Opus

Opus is a Sunday strip by Berkeley Breathed. It is Breathed's fourth comic strip, following The Academia Waltz, Bloom County and Outland. Set in Bloom County, the strip documents the adventures of Breathed's popular character Opus the Penguin, parodying both pop culture and politics along the way. It was launched with much fanfare on November 232003, and is syndicated by Washington Post Writers Group. Opus is the title character and protagonist of the strip. Though he returned to Antarctica at the end of Outland, Opus has since traveled back home to Bloom County, only to find that time has changed everything and everyone he once held dear. His employment usually depends on the week's joke - since Opus began, he has so far been a political operative, a garbageman, and a newspaper ombudsman - but he is most often depicted as a syndicated cartoonist. While his mother is no longer "long-lost," she was not all he had imagined her to be after a decades-long search, and he is...