In another story, Opus wrote an autobiography, A Penguin's Story, which nobody bought. He fled Bloom County, and was absent for a long time, eventually reappearing lost in the desert, before his mother came to him in a hallucination and told him to return to his home. Another memorable story line featured Opus being the subject of moral scorn as a perpetrator of "penguin lust". Another story line led Opus, in search of his mother, to a Mary Kay Cosmetics testing building, which he was shocked to find out was cruelly using animals as test subjects for various cosmetics. He later regained his memory after being in a state of intense and total shock he heard an erroneous report that Diane Sawyer (on whom he had an enormous crush) had married Eddie Murphy.
In the tradition of many other popular characters, Opus apparently died (while unwillingly brought along on a balloon expedition to Washington, DC, to zap the ambassador from apartheid-era South Africa with a ray that would temporarily turn him black) only to return with amnesia. Over the years Opus has served as Steve Dallas' legal secretary, journeyed to Antarctica in search of his mother, played the tuba in heavy metal group Deathtöngue (later renamed Billy and the Boingers), wooed (and was nearly married to) an abstract sculptor named Lola Granola, worked as a newspaper personals editor, lifestyle columnist and comic strip writer, had brief, experimental stints employed as a farmer, garbageman and even a cartoonist (or, as he called it, a stripper, which he would also be at one point), and run for vice president on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket, along with his running mate Bill the Cat. There is never any mention of Opus' father if he ever knew him. He was separated from his mother at a young age, and much of his personality is therefore enmeshed in his sense of abandonment and yearning for a mother figure. Opus once mentioned his height during an interview for "The bureau of nosy statistics." In this comic strip he said that his height is two feet eleven inches.Īccording to Opus' back story, he is from the Falkland Islands, How he got from there to Bloom County is explained in "The Night Of The Mary Kay Commandos". Beginning in Outland during the 1990s, he is also occasionally seen inexplicably wearing white briefs. He is usually seen wearing a bow tie and collar, though he sometimes switches to a diagonally striped necktie when running for public office.
(In the final panel of the same strip, Opus responds by telling Binkley that he looks like a carrot.) Opus says he is attracted to "svelte buoyant waterfowl". Mike Binkley, during one Sunday strip, points out the fact that Opus more closely resembles a puffin, a revelation shocking to the sensitive Opus. Opus' appearance changed since his inception - he originally looked like a common penguin, but between 19 his nose grew dramatically (developing its signature bump in the middle, of which Opus is very self-conscious). Opus' popularity quickly grew until he became the signature character of Bloom County and of Breathed's subsequent comic strips.
After being featured in a few strips, the character was dropped for several months, before being gradually re-introduced in January 1982, and eventually becoming a central character in Bloom County. Opus was originally introduced in June 1981, as a one-time gag about hapless Mike Binkley bringing home what he thought was a German Shepherd, which turned out to be a penguin, much to the disappointment of his father. Breathed also included Opus in the sequel strip to Bloom County, Outland, and later made him the star of his own self-titled strip. Opus has appeared in several of Breathed's creations, most notably his 1980s comic strip Bloom County. Breathed has described him as an " existentialist penguin" and the favorite of his many characters. Penguin) is a fictional character created by artist Berkeley Breathed. An early Opus appearance in the strip Bloom County (February 14, 1982)
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