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Outland, beginning to end. The strips are as great as I remember, but the occasional insightful comments from Berkeley Breathed himself make this volume that much better. And there on page 213 is the strip that brought us the frame on the cover, one that Mr. Breathed notes as his most requested strip. This is a must for all Bloom County/Outland/Opus and Breathed fans. The quality is right there with the first five that IDW has done so well. To note, the binding printing has returned to its foil-laden glory. This one is Golden, with Ronald-Ann being the featured character. Just love this. I'm a bit sad knowing that there is just one more to go. Think I'll go read the first five again now!

***Please note that Amazon seems to have had a challenge getting their fulfillment centers to ship this with proper packaging, so that the book arrives without damage. My copies have been shipped loose (not shrink-wrapped), so the volumes each have arrived with corner damage and surface damage to the covers. I am now on my fourth attempt. Should you have the same issue, please be persistent until they get it right.***


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Berkeley Breathed Outland The Complete Collection Bloom County Berkeley Breathed 9781613771761 Books Reviews

Outland was Berkeley Breathed's return to cartooning after ending his popular Bloom County daily comic strip at the height of its popularity. The Sunday-only Outland picked up where Breathed left off, introducing new characters, but keeping his keen commentary on the world intact.

This volume collects all of the Outland strips into one place, including some that haven't been collected before as far as I can tell. I remember reading Bloom County regularly when it was released, but many newspapers didn't carry Outland, so these were easy to miss. (Opus, which followed Outland, was even more difficult to follow; fortunately, the collected Opus strips are the next volume in the IDW series, with an ad for the book presented at the end of this volume.)

Truthfully, Outland was a little lifeless early on, with the first few strips focused on Ronald-Ann, Mortimer Mouse and Tim W. Forty. Not exactly household name characters (although Mortimer does indeed look like a very well-known Disney mouse), and the humor is not what I loved from Bloom County. The strips get going pretty quickly after Opus returns in the fifth strip, however. I think I'd have been less taken with the Sunday-only strips given this slow pace, but reading them back to back in this book is much easier to take. But it seems Breathed realized pretty quickly that familiarity was the key to Outland's continued survival. In fact, through the course of the strip, many more Bloom County characters would make appearances. The strip essentially became Bloom County without the Bloom County, if that makes sense.

For the buyer interested in pre-Bloom County material No Academia Waltz material is included in this volume as indicates in its information about the book. I think it was left over from the Bloom County volumes. Just a heads up if you were looking for any extras.

Overall, the book stands up well with the former Bloom County (Bloom County The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 1980-1982 (Bloom County Library) books in the series, and it's good to see the gold foil return on the spine. The book fits nicely on the shelf with the rest of the books.
I'm a big Bloom County fan, and read all of the collections of those, and then purchased this book. Outland was out during my high school/early college days, so reading comic strips is something I did less of, and therefore most of this material was new to me.

Outland was the successor to Bloom County, a popular comic strip that ran during the 80's featuring a small rural boarding house and its residents. Opus, the most recognizable and popular character from Bloom County, continues his adventures in Outland. Outland was a Sunday only strip that ran from 89-95. At the risk of way over simplifying, Bloom County/Outland can possibly be described as a Doonesbury (Political, social) meets The Far Side (Absurd). The early chapters of Outland feature Opus with Ronald-Ann, Bill D. Cat, Mortimer Mouse and Milquetoast the coachroach, but eventually familiar faces like Steve Dallas, Cutter John, and Binkley will return. I am slightly baffled as to why Milo did not.

The Outland strips in general were interesting. It was fun for to see some of the change in personal philosophy as culture changed from the early 80's to the mid 90's in Breathed. The downside of a Sunday only strip like this is that there seemed to be far less continuity or consistent story lines, which at times made it harder to get "in" to the strip and it's characters. I did like a lot of the art quality and some of the more surreal approaches Breathed took during this time. However, at the end of the day (with the exception of a few strips) - I just kept wishing I was reading Bloom County.

Secondly, as a collection, I was disappointed with the lack of comments from Breathed. To me, a big selling point of ALL these collection books is the author's thoughts, insights, and memories to kind of give you the inside track into some of the strips. Breathed comments on very very few of the strips in this collection. I am unsure if it's because he also didn't get "into" this strip as much as Bloom County, or if because they were more recent he found it less interesting to go back into his memory banks for, but I would have liked to have seen more comments.

I just get the vibe that Breathed himself wasn't quite sure what he was going for, or that his heart wasn't entirely into it. The seemingly dropped initial premise of the Outland itself, the coming and going of characters (past and present) and the eventual more or less return to Bloom County (albeit with an Outland name) makes it hard for this comic to really maintain its own flavor. The result ends up feeling like a muddled Bloom County 2.

I give this 3 stars because I think it's good and worth reading. It's probably not worth re-reading, and it's not as good as Bloom County - and the lack of comments give Breathed fans less of a reason to grab this if they already have other collections. If you're a newbie, make sure you start with Bloom County.
Outland, beginning to end. The strips are as great as I remember, but the occasional insightful comments from Berkeley Breathed himself make this volume that much better. And there on page 213 is the strip that brought us the frame on the cover, one that Mr. Breathed notes as his most requested strip. This is a must for all Bloom County/Outland/Opus and Breathed fans. The quality is right there with the first five that IDW has done so well. To note, the binding printing has returned to its foil-laden glory. This one is Golden, with Ronald-Ann being the featured character. Just love this. I'm a bit sad knowing that there is just one more to go. Think I'll go read the first five again now!

***Please note that seems to have had a challenge getting their fulfillment centers to ship this with proper packaging, so that the book arrives without damage. My copies have been shipped loose (not shrink-wrapped), so the volumes each have arrived with corner damage and surface damage to the covers. I am now on my fourth attempt. Should you have the same issue, please be persistent until they get it right.***