Letters to the Editor
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Want Opus crap? It's all over eBay.
Posters, stuffed toys, even a plaster one that even anonymous can shove up his gapping hole.
Man! I must have really tweaked this anonymous asshole. He hates me. That's good. I like that.
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It's all over Ebay
There's vintage stuff on Ebay but there's nothing new being produced. You're holding it against Breathed that 25 years ago he had the nerve to allow his products to be marketed? In doing so he allowed himself to afford the artistic freedom to retire from a regular strip and do other work. I don't see the disgrace in giving people what they want.
I miss the Bloom County days with Cutter John and Bobbi but I still enjoy the gentle ribbing of Opus. I pay my $45 a year for Salon too and I'm glad they're spending some of it on Opus. There are plenty of other parts of Salon that don't interest me in the slightest but I don't begrudge it for those who do. Why waste your time on things that aggravate you so?
Let it go dude. Ignore Opus if you don't like it and if it makes you feel like you're being cheated on your subscription I guess you're free to not re-up.
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Not a repeat but a rhyme
People complaining about the plank breaking under Opus as he dawdles, unable to truly commit, would have complained just as loudly about Charles Schultz having Lucy pull away the football. Comics tend to repeat some gags, and some even develop into running gags.
Sometimes these running gags get better with age, sometimes they just get tired, and sometimes they do both. I find they have a deeper message, about how these times really are like a bad rhyme of what was bad under Ronnie RayGun, so it's only fitting that the penultimate ageing boomer returns to his naive roots.
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Egad, Locutus.
You suggest that Breathed--a cartoonist who has always struck me as too cute for words but not worth going into combat over--is in it for the peripheral bucks and then you have to go to eBay to find items from his Bloom County days. (How much does he make on sales of those items "made in communist China"?)
Let me write this for you: "I am sorry. In my desire to get something started, I spoke before I knew what I was talking about. Breathed, whatever his other faults, may be a sellout, but he is not that kind of sellout."
Again: I agree with you that Opus is weak. I also happen to think that turning every fucking thing into the pretext for attack turns you, Nam Boy, into a one-note rageaholic joke who might, one day long ago, before the itch to flame got to him, have been a useful tool instead of just a simple tool.
Anonymous Asshole
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Why this strip is disappointing to me
Having Opus substitute for Bush fails because:
- It inadvertently transfers Opus's lovable qualities to the president, who is anything but lovable.
- It transfers Opus' cutesy qualities to the president
- It makes us see the President as a cutesy failure
- It could just make folks feel sorry for poor ol' Georgie
- The decision to go to war and kill thousands of people is not the same as a decision to take a pleasant summer dive into a swimming hole.
Thus the strip is revolting to me and presumably, by so saying here, I have now automatically ensured my letter doesn't get an "Editor's Choice" status. So it goes.
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I don't usually respond to flames, but...
I thought this was supposed to be a civilized forum. It's inappropriate for this "Anonymous" to take my post, twist it into something it's not, and use the result to attack some third poster.
Perhaps THE EDITOR should weigh in here. The personal attacks are way out of hand. Hello, editor? Helloooooo?
True, the Yahoo News Groups are closed, but has all the traffic simply moved to Salon? Perish the thought!
(Door closing sound as I am done with this thread, 'bye all)
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Gonna make me work, are ya? Getcher "cool stuff" while it's still hot!
Here. www (dot) berkeleybreathed (dot) com/pages/Other_Cool_Stuff.asp
He even has a sub-outlet on eBay, just like I said.
So I'm right (as usual) and you are wrong (you've got a perfect score).
You hate me. I love it. Is that all you got?
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Glennski
Please stick around. It would be useful for you to send an email to the editors (any of them) at Salon and register your feelings about hateful anonymi.
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Where are the plush toys on that page?
It's the first one I went to, Garry. (See, I googled "Berkley Breathed," the PC asked me did I mean "Berkeley Breathed," and then I whizzed right to the page you found after you had to "work.")
No plush toys from "Communist China" or elsewhere.
Again: You and I agree that the strip is weak. Where we disagree is that I am not a fan of fighting and web-rage, as you yourself have said you are (on one of those Joan Walsh "Anonymous? Or not?" discussion fora). You go looking for it and attack to get responses, then act all hurt when you get back in kind what you gave. So, here, you liar.
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Garry Owen
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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The weekly Opus cycle
It's the exact same every week. Every week a new Opus cartoon comes out. Every week Garry Owen reads it and expresses his fury at the mundane sellout that Berk Breathed has become. Every week the ~40-year-old Bloom County fans get their panties in a wad about Garry's sacrilege.
Garry, you're very witty and I enjoy your turn of phrase, but frankly you're turning into a bit of a one-note cavalry bugle.
Everybody else, you have to admit that Berk has lost a bit of his edge. Re-read Bloom County Overture and you'll feel better.
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One of the "anonymi" has said (repeatedly) that the strip is "weak"
It appears that s/he is trying to out Garry Owen as a rage fiend.
And, yes, I will be "anonymous," too--I don't want to be stalked.
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What the hell?
Look Robbie, I'm NOT going go searching all over the web to find you that Opus plush toy you've been after. Google Opus Plush and you'll get there, about the third item down, I believe.
First you curse me, then you try to suck up to me, then you curse me again. Typical anonymous multi-personality disorder asshole.
Who is stalking whom here? I think you are jealous of me.
You can always just shut up. That would make everybody happy.