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Breathed, infamously reclusive, said in a press release that 2022 might be good timing for the “Bloom County” characters, comparing their revival to the awakening of Ellen Ripley, Sigourney Weaver’s character from the 1986 film “Aliens.”
“At the end of ‘Alien,’ we watched cuddly Sigourney Weaver go down for a long peaceful snooze in cryogenic hyper-sleep after getting chased around by a saliva-spewing maniac, only to be wakened decades later into a world STUFFED with far worse. Fox and I have done the identical thing to Opus and the rest of the ‘Bloom County’ gang, may they forgive us.”
There is always something about America that is worthy of gentle mockery and baffled observation by the “Bloom County” characters, so 2022 might be a good time to revisit Breathed’s punk rock need to poke holes in some well-established institutions. From the press release:
“Bloom County” centers on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.
Breathed was always keen on commenting on America’s foibles, and, indeed, the original strip ended with the sub-feline cat Bill teaming up with Donald Trump to buy out the strip. Children of the 1980s recall sharply when Donald Trump was nothing other than a figure of widespread mockery and derision throughout media; sitcoms regularly made jokes at his expense, and MAD Magazine had a field day with the man. It was when Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015 that Breathed revived “Bloom County” as “Bloom County 2015,” a Facebook-only strip that he published himself. Now, during the Biden administration, Breathed appears to want to take stock of where we are and where we just were.
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