Letters to the Editor
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This guy has elgance
A certain je ne sais qua...
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Shaken, not stirred
And may I say, Mr. Breathed, that you have an alarming resemblance to a certain favorite spy of mine. Or does he resemble you? Hmmm.
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Best Opus so far!
Of course the people who have a problem with Dumbledoors "sodomite lifestyle" must have not been listening when their pastor also told them to keep their children away from "Harry Potter" for it's "promotion of witchcraft" if they are worried about their children being exposed to "ungodly" influences.
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Scottish?
Wow, Connery wrote Opus?
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Resembalance
More like a cross between Sean Connery and Buddy Cole.
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00 Nothing, Licensed to dull.
Do you expect me to laugh Mr. Breathed?
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Je ne sais QUOI
Apprenez la langue, ou utilisez l'anglais.
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Jim Davis has called out the hit squad on you, Breathed.
And he's mysterious. He lives way the heck out in the country somewhere. He probably has a concrete bunker compound similar to that of "Billy Jack" Laughlin, full of semiauto weapons and RPG launchers. He is very jealous of anyone who screws with his cat. He only let one guy, Mark Evanier, do the animated series. He's that paranoid.
As they said in Kill Bill, you didn't think it would be that easy, did you?
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Poor Bill
Always misrepresented...
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Ha HA! Garfield's Gay, What a Slam! And "Breathed"'s a Hiiii-larious Gay Stereotype! How Rich!
How nice to wake up this morning and discover, for the eight-millionth time, that being gay is still a punchline.
The idea that someone might be gay? Endless hilarity! Comic gold! It's the joke that never goes out of style!
Hardy har har.
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Drawing
Why is Breathed's hand holding the martini glass drawn so poorly in the first two panels? It looks like he forgot to finish it.
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Do you expect me to laugh Mr. Breathed?
No, Mr. Anonymous, I expect you to die ... of boredom.
Goldfinger, he ain't.
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Wonderful
Just wonderful.
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Damn good thing he didn't decide to go into portraiture
Just for shits and giggles I searched Google Images for pics of BB and there is plenty to choose from -- not even one resembling old Sean Connery here. Most recent pics he looks like Jeff Foxworthy, kind-of, and some of his older publicity shots floating around are positively disturbing. I like that 1970s shot where he's seated in a director's chair with his bare foot pointed at the camera like a ballet dancer. He looks like a cross between Harry Reems (Deep Throat), Chuck Negron (Three Dog Night), Freddy Prince (Goner), and/or Geraldo doing gay lounge lizard.
But James Bond? Fuggitaboutit.
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Anonymous (Who else?) wrote:
"Do you expect me to laugh Mr. Breathed?"
No, but we do expect you to punctuate properly. You're in the company of big folks, Thee of no Glee (And there's your moniker, little fella!).
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So is that why Garfield has an eating disorder
Self loathing?
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Martini glass
Duh, obviously it's hard to draw while holding a martini glass, especially when you're drawing the hand that's holding it with a cigarette in the other hand.
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Just waiting for the real penguin to appear tonight
Waiting for Sparky, and This Modern World. Also, waiting for Bebop to show up with some scat poetry. Hey bop-man, didja hear, the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Cav is DEROS'ing to CONUS as we sit here. All out by Feb of 08. Hooo Ahaaa!
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Not a slam...
Bobbyjoe:
The joke isn't that Garfield is gay. The joke is that BB is calling out Rowling for not having the courage to out Dumbledore ealier, and yet lacks the courage to actually out any of the characters in his own strip, instead pawning off the outing to another character. Essentially, he pokes at our world, for being such a place.
At least that is my read.
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Well put, Poet.
However, BobbyJoe does make a good point: that being gay is funny.
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Damn!
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Garry Owen
Actually, I think Mr Breathed looks most like Mark on GB Trudeau's "Doonesbury."
But I'm pretty sure BB knows he doesn't look like Sean Connery.
Just like he knows most penguins don't much look like Opus.
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Hi Folks:
This particular comic strip is, most definitely, not a big deal. So enjoy it (or not) and your Sunday.
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Outland? Not So Much.
Hi, hedonistpoet,
I'd like to agree with you about Breathed's intent, but it's all the needless lines like "messy secrets" and-- mainly-- Breathed's need to present himself as a fictionalized gay stereotype in (rolling eyes) a lavender sweater. If Breathed does a cartoon on racial issues, does he appear in blackface?
If Breathed wanted to make a joke about his own cowardice on gay characters in his strip, he might have just pointed out that while Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau outed one of his main characters fifteen years ago (and even the family strip "For Better or For Worse" tackled a character coming out as gay in the early 1990's), Breathed meely used Steve Dallas's outing as a cheap joke when he ended "Bloom County" and thought he wasn't going to be using the character anymore, and then later when "Outland" didn't work and he needed his old characters back, de-gayed Steve Dallas with what Breathed charmingly titled "De-Poofta" therapy.
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In-joke
I laughed at this one, but I think it's because of BB's war on Garfield which he has deservedly been waging for, oh, quarter of a century now. If you didn't know this, I would have thought it wouldn't make much sense. Or be funny.
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You know..
after all these years, and Garfield never did get married..
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Opus is a Theosocat Raptureass
The only way to get into Berkeley Breathed mind this week is to first read the Sunday cartoon scrip Pickles. They collaborated on Saturday before contributing to Salon.
In order to have 25% more time to to scat, read, and letter write each day: shave only 75% of the back, chin, face, legs, and underarms.
Opus scat on Owen.
Owen shave Opus back.
Owen lathers B.B.'s legs.
Opus smoochy with Gary Owen.
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Well John maybe...
Does anyone else remember when Garfield's owner John used to live with a guy? His name was Lyman, had a suspicious moustache, and he was Odie's first owner. I always wondered what happened to him. Maybe John was trying to cover up with all that over the top courtship of the lady vet.
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But when there is smoke !!! The real truth:
Mr Breathed outed here ?
MY NIGHT WITH BERKELEY BREATHED
http://www.platypuscomix.net/otherpeople/nightwithberke.html
To retain your outrage, you should not read much beyond the headline. But that should not be a problem, them as want to be outraged rarely do ;-))
regards JakobA