Story highlights "Bloom County" was one of the most popular comic strips of the 1980s

Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed posted a new one for the first time in 26 years

(CNN) "Bloom County" is back on the beat.

On Sunday, cartoonist Berkeley Breathed -- who created the Pulitzer Prize-winning comic strip "Bloom County" -- announced on Facebook that he was returning to the strip, and he followed it up Monday with the first publication of "Bloom County 2015."

A return after 25 years. Feels like going home. Posted by Berkeley Breathed on Sunday, July 12, 2015

Fans were immediately besotted with the return of Opus the Penguin and the ever-cynical Milo Bloom.

This makes me unreasonably happy - Opus the Penguin is coming back! Berkeley Breathed Returning to Bloom County http://t.co/JNJdM0C16v — Daryl Orts (@DarylOrts) July 13, 2015

This is pretty much how I feel knowing Bloom County is back. pic.twitter.com/xFxKHpeqbN — Jeff Edelstein (@jeffedelstein) July 13, 2015

Today is going to be a great day. Bloom County returns. https://t.co/oswr2rhpNM — Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) July 13, 2015

"This makes me unreasonably happy - Opus the Penguin is coming back!" tweeted Daryl Orts.

Other fans posted photos of Opus lying in the strip's bucolic meadow or favorite editions of the 1980s strip.

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