Happy Trails

by Berkeley Breathed

This book contains selections from the author's comic strip, Bloom County. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316107417
• ISBN13: 9780316107419
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Bloom County Rides off into the sunset...

Happy Trails begins with Opus deciding to get an illegal back-alley liposuction of his nose, and ends with him saying "Good-bye" to all of the familiar faces and places of Bloom County on the way to the sequel "Outland". On the pages that intervene Berkeley Breathed gets in some hilarious and dead-on pokes at religious fanatics, Donald Trump, Swimsuit Editions, and phone solicitors.Not quite as coherent a collection as the previous books as Breathed tries to get in his "last shots" before retiring Bloom County forever, this book is still hilarious and interesting, and a must-have for those looking to complete their BC collection.

wow

This book was very sad.For those who have read Bloom County before it is a must read.And the ones who haven't,still,it is a must read.The ending to this magnificent comic strip was done in excelent taste.You can feel the sorrow as it is over,never to be done again.The charcters are great,which makes it so sad.It truely is a gift on what he did in this last book.I cried,I laughed,I jumped on dandylions.

A fitting end to one of the greatest strips

It is a testament to the talents of Berke Breathed that well over ten years after he suspended "Bloom County," it is still sorely missed by its legions of fans, myself included. Once described as "Doonesbury with animals," "Bloom County" took on a life of its own, and what a life it was. "Happy Trails" consists of strips from the County's last year, and all the familiar characters are here--Opus, Bill, Steve Dallas, Cutter John, Milo, and Hodgepodge--as well as a couple of new characters who would star in Breathed's follow-up strip "Outland." Breathed's observations are dead on, and the strips will often have you thinking--once you get enough oxygen back to your brain after laughing so hard. With the possible exception of "Dilbert," no comic today has the fan loyalty that "Bloom County" did--and now that Charles Schultz is no longer with us, I doubt any will again.

A great and funny collection of comics!

As a young reader, I had no idea about most of the politics during the 80's, so missed much of the humor until a few years ago. My Bloom County books, bought from Half Price Books, are worn from me reading them so many times...since I finally understand the cynical humor in them. Much funnier than any comics in the current comic pages of my newspaper, books like these are a good buy for anyone!

....It's OVER?!

Well, it's over.But not quite! Outland! However slightly different, it's there and good too.This book is good, and a sad goodbye at the end. Makes me wonder what happened to Cutter John, though!