Opus died today. . .

[Miss Critter]

For fans of Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County and Opus comic strips, today was a sad day. It marked the end of one loveable, sharply satirical, often bewidered penguin named Opus. With everything going on in the world today, it seems rather ludicrous to mourn a cartoon penguin. On the other hand, maybe I mourn him because of everything going on in the world today. And the way he met his (fictitious) end hit a bit too close to home for this animal lover. Sometimes the weight of the world makes being a grown up less fun than my childhood self was sure it would be. In the grand scheme of things, one cartoon penguin probably won't matter much, but tonight saying goodbye just makes me sad.

 

[FL Dawg]

I'm gonna miss that little fella.....and to think Bill the Cat continues on!!

 

[NoHall]

Opus is dead? I'm lost...we don't have the cartoon in our paper. If Breathed offed the poor little flightless bird, I'm gonna be upset.

Didn't Bill the Cat, of "Billy and the Boingers" fame, already die of a drug overdose in the '80s? Or was it just one of those publicity stunts?

 

[Poodleone]

Opus certainly went to a happier place

http://www.humanesociety.org/opus

As for Bill the Cat (from Wikipedia)

"Bill the Cat has returned to comics in Berke Breathed's latest strip, Opus. Given his ostensible death and revival by tongue cloning (a la Sleeper), his carcass was suggested as the source of the recent BSE (aka "Mad Cow Disease") epidemic. Later, he was chosen as the new mayor of Bloom County. He got the message when he was playing Garfield at a mall promotion (the child in his lap asked her father if Garfield had died). Mayoral efforts for Bill and Opus involved forcing low-jeans teenagers to wear suspenders. Bill, however, lost an election a few months later because of an affair with Paris Hilton."

 

[Smiling JOe]

You scared me for a moment.