Bloom County or Doonesbury?

[Tonitrus]

The mention of both these classic comic series's in recent days has inspired me to create this poll.

As Bloom County ended at the end of the 80's, and Doonesbury seems immortal, this comparison should probably be isolated to that one decade.

And though Doonesbury seems to be regarded as the "classic", I never really cared for it but had always like Bloom County.  Though I also thought Trudeau and Breathed's drawing/art style were almost identical.

[Admiral Yi]

Doonesbury runs laps around Bloom County.  The much better showdown IMO is Doonesbury vs. Calvin & Hobbes.

[Eddie Teach]

Never really cared for either of those, or the conservative counterpart(Prickly City is it?). The kind of lame jokes that are barely tolerable in a strip about family life are made even worse when there's some partisan political point trying to be made.

[Tonitrus]

Doonesbury runs laps around Bloom County.  The much better showdown IMO is Doonesbury vs. Calvin & Hobbes.

C&H is the best, but the focus here is political satire, not overall comic greatness.

[Ideologue]

Bloom County by a country mile.  Doonesbury is great and all, but Bloom County is genius beyond measure.  I'd actually put Breathed over Watterson.

[CountDeMoney]

It's like the argument between Hitler and Stalin.  OBP versus hitting for average.


Doonesbury's had it moments over the years, but Bloom County made me laugh so hard sometimes I teared up.

[Norgy]

I love Bloom County.
It had some fantastic moments.

Outland less so, but still quite good. I've never gotten Doonesbury.

[jimmy olsen]

Bloom Country.

Doonesbury was never that funny.

[Ed Anger]

I love Bloom County.
It had some fantastic moments.

Outland less so, but still quite good. I've never gotten Doonesbury.

Bloom county was great. Outland is like looking at 2 week old dog turd in the grass. Or the puddle in the bed after sex. Or that brown ring in the can after a monster shit.

[DontSayBanana]

Bloom County, no contest.  My favorite comic strip of all time.

Outland was crap.  Opus was better, but it was too little, too late.

I did like Doonesbury, but I liked the '80s strips much better than the current ones.  Something about the Reagan and Mk I Bush administrations just made for funnier political satire.  Maybe it's the way they still pretended to function on statesmanship- the last couple of administrations have already been caricatures so extreme that political jokes just feel like a ripoff.

[CountDeMoney]

I've never gotten Doonesbury.

Doonesbury has a lot of inside jokes and character storylines that someone who hasn't followed it since the McGovern campaign won't always get or appreciate.

[Josquius]

Have I inadvertantly stumbled through a portal into a parallel dimension? 
None of these names means anything to me. 

[grumbler]

Bloom County always went for the most obvious possible joke.  I don't think I found a single strip of Bloom County actually funny.  Doonesbury could surprise me on occasion (though it certainly didn't most of the time, but that's the nature of humor).  Doonesbury by a mile.

I wouldn't take the collected Bloom County if you offered it to me for free.

[grumbler]

Have I inadvertantly stumbled through a portal into a parallel dimension? 
None of these names means anything to me. 

They are US cartoon strips.  No reason why you should know anything about them.  It would be like an American who knew about Coronation Street.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

apples & orange in my mind. the best thing about Bloom County (like Calvin & Hobbes) is that Breathed knew when to quit. Doonesbury I haven't kept up with since the 90's though. I read both voraciously back in the day. I was the only 8 year old in my town who told/got Nixon/HST jokes iirc.