The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982

One of the funniest newspaper comic strips of the 1980s. This first collection is the roughest, though. Opus and most of the gang do not yet look like they do later on (Opus actually looks like a penguin), the jokes are very dated (Reagan bashing, nuclear disarmament, Michael Jackson(!)) so if you're new to Bloom County this might not be the best collection to start with.

But for those of us who read the strips in the morning paper or collected the paperbacks and read them until they fell apart, this hard-cover edition is a must have for our library.