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The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos is the sixth collection of Bloom County comic strips. The Sunday comic strips
appear in color and are clumped into small groups of four to ten 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 weeks happenings. All of
the dailies appear in black and white. In the middle of the book is the
World's First Smell-O-Toons. If you supposedly open the sealed snorting
section and inhale deeply, you will be "bombarded by sights and smells
and let yourself slip away into the strange Mary Kay world of clashing
perfume and pink mothballed lingerie." The only new character added in this
book is Ronald-Ann.
The following storylines appear in this book: Opus
for VP in '88, Bill and Jean Kirkpatrick, Spuds MacKenzie's Drunken
Rampage, Opus Smokes, The Grand Unification Theory, No Women in Bloom
County, Opus the Liberal, Dr. Oliver's Cat-Sweat Scalp Tonic, Mary Kay
Commandos, and The Election's Over.
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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