Bloom County burst onto the American comic scene in December of 1980 and it soon became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The quirky denizens of the strip included Milo Bloom, Steve Dallas, Michael Binkley, Cutter John, Bill the Cat, and Opus the penguin, along with so many others. Volume Two of the Bloom County Library continues right where volume one left off, with Berkeley Breathed's endearing, enchanting, and occasionally infuriating inhabitants of Bloom County treating us to their madcap adventures, cynical observations, and optimistic innocence - sometimes all at once!
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Berkeley Breathed lives and works in Santa Barbara, California and is the proud owner of a gentle pit bull named Ridley, a deaf dachshund named Milly, and a refugee mutt from the Puerto Rican streets named Pilar--splendidly flawed dogs, every one.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
EVEN BETTER THEN THE FIRST!,
This review is from: Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984 (Bloom County Library) (Hardcover)
This collection begins right where the last collection leaves off. It has many more strip then the first one and is has much funnier ones. Definitely recommend to any fan!
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Incredible Content, Image Quality is Still Fuzzy,
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This review is from: Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984 (Bloom County Library) (Hardcover)
I'll make this brief. This book gets 3 stars for only one reason: They reproduced the artwork poorly! Again!! If you look at my 4 star review and images of Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982 (Library of American Comics) you'll see that they screwed up the scans there too. For that volume there were two levels of image quality, bad & worse. "Fortunately", this entire volume is the better of the two (just bad).
This quality is still significantly worse than the original compilations that came out when the strip was still running. So, take a good look at the better image on that other review (the one with the black star in the panel), and compare it to the original compilation. Detail is still lost. The panel lines are fuzzy. Artwork is not as sharp. Take a look on every page on this volume, and you'll see a line above the page number. *That* line is fuzzy! I thought that maybe the printing press was just bad, but the page numbers are sharp as a tack. There is only ONE piece of artwork that is sharp. That is on the page near the back that advertises the upcoming third volume. A picture on the lower right shows Opus reading a Penthouse magazine, with the title "Madonna Nude Yet Again" emblazoned on the cover. Ze Meadow Morals Squad (Hodge-Podge, Portnoy & Milo)looms ominously behind him with a baseball bat. Sharp & clear, just as it should be. ALL the artwork in this volume should look as good! IDW: Whatever you did for this piece of art, do it for all the strips!! I saw the same problems with IDW's reproductions of Terry & the Pirates. I gave them a pass because the art is so old, and they probably had to scan newsprint for many. But here they have the originals! So why 3 stars instead of 4 like in Volume 1? I was giving them a chance to correct their errors on the second volume & they blew it. I sincerely hope that they fix these problems with volume 3. Is it the editor who is screwing up, or does Berke just not care about the end result? Does he see these volumes as just a cash cow? A lot of the comments written by him in the book suggest that he cares a lot less for his work than his fans. He thinks it's too dated to have any relevance today. Berke: You're wrong. Go read some old Doonsebury collections. They are even more topical, and they still hold up. Just like your work. When I was a kid, I didn't get your political references, but I still thought it was funny that a cat would fall in love with a woman by the name of Jeane Kirkpatrick. Come on Berke, this is the definitive set. Have IDW put some extra effort to get it right! On the plus side, There is a lot of strips that had never before made it into a compilation, a lot more commentary by Berke, and even some sketches at the end. The paper quality & binding is as good as the first volume. Buy it knowing that if you have the original compilations, you should not get rid of them.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Handsome hardcover collects classic "Bloom County" comic strips from 9/27/82 to 7/1/84,
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This review is from: Bloom County: The Complete Library, Vol. 2: 1982-1984 (Bloom County Library) (Hardcover)
This hardcover collects Berkeley Breathed's "Bloom County" comic strips that originally ran from September 27, 1982 to July 1, 1984. These were previously collected in trade paperback form in the last quarter of "Loose Tails", all of "Toons For Our Times" and the first half of "Penguin Dreams and Stranger Things". Strips appear in sequence, three dailies to a page, with Sunday strips each spanning one full-color page.
Breathed provides annotations throughout the book, explaining both his thoughts about the strips and pop culture references that young readers might find obscure. Ted Koppel provides the forward. The familiar cast of characters is here: Opus, Milo, Binkley, Steve Dallas, Cutter John, Bobbi Harlow, Oliver Wendell Jones, Hodge Podge, Portnoy, etc. Breathed gently satirizes both the political left and right: for example, on page 68, "Bloom Beacon" editor Milo is approached by respective caricatures of a gun zealot and misguided hippie in successive strips. I got into "Bloom County" a couple years after these strips appeared, devouring the aforementioned trade paperback collections in junior high school. Rereading these strips two decades later revealed some previously unappreciated jokes, such as the fake "Those Darn Feminists" cartoon drawn by "Buckley n' Safire". Some charmingly dated 1980s references inspire nostalgia, but the majority of this material remains culturally relevant. I enjoyed the Volume 1 collection: this material is even better. Very strong cases can be made for both "Calvin and Hobbes" and "The Far Side", but "Bloom County" remains my favorite comic strip of the 1980s.
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