This is it! This isn’t where Opus was born into the strip, but this is where Breathed made a conscious choice to focus on him after being just a throwaway joke about Binkley six months prior.
It’s my boy, and I get to watch him grow up again.
Yep, Bloom County was long gone in 1987 (nevermind, had it wrong, they had two years left before Outland in 1990), I think the OP of that strip just made a typo because they also post Calvin & Hobbes daily, which has a similar but different time frame. They’ve made the same mistake before, no big deal. S’posed to say 1981.
This is it! This isn’t where Opus was born into the strip, but this is where Breathed made a conscious choice to focus on him after being just a throwaway joke about Binkley six months prior.
It’s my boy, and I get to watch him grow up again.
Strip for reference: 1987 June 26
Edit: Hang on a sec, 1987? Was one of these strips posted with the wrong date?
Yep, Bloom County
was long gone in 1987(nevermind, had it wrong, they had two years left before Outland in 1990), I think the OP of that strip just made a typo because they also post Calvin & Hobbes daily, which has a similar but different time frame. They’ve made the same mistake before, no big deal. S’posed to say 1981.