in Bloom County, there was one series of strips where the editor of the local paper decided to write a column on safe-sex and AIDS, so he had to send copy-boy Milo down to the vault to get the dangerous words he needed for the strip.
Any idea which book of Bloom County has that set of strips?
Pretty sure it was in Billy and the Boingers Bootleg, because I remember that sequence clearly and that’s the only book I owned.
Do you still have the 45rpm that came with it?
I do in my copy, never took it out.
Oh, the two strips asked for in the OP are on page 102 of BatB
thanks, all - now I just need to find my old copy.
I want the strip where, I think it’s Milo’s dad, laying in bed worrying about turning 40. Milo finishes his dad’s statement about the necessity of all the human body parts needing to keep working by saying, “Get hit by a bus, fall on a dirty soup spoon and catch AIDS.”
Milo and his dad’s best joint strip was the one where Milo woke him up in the middle of the night to show a picture of the inside of a smoker’s lung. 
Was it Milo and his dad? I don’t remember him having a dad - most of the father-son themes were handled by Michael Binkley and his dad.
And that, apparently, is all it takes to nudge me to share this.
It was Binkley. Milo’s parents were never seen in the strip.
Ah, Milo was the kid with the glasses?
If so, he had hs uncle or grandpa or whoever of his family that we saw at least.
Snugglebunnies?
Could you make it sound more passionate?
Milo Bloom has a grandfather that appears in the strip regularly. He can be seen Here
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Bloom County had a contest for Bill and Boingers songs. My band recorded a tune for the contest. We didn’t get in, which sucked because the tune rocked. It had a Tuba solo (Opus played the tuba) which I played on gutar through a midi pickup. The tune absolutely kicked ass, way better than what they had on the 45. I am going to hunt and see if I still have a copy of it somewhere.
[mini-rant off]
Slee
One of my favorite Bloom County series was when Milo hired The Rolling Stones for the fourth grade dance. He didn’t even know who they were.
Milo, to his teacher Miss Harlow:
Here’s one of their promo pics. These schmoes must be forty years old!
SNUGGLEBUNNIES! SNUGGLEBUNNIES! SNUGGLEBU
Sweaty snugglebunnies?
