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Billy
and the Boingers Bootleg is the fourth collection of Bloom County comic strips. The Sunday comic strips
appear in color and are clumped into small groups of two to four strips
and may not necessarily follow the
dailies in their designated spots, which can be a little confusing if
the Sunday was in reference to the previous week’s happenings. All of
the dailies appear in black and white.
At the beginning of the book are
two songs and their lyrics. The songs are by Billy and the Boingers,
which has Steve Dallas as the lead vocalist, "Wild" Bill Cat
playing the Electric Tongue, Opus Croakus, looking like Gene Simmons of
KISS, playing the electric tuba, and Hodge-Podge playing drums. The
songs are "I'm a Boinger" and
"U-Stink-But-I-Love-U." Between pages 10 and 11 is an insert
of a 33 1/3 speed record that has both songs on it. This can be torn out
of the book and played on a record player. The only new characters added in
this book is Lola, Opus's fiance, and Rosebud, the Basselope.
The following storylines appear in this
book: Communist Bill, Sean Penn vs. Steve Dallas, Star Wars, Opus'
Biological Clock is Ticking, Franklin Fights Dish Scrambling, Lola, The
Royals, Opus the Cartoonist, Teleportation, Rosebud the Basselope,
Opus's In-Laws, Deathtöngue, Steve Quits Smoking, Romantic Land Mines,
Billy and the Boingers, As Good As It Gets, and First Tour.
Bloom County became very popular in the
early 1980's. The characters that Berke Breathed created are a lot of
fun to read about. They are: Steve Dallas - a machismo man who
doesn't know how to take "No" for an answer, Bobbi - Milo and
Binkley's school teacher who tells Steve "No," Milo Bloom - a
young boy who writes for the Bloom Beacon and is politically conscious,
Binkley - Milo's neurotic friend who is something of a girl, Cutter
John - Bobbi's wheelchair-bound friend who is a Star Trek fan and a
Viet Nam war veteran, Opus - Binkley overanxious penguin who sort of
pretends he is human, and Bill the Cat - a scraggly, rock 'n'
roll loving mess of a cat. All of these characters, and a few more minor
players, make up Bloom County..
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