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viscousmemories
09-02-2007, 06:22 AM
Brace yourselves for the controversial Bloom County strip that various papers across the nation refused to publish. Definitely NSFW.

http://images.salon.com/comics/opus/2007/09/02/opus/story.jpg
Ari
09-02-2007, 07:09 AM
Ha!
That made me laugh more than every BC and Dilbert comic I've read.
SharonDee
09-02-2007, 02:46 PM
Brace yourselves for the controversial Bloom County strip that various papers across the nation refused to publish. Definitely NSFW.I don't get it. Why is it controversial? :scratch:
livius drusus
09-02-2007, 02:48 PM
Because papers are scared of any comic that might be perceived as mocking or disrespecting Islam on account of the whole Danish cartoon thing a while back. Everyone but Salon refused to run last weeks strip as well because of the Lola Granola conversion story line.

Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won't Run 'Opus' Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294779,00.html)
SharonDee
09-02-2007, 02:50 PM
Ohhh ... I see. I'd forgotten about the Dutch thing.

I saw last week's strip online (as I do all my comics) but didn't think anything of it. I guess I'm guilty of taking our freedom for granted.
Ari
09-02-2007, 06:03 PM
I like the "because of the sexual innuendo in the punchline." I've seen more sexual innuendo in a PG movie.
ms_ann_thrope
09-02-2007, 09:49 PM
My local paper (a Knight-Ridder joint) ran this week's 'Opus' cartoon, BUT changed Steve Dallas' last statement to read, "...is how we're gonna straighten out the world," not "...the Middle East."

The ran last week's too, but without any edits.
viscousmemories
09-02-2007, 10:08 PM
Yeah, the Washington Post wouldn't even print the one with the 'world' edit.
Cynical-Chick
09-03-2007, 04:38 AM
And yet the WP won't edit that fucking existentialist clown so that it is funny.
livius drusus
09-05-2007, 10:29 PM
Turns out, the inventor of the burquini (http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/09/05/opus/index.html) thought the comic ruled.
viscousmemories
09-05-2007, 10:34 PM
That link doesn't work for me.
livius drusus
09-05-2007, 10:37 PM
Huh. Works for me. It's Salon's Broadsheet. You get a commercial if you're not subscribed/logged in.
Uthgar the Brazen
09-05-2007, 10:38 PM
I got a "YOU HAVE ENTERED A DEN OF INIQUITY TURN BACK NOW!" popup.

Stupid work.