Sid the Sexist he has single-mindedly committed himself: having sex." He is a coarse and unsophisticated 30-year-old who still lives with his mother, a fact which often poses as a stumbling block to any potential liaison, and is unable or unwilling to use any kind of decorum when approaching women, instead using outrageously crude lines that never succeed in achieving anything beyond rejection or a violent response from the woman in question. In one of his most famous examples from an early issue of "Viz", Sid approaches a woman with; "How, pet, my name's Sid. D'ya fancy a fuck?" When answered with a
Outland (comic strip) the original comic "Bloom County" focused on his quest to find her). Eight years later, Breathed abandoned retirement and picked up where "Outland" had left off. The result was the Sunday-only reunion strip, "Opus". Many "Outland" strips have never been reprinted in color, though all appeared in black & white in "Comics Revue" magazine. "Outland" strips also appeared in the 2004 book "Opus: 25 Years of His Sunday Best", which reprinted strips from "Bloom County" and the new "Opus" strip as well. Outland (comic strip) Outland is a comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995.