[News] Berkeley Breathed coming back to Bloom County!!

Dave

Dave

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Yes, I know this is more "Media" as it's web comics, but I think it's big enough news that it deserves to be in General.

BERKELEY FREAKING BREATHED IS STARTING BLOOM COUNTY BACK UP!!

This is like OMFG level of cool! For those of us who cut our comic teeth on this & Doonesbury, this is phenomenal news. The intelligence and humor of this strip can not be overstated. I fucking love this and everything about it.
 
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Huh. TIL Berkeley Breathed is a dude. I always assumed he was a woman with that name.
 
Dave

Dave

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This, by the way, is from his Facebook page. If/when he does it on a site, I won't just post the picture like that. I want him to get traffic so he keeps doing it!
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

I am shocked by how young he is. Relatively speaking, for somebody that has not had a really steady gig in 25 years. I know he did Outland and Opus, but those were flashes in the pan.
 
Thread Necromancer

Thread Necromancer

posting to watch thread for updates.

I started reading Bloom County before I could even understand the subtleties of the comic. I loved it as a kid, and now when I go back and re-read the collections I love them even more.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

I'm excited beyond words. I LOOOOOOVED Outland and Bloom County. I have very few comic strip collections and all of them are Outland, Bloom County or Calvin and Hobbes.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

I'm so excited for this! Bloom County (and all it's iterations) have been near and dear to my heart since I learned to read. Even if I didn't always understand the political comments, I could get a big laugh out of it. I'll probably be thumbing through my collection tonight, and take my plush Opus and Bill down from the shelf. They live again!
 
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I bet Jim Davis thinks that every night. As he falls asleep on his mattress stuffed with dollar bills.
 
CynicismKills

CynicismKills

So it looks like he's posting new strips to his FB page daily.

It's a great thing to pop up on the feed first thing in the morning, so glad he's back.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

jwhouk said:
Okay, random show of hands: how many people Googled "SUDS" and "NUNS" after that?
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Someone on his Facebook page said "Well, that's perhaps the best way I can think of to determine reach," and showed a graph with a HUMONGOUS spike for that day... the (wossname) graph, same one that Know Your Meme uses...
 
Bones

Bones

I like that one because if you woke him up at the end of every decade since the internet became a actual consumer service it would look different. Shit 1998 amazon looks down right paleolithic compared to 2015 amazon.
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Berkley's gonna have to watch it, or he's gonna have a biatch of a time trying to top the first week back.
 
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