrow.

So glad this is still in print
I had no idea this book was still around. I had picked it up in the mid-eighties, lent it to a friend in the early nineties, and it was gone. I never thought I would see it again. What a surprise to find it again. Immediately, I picked it up and started where I had left off years ago... roaring with laughter. This collection of Bloom County golden oldies is hysterical and clever. The years have been very kind to this strip because it is as fresh as it was during the Reagain administration. Pick up "Toons for Our Times: A Bloom County Book of Heavy Metal Rump 'N Roll" and laugh your rump off!

If ever there was a reluctant hero...
The first time I ever picked up a Bloom County book at a bookstore in the mall...and this was the book. After a few pages, I found myself having to close the book in order to gather my wits about me, wipe the tears off my face, then attempt to forge farther ahead...usually having to immediately close the book because glancing at the same page instantly initiated another wave of helpless laughter. Had this only happened once, I could have dealt with it as the adult that I believed myself to be...but, since it happened every few pages, I realized myself to be captivated in the tormented world of Opus and friends. Unfortunately (and much to my surprise, I didn't really care), this resulted in more than a few patrons of the bookstore in question to raise their eyebrows in my direction. I would like to thank the kind person that finally joined me (they picked up a copy of their own) and together we chortled together, pausing at times to close our books at our respective pages to momentarily regain our composure. Whimsical, thoughtful, introspective, silly, hilarious, thought-provoking...If you never read another comic, even if you think you're too old for silliness, you owe it to yourself and Berke to read this...and yes, I bought the book!

Giggle! Chortle! Snort!
When this book first came out, I was 9. I was already reading the strip, and loved it. I've never stopped doing either. Like many other comics and cartoons, it has many levels for appreciation. It combines a genuine understanding of the overall importance of silliness, sharp and brilliant satire, and brief, poignant moments of sincere emotion. I keep copies of this book and Penguin Dreams in my car and read a page before I walk into my office most days. Happy reading!

One of the Best
Probably THE book of the 1980s, comic strip or not. The wide cast of characters includes a Miami Vice style jerk, aging hippie, despairing leftist, Reaganites, etc. The sureal-ness of the series really highlights the social and political satire that climaxes in this collection. The endless optimism serves as a vivid contrast to the time period so much that it sorta trascends the time it was written (and drawn) in and can really show someone what the period was like. Some younger readers may not understand the political humor. A masterpiece. ... Read more

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Berke Breathed is great
Bloom County was one of the greatest comic strips ever to have existed, and possibly the best comic in the whole decade of the 1980's and that was when Calvin and Hobbs (by Bill Watterson) and The Far Side (by Gary Larson) were in their prime.

The best comic strips today are Scott Adams' Dilbert (which jumped the Shark a few years back, but still have good moments), Get Fuzzy (by Darby Conley) and a few online comics, most notably User Friendly (by Illiad) and Sinfest (by Tatsuya Ishid). See www.userfriendly.org and www.sinfest.net for some good stuff.

Bloom County dealt with political and social issues in original and novel ways. He didn't shy away from issues, and always dealt with things in a nice and funny way. Lovable Opus the Penguin became the soul of the strip. The plush Opus dolls I still own to this day are some of my favorite possessions.

Yes, it does look a lot like Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury. But Breathed was not copying it, but satirizing it and paying homage to it at the same time. Especially the way Milo Bloom played when compared to the Doonesbury's Uncle Duke... who Trudeau was just spoofing off from the real life Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (author who is most famous for his quasi-novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas").

However, my favorite character was Oliver Wendell Holmes, the young computer hacker who fought apartite in South Africa through his invention, which was going to turn all the white people in South Africa black. Then there was the time he basically brought down Western Civilization as we knew it when he hacked into the New York Stock Exchange and put "A vast Ye mattes, Bank of America's about to go belly up" across the ticker. He got a well deserved spanking for that.

Most important to me, however, Bloom County forms one of the great memories I have from High School. Reading Bloom County and talking about it with friends was something I really have fond memories of from that time. Maybe it was just something from youth that maybe you remember as a little better than it really was. Things like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams and the Night Court TV series seem that way to me now. Heck, I find much of Night Court to now be unwatchable. But Bloom County still seems to be very much readable to me. The 1980's in most ways basically stunk. But there were some minor high points to civilization as we knew it, and Bloom County was one of them.

This book was probably the best of the regular collections. It is good that I now hear that Breathed may be restarting Bloom County again.

A little dated, but still funny
Close your eyes and go back in time 20 years. Ronald Reagan is in the White House and getting ready to run for a second term against Walter Mondale. Disco, Heavy Metal, and Michael Jackson compete for space on a new network, MTV. In the funnies, Bloom County provides a humorous take on American society. This collection from 1983 and 1984 can take you back to those golden days when the Soviet threat made terrorists seem insignificant.

Stranger things?
I love the "Bloom County" seiries - the deranged goings on of various animals and humans, Steve Dallas the lawyer, Opus and of course, Bill the Cat. Mr Breathed's humor is right on target and very funny.

I recommend this book highly

Priceless and timeless humour
Although perhaps not the best introduction to the characters of Bloom County, this book will please fans of Opus, Steve Dallas and the rest.

Opus heads off to the South Pole, Steve Dallas becomes a sex gargoyle but still doesn't get the girl and the 'roaches continue to cause trouble.

Despite it's vintage, Bloom County continues to appeal and it looks just as good from both sides of the Atlantic.

If you lived through the mid-'80s, here's your book...
In my opinion, this book contains the absolute height of Bloom County's nine-year existence. The complete "Bill & Opus '84" continuity (that made the strip famous) is included here, as is Opus's typically calamatious *first* search for his long-lost mother. From Steve Dallas becoming "Mister America", to Opus entering the magical kingdom of Michael Jackson, to Oliver Wendell Jones's adventures in hacking, this book has it all. Highly recommended for anyone who was a fan of THE comic strip of the 1980's. ... Read more

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The end of an era...
Bloom County's departure from newspapers on 6 August 1989 was met with only moderate sadness, as within a very few weeks most of those same papers would begin carrying Breathed's follow-up strip, the Sunday-only Outland. But it was still a very sad event for those of us who had followed the strip from its earliest days as a "rural Doonesbury" to its emergence as a surrealistic, fourth-wall breaking, somewhat sentimental, and delightfully askew look at the follies of the world we all share, as seen through the eyes of Opus the penguin, arguably the Pogo of the late twentieth century, and his friends at the Bloom Boarding House.

This last collection of Bloom County takes us from January to August 1989 - the last seven months of the strip - and includes some parting shots at Donald Trump (whose brain somehow finds its way into one Mr. Bill D. Cat), Mary Kay cosmetics, 1-900 phone services, runaway consumerism, and the questionable nature of what humanity considers "progress." Opus pens his autobiography (which Milo extensively rewrites and sells off as a Movie-of-the-Week), Rosebud (recently "outed" as a female playing a male role) gives birth to 63 "jackabasselope" offspring, and Steve Dallas returns to he "Neanderthal" roots... just in time for the Trump-brained Bill to buy the strip out from under everyone. The last few weeks of Bloom County show the cast moving on - Steve tries to get into action comics, Oliver's transferred to Family Circus, Portnoy and Hodge-Podge end up cleaning up after Marmaduke, and so on. As for Opus himself... well, you'll have to read the book to find out. Suffice to say, the final six dailies serve as a suitable transition from Bloom County to Outland.

Highly recommended to Bloom County and/or Berkeley Breathed fans. It's not the BEST book in the series, but that doesn't make it any less of a must-read.

Brought a tear to me eye!
I remember reading this book early 90's and it literally made my stomach ache with sadness to read the final 10-15 pages. Opus had always been the tear-jerker character of the series and the way Breathed plays him in the final books of Bloom County is really sad for true fans. The nice part is what he does to Steve. All I can say is "HE's BAAAACK". (He's bad!) Great book for true Bloom County fans.

Cheers ... Read more