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'Toons
for Our Times is the second
collection of Bloom County comic strips. The Sunday comic strips now
appear in color, but are clumped into two sections and do not 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.
The following storylines appear in this
book: Illegal "Bill the Cat" Tote Bags, "The Making of an American
Stinker" - The Steve Dallas Story, Independent "Meadow" Party, Binkley's chemical waste dump,
Milo's space shuttle dream, Journalist X, Pistachio's Junior Prom,
Binkley the Jedi Master, The Great Snake Massacre, The Cartoonist's
Life, Franklin the Hacker, Steve and the Dentist, Portnoy's Mid-Life
Crisis, The Bloom County US Festival, and Steve Dallas - Hacker?
Bloom County became very
popular in the early 1980's. The characters that Berke Breathed
created are a lot of fun to read about. A couple of new characters are
added this time around like: Alphonzo - the new black kid to the group
(doesn't really have a chance to stand out before he is replaced),
Franklin (Alphonzo's replacement) - a brainy black kid who is a
computer hacker and raises havoc as he pirates his way into may secure
systems, Pistachio - a young woman and a Junior in high school, and Limekiller
- a smoking, scruffy Englishman who runs for President. All
of the original cast, these new characters, and a few more minor
players, make up Bloom County.
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