When I was younger, I loved Bloom County.  When it ended, I was a tad sad, but thought everything wrapped up nicely.  When Breathed launched Opus, I read it of and on, but never felt it captured the crazy spirit behind Bloom County.  Perhaps it was the Sunday only appearance that left me feeling all “meh” inside.

Berkeley Breathed contacted the Los Angeles Times, announcing to the world, that now Opus will be ending its five year run on November 2, 2008.

“30 years of cartooning to end. I’m destroying the village to save it. Opus would inevitably become a ranting mouthpiece in the coming wicked days, and I respect the other parts of him too much to see that happen. The Michael Moore part of me would kill the part of him that was important to his fans.”

Opus will end with an online contest asking readers to guess the fate of the fan fave penguin.

via Hero Complex and Berkeley Breathed

Mike Sterling over at Mike Sterling’s Progressive Ruin has posted a smattering of funny ha-ha’s he whipped up way back in 1996.

Check the rest here.

via Progressive Ruin

When he threw his hat in the ring for President, Senator Obama had to know this image (from 8-14-06) would resurface and guarantee he got the vote from comic book readers.

I don’t blame him for striking the pose, as a kid I made my parents detour on a cross country trip just so we could go to Metropolis, IL and do the same thing.

via Barack Obama (link)