I've been reading the Bloom County Library collection from IDW recently
and enjoying it quite a bit. It reprints ALL of the Bloom County strips,
many of which have never been included in any collection before. Bloom
County, while some of the strips are indeed timeless, is very much a
product of the 1980's. So much so that the IDW collection has
annotations telling readers who various celebrities are that might go
over the heads of readers who didn't grow up in that era.
Anyh
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I noticed a discernible difference between a strip from the 1983 "Loose
Tails" collection from Little Brown (top strip) and the same strip (on
the bottom) collected by IDW in 2009. I refer specifically to the first
panel of both versions of the strip. I am guessing the tamer version
was the one that ran in newspapers and the saltier version was what
Breathed wanted to go with but changed by the syndicate and eventually
printed in the 1983 collection.
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