Classics of Western Literature: Bloom County 1986-1989
 Classic BC/O Primer: I'd already owned all of the Bloom County and Outland books, this being my last purchase. I had seen it in the bookstore when it was published, but figured I already had the strips contained therein - why spend the extra money? I [... more]
$12.95
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Goodnight Opus
a witty read- no matter your age: love the pictures in this!! its got so many little details- you notice something new every time. and its crazy imagination that today's children's books are seriously lacking. my favorite part is with abe lincoln- " [... more]
$15.95
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Bloom County "Loose Tails"
Bloom County: The Beginning: Here you will find the beginning of one of the most inspired comic strips ever put to paper. No other strip made me laugh as hard, or as often, as "Bloom County". In fact, pretty much nothing else in the whole wide [... more]
$9.95
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Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (Storyopolis Books)
Amazon.com Review: Berkeley Breathed ("Bloom County") continues his successful second life as a first-rate children's storyteller. In the spirit of A Wish for Wings That Work and Red Ranger Came Calling, Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big celebrates [... more]
$16.45
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A Wish for Wings That Work: An Opus Christmas Story
A Penguin State of Mind: While there are other characters in the funny pages that I do like, such as Charlie Brown, Ziggy, Marmaduke, the dog from Pooch Cafe, and Mooch and Earl, no one compares to Opus. He is never unkind, he finds beauty in everything, [... more]
$14.95
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Red Ranger Came Calling
My Ultimate Christmas Story: The Red Ranger Came Calling has overtaken every other book, even my now #2 pick How The Grinch Stole Christmas, as my "must-tell" Christmas story. I am not able to read it aloud without tearing up at some point, [... more]
$17.60
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Politically, Fashionably, and Aerodynamically Incorrect: ...
Actually.... 4 1/2 stars, but I can't choose that....: This is the first Outland collection, and Berkeley Breathed writes in the introduction: "I'm proud of the 'toons in this book. I had more fun drawing many of these than usual. As in Bloom County [... more]
$10.95
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Toons for Our Times: A Bloom County Book of Heavy Metal ...
The times being the early 1980s: The beloved characters all appear. Milo remains well-supplied with nightmares from his anxiety clost, Steve Dallas remains un-supplied with tact or charm, and Opus displays his huge supply of innocent bafflement. Winsome [... more]
$10.95
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The Last Basselope: One Ferocious Story
A Laugh Out Loud Basselope Story: Opus is hunting for the world's last basselope, a creature so fierce, so mean, that in olden times "the mere sight of one of them in a dinosaur neighborhood would inspire ripsnorting dinosaur pandemonium lasting for [... more]
$14.95
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Night of the Mary Kay Commandos Featuring Smell O-Toons
One of the best of the Bloom County collections.: Which is interesting, considering that it's very late in the run of the series, and for the most part, the earlier strips are funnier. But this one's the exception to that rule; most of the political [... more]
$7.95
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Happy Trails
Bloom County Rides off into the sunset...: Happy Trails begins with Opus deciding to get an illegal back-alley liposuction of his nose, and ends with him saying "Good-bye" to all of the familiar faces and places of Bloom County on the way to [... more]
$8.95
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Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things (A Bloom County Book)
Berke Breathed is great: Bloom County was one of the greatest comic strips ever to have existed, and possibly the best comic in the whole decade of the 1980's and that was when Calvin and Hobbs (by Bill Watterson) and The Far Side (by Gary Larson) were [... more]
$11.95
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