...for censorship.

When I was a kid, Buck Rogers was just getting off to a good start. L'il Abner was going strong. A color Sunday comic had a full page.

Bloom County, Opus and things like that were in the far distant future.

The Great Depression was in full swing.

Adolph Hitler was getting off to a start. He ended depression in Germany by building Autobahns. His ideas of world conquest came later.

Japan was attacking China. Pearl Harbor was just a place in Hawaii.

Gas was ten cents a gallon. On the 2 lane highways, Burma Shave signs were fun.

There was no such thing as television.

It took 3 or 4 days to get to the east coast.

There was no smog. The population was reasonable.

One could get just about anywhere on a trolley.

Opus would be happy.

I think it will be Milo's Meadow. A lot of good times spent in deep though there, in the early days of Bloom County.

I think Opus let his little doggie buddy go with the coconut babes to the Island. Opus has a long, rich life. Scruffy could use some good times.

Thank you, Opus, for all you've given us.

I'm hoping that Opus will go back to Bloom County for a dandelion break that has no end.

probably too easy: http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/bestselling-comics-2006/2485-1.jpg

That Opus and the American dream are ending at the same time. Good-bye America, it was a noble experiment. Too bad it didn't work out.

The real world sucks these days.

and damned proud of it.

Been a fan since Bloom County: TOS. Rock on.

yeah, I've been thinking dandelions as well. of course it's the obvious choice, but--coconut bras or no--that weed-covered hill is Opus' real happy place.

i love where Mr. Dallas is ending the run!

Hey, diddle, diddle!

The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon;

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

This was one of the clues, shown on the wall. Not very logical but Opus is often not logical.

Perhaps Opus did not go to any place but has gone to a when.

Opus is half white, half black. So is Senator Obama and BB has introduced that idea. It looks like Senator Obama is solving the race problem.

The end comes just before the election and BB has certainly been interested in that.

The animal shelter must be part of the answer. A Ten Grand part.

Somewhere over the Rainbow was introduced when I was young.

The bullet proof protection at the groin level is wise.

Thee angry Rottweiler from MSM has been released.

A New York Time kiddy dorm bathrobe is of no use.

New's report all "weenies" get chewed for reporting.

The news about war lies, and cover-up of truth? Bit!

I hope a child book is written. Opus is fun to `ad Lib.

Often, Sunday's comics are impromptu `Opus scrips.

Four yea-olds are enriched from `Berekley Breathed.

Opus will be fine.

Opus blessed us.

Ah!

You made me want to dance.

It's time to rent a ball tuxedo.

Opus. No bawl. Opus sow oats.

Aw!

Wild. Hop on a Buggy. Boogie Aw!

Ah! O Wanna Wag Tail. Wow. Wonk.

Ah! O Hula Hoot and Hootenanny's.

Gone? No. Mule HeeHaw, WahWahs.

Opus Rides a Broom Stick To Bloom.

I guess this means no Billy and the Boingers reunion tour, huh?

The south pole, of course. Familiar and safe.

And warm.

South Pole, to spend time with his mother (and maybe a family?).

One free-associating robot is enough, thanks. If that.

Just for the record ...

The first Buck Rogers strip was in 1929. L'il Abner started in 1934. Hitler had gone a long way toward world conquest by the time Japan was attacking anyone.

Ah, memory.

Not that mine is any better, of course. I had to look up the first two things online.

I suspect that all the stuff about being a cartoon character in a pretend world, and all the references to the Sunday funnies, is hinting towards a meta, postmodern sort of ending. I wouldn't be surprised if Opus has escaped to another comic strip.

Maybe in the end he'll be spending eternity with good ol' Charlie Brown and the gang? After all, Breathed said in that last interview "If I could do 'Peanuts,' that's what I'd be doing."

...and now we know that Mr Breathed isn't actually too physically sick to go on, just sick of it all, we can have some hope that he'll restart in a few years if things improve.

But I'm still laughing at this last one.

Hitler did not get started on war until September 1939. There had been preparations of course but no one was paying much attention.

My grandfather came from Germany. He died at the age of 90 in November 1941. Some time before that, Mom asked her father-in-law what he thought of Hitler. His answer was that Hitler was not a Christian but that he was good for Germany.

Neville Chamberlain had been to see Hitler and said that we had "peace in our time."

Japan attacked China in 1894 and seized Taiwan (Formosa). Japan took Korea in 1910. In 1931, Japan invaded Manchuria, long before Hitler got control of Germany.

President Roosevelt (Teddy) thought that he had calmed Japan, but no such luck.

Believe you me, us scruffy Sunday morning cartoon readers do not want to be staring at your man bits.

I did originally guess that the happy place of Opus was the dandelion meadow. But now I don't know.

So maybe a previous commenter's guess is right. Maybe he will end it on top of Snoopy's doghouse.

think I figured it all out as to where opus now is at. berkley breathed used the dandelion filled meadow to symbolize " heaven". [ no! not that fire filled evangelical "christian" heaven where sarah moose-snatch and john mc viagra dick are going to join their friends like charles keating and G.W. bush-hole!LOL].

and the animal shelter? well I assume they " put him down humanely", opus, that is; in their enthanizing chamber. at which point, opus' soul went back to that meadow filled with those danderlions; which could've been a field in south america's faulkner islands; where yes, they actually have penguins living in the southern hemisphere's winter.

but the best part was with steve, the average american consumer culturalist whom represents the stubborn REPUBLICAN; screaming out shit about his " living in the real world" where deregulated industries supposedly police themselves without govt interference![ ?????]

think I've got to e-mail this one to my still voting republican sister; the one whom really feels that mc cain's plan is better for those whom, well; " work hard to get where they are in the REAL WORLD".[world of crooks, liars, and legal thieves whom steal elections!]