| Yes, it is of vital importance that you all know this. |
[Nov. 19th, 2008|01:25 am] |
So back when I was a wee little thing, I read this one comic called Bloom County that we had a bunch of books of, and the damn things ended up so well-read that it's a wonder they even stayed apart. That comic, along with Calvin and Hobbes, was the main thing that made me want to draw stuff. I doodled Opus the penguin in my sketchbook when we studied pop art at school. Bloom County is the reason I know who Donald Trump is. And then it had a sequel called Outland that we only had one book of, and I loved it but I somehow never ended up following it.
Fast forward a little over a decade, and now apparently there was another sequel I knew nothing about, called Opus, where the main character finally got a kind of closure. Seriously, the only squabble I had with the comics was when they would do these themes where everything changed and it was often for the worse. (Yes, but shh, I was allowed to be freaked out by some strange and realistic things when my age hadn't yet hit double figures.) And now I'm (a) filled with the desire to hunt this down (and Outland, too) and read every strip, and (b) surprising myself by doing that not-so-teary tearing-up thing that I sometimes do.
And I found this out via fandom_wank. Fandom_wank. Wth, universe. xD |
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