Opus and Bill the Cat returning to comics?

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

from the notoriously inaccurate aint-it-cool-news.com, but it would be cool if true

http://www.aint-it-cool.com/display.cgi?id=15965

"Beginning sometime close to Thanksgiving of THIS YEAR... Berkeley Breathed is creating a Sunday-only strip called OPUS. Now you might be thinking... What's the biggie? If you are, you're a 'tard and need to wear diapers, but the Biggie is... When Berkeley retired Opus and crew back in 1995, no popular successful comic strip had ever been voluntarily retired when he did it. Thus starting a HORRIBLE TREND, which Watterson followed. Well... Since then, none of the strips that decided to cease being strips, have ever returned or had those characters come back in any newspaper form... so this is a first! In talking with Bill, I learned a bit about what Opus has been up to this past decade.

He couldn't say much, but apparently Opus' beloved mother was eaten in a spectacular incident not long ago involving a birthday gag gone awry with an elephant seal. That and the paternity suit Opus is facing from Ann Coulter over an egg has left him completely a mess.

Meanwhile... OPUS is a movie over at DIMENSION FILMS that is set to be directed by the man-god Berkeley Breathed and apparently he'll also be writing. "

[GOPisEvil]

1. They better not be teasing!

Nothing on the Bloom County web page.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. yeah, i checked there, too

the comics section of the paper is pretty stale these days (with the notable exception of boodocks). we could definitely use a brain-dead cat and a basselope to liven it up again.

[Shrek]

4. If it's a brain-dead cat you want

I give you . . . Bucky!

[alfredo]

7. yep, good but not in the league of Bill the Cat

Some good comix here. http://www.stus.com/3majors.htm
scroll down to Over the Hedge. Sammy the squirrel is pretty messed up in a Bill sort of way. This is kind of Pogo's evil twin comic strip.

9 chickweed Lane has very good artwork, and the cat is too cool.

[zekeson]

3. I certainly hope it happens

and my favorite Christmas special of all time is "A Wish For Wings That Work", so I am certain the movie will be great.

[TacticalPeek]

5. A precursor?

http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/2003/08/31/

Maybe its the double-0's?

[alphafemale]

6. "and the paternity suit Opus is facing from Ann Coulter over an egg..."

LOL!