Bloom County

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Hello fellow Bloom County fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Bloom County is an American comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which originally ran from December 8, 1980, until August 6, 1989. It examined events in politics and culture through the viewpoint of a fanciful small town in Middle America, where children often have adult personalities and vocabularies and where animals can talk. On July 12, 2015, Breathed started drawing Bloom County again. The first revived strip was published via Facebook on July 13, 2015... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_County

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Bloom County!

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Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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submitted 5 months ago by MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works to c/bloomcounty@lemm.ee

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In retrospect, I wouldn't have minded if Steve's total frat-boy narcissism had been toned down a bit, initially.

That way when Bobbi and Steve first dated, we might have gotten the initial illusion that there was a semi-spark of mutual interest, setting up Bobbi's later realisation that Steve was just a hopeless idiot. In that way we would have had the pleasure of seeing Steve's ego actually bruised, with life offering him a teachable moment.

As is, with Bobbi's indifference right from square one, Steve had the luxury of bullshitting himself without getting truly invested, as he did with pretty much everything else in life.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

Hmm, that could have been interesting. I had not seen many of these early strips, and have been struck by how fully-formed Steve's character is from the beginning.

[–] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

True. Also, why would Bobbi, an educated, progressive woman, had gone on a date with such a clear red flag? I like your idea of more subtlety at first.

[–] Bricriu@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Because there's literally other no single guys her age in this tiny Midwest town, and he's new enough that he hadn't built up a rep.