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@ Pop Syndicate-- Bloom County The Complete Library Volume One: 1980-1982

"Bloom County The Complete Library Volume One: 1980-1982 is an odd mix of looking back at the past but having to reflect on the present.  Ronald Reagan was President, the USSR still existed and still had their nukes.  There was a sharp divide between the conservatives and the liberals.  The Moral Majority tried to tell us what to watch and what to think.  And in the midst of all of this, the United States was going through one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression.  America wasn’t all that different of a country in 1980 than it is in 2009 which is a bit comforting but mostly sad.  We haven’t been able to put aside our political leanings that keep the country divided or really improve any of our foreign relationships.  It may seem like Reaganomics and Star Wars was so long ago but Breathed’s early Bloom County strips show us that they’re still relevant in the age of Obama and our current economic troubles."

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Occasionally while writing reviews, there are lines that pop up that I can't believe I wrote.  This review is actually filled with paragraphs that I can't believe I wrote.  But one of my favorite lines from this review is "Everyone from Hare Krishnas to Mr. Rogers in one way or another tries to indoctrinate Opus but he remains oblivious to their temptations of conformity and mass acceptance."  This line is true for this volume but of course, we see Opus searching for someplace to belong during the rest of the cartoon strips but he still always comes back to Bloom County and to just being a loveable water fowl.