Bloom County has been a mainstay in the lives of comic strip readers for decades. It first launched in 1980 and ran until 89 before going on a 25-year hiatus and being revived by creator Berkley Breathed in 2015. Even during its break, the strip was still popular in reruns through syndicated publishing. The series even had its own animated holiday special in 1991, A Wish For Wings That Work, which featured iconic voices like Robin Williams, Tress McNeill, Frank Welker, and Dustin Hoffman as Milquetoast the Cross-Dressing Cockroach.
Deadline is now reporting that Opus, Bill The Cat, and their friends are heading to Fox’s animation slate as a new series. Here’s what creator Breathed had to say:
“At the end of Alien, we watched cuddly Sigourney Weaver go down for a long peaceful snooze in cryogenic hyper-sleep after getting chased around by a saliva-spewing maniac, only to be wakened decades later into a world stuffed with far worse. Fox and I have done the identical thing to Opus and the rest of the Bloom County gang, may they forgive us.”
If you want a little treat, take a break and watch the Wish For Wings That Work cartoon below: