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TheGiantKorean, in Bloom County Starts Tomorrow
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Really used to enjoy this one. Especially because of these guys.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/301c5e66-f41c-4294-8454-2ad66d60f603.png

magnetosphere, in Bloom County Starts Tomorrow
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What luck! I loved Bloom County, and this is the very first time I’ve caught one of your posts! I have definitely subscribed. Thanks!

MrSebSin,
@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works avatar

Perfect timing ;)

verity_kindle, in 8 December 1980
@verity_kindle@lemmy.world avatar

I’m so excited! Thank you for doing this! I had to buy the 2009 complete collection on paper to get high quality versions. Did you digitize all those years of strips?

MrSebSin,
@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works avatar

Very welcome :) This will be a nice trip down memory lane! Pretty amazing how relevant it still is today.

I have the complete collection as well. I did not digitize them, as they are freely available on GoComics.com. I have noticed that GoComics sometimes is missing some days here and there, in those cases I will digitize.

verity_kindle,
@verity_kindle@lemmy.world avatar

Today I learned! You must have great patience, like Oliver Wendell Jones himself, to take on such a thing.

caseyweederman,

Is there any logic to their gaps? Censorship, complaints, intern put the physical copy in the shredder instead of the scanner?

Pronell, in 8 December 1980

My wife disassembles her burgers before eating them. (Chopped beef steak with a roll, what’s not to like?)

She’s such a weirdo.

CodexArcanum, in 8 December 1980

It’s funny how this isn’t even an odd request anymore. Most places will make burgers into lettuce wraps now. I wonder which factors (keto, gluten-free, broader health awareness) or combination of them had the most influence on changing perception about it?

thegiddystitcher,
@thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee avatar

The milkshake, on the other hand…

Ghyste,

Likely on both hands. And your lap. And the floor…

NoSpotOfGround,

Just the way I likes it.

pixeltree,

Gluten free I think, that was basically the only reason we made them back when I worked at a fast food joint

nocturne213, (edited )

I used to order this way when I was doing the atkins diet. Now I am vegetarian and have ordered a whopper without the meat.

Stamau123, in 8 December 1980

It’s here! I never read bloom county (beyond a big book of comic history where it had some strips) but the countdown got me interested.

This is the first strip? For some reason I expected less of a non sequitur

logicbomb, in 8 December 1980

A milkshake without a cup seems like it would become a milk handshake.

I’ll be here all week, folks.

Nollij, in 8 December 1980

As someone who doesn’t remember those days, why was it so ridiculous to get a burger without a bun? Even without lettuce wraps, it seems like it would’ve been simple enough to throw/stack in the wrapper/box. Messy, but simple. These days, it’s commonly eaten with a fork.

What was different back then?

MrSebSin,
@MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works avatar

This is based on a marketing campaign back in the day from Burger King called Have It Your Way. At the time having things customized in the food industry, especially fast food was not common and food allergies/intolerance were not really acknowledged. If you didn’t like pickles or tomatoes, you picked them off instead of being made without for you. So when BK started this it was pretty revolutionary.

smuuthbrane, in I'm A Boinger
@smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works avatar

There’s a throwback. I had that way back in the day myself.

nocturne213, in I'm A Boinger

Bootleg was the first Book County book I owned, the rest I had borrowed from a friend. That vinyl was amazing, sadly mine was misplaced.

BadNewsNobody, in I'm A Boinger

Memory unlocked! I totally had this as a kid and completely forgot about it until now!

I think I even remember some of the lyrics maybe. Something like:

“I hate the way you act and I hate the way you smell. I hate the way you look cuz you just look like hell!” ?

Thanks for the blast from the past!

Davel23, in I'm A Boinger

I always found it funny that Breathed chose the band "Billy and the Beaters" to parody with Bill the Cat's band. Billy and the Beaters was a one-hit wonder with a song that was featured on Family Ties.

DemBoSain,
@DemBoSain@midwest.social avatar

Ha, I remember that now. That song got a lot of play on radio.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UauWMguMlvY

geekworking, in I'm A Boinger

The song U Stink But I Love U was written by Mucky Pup and they made a video..

I saw these guys back in '89 at a shit hole Jersey Shore club, and some asshole stole the spark plug wires out of my car during the show.

OldManBOMBIN, in I'm A Boinger

Hey I don’t know what bloom county or anything else is, but I looked up I’m a Boinger and that shit rocks.

caseyweederman, (edited )

It’s the comic Opus the Penguin is from, if you’re familiar with him.

OldManBOMBIN,

I am not, unfortunately.

Is this music based on the comic or something? Or, like, from the comic?

nocturne213,

It is supposed to be music by Billy and the Boingers, formerly known as Dëäthtöngüë (I forget where the umlauts go, so they all get them).

OldManBOMBIN,

Right, I got that from the band name; I just didn’t know if this was a, like, real band, or a band that someone started to parody a band from the comic, or a band that someone formed to pay homage to the comic, etc.

So it’s just some band?

limelight79,

It’s the band in the strip. The had a real band do these songs.

In the strip they were poking fun at heavy metal bands like Judas Priest, and the infamous Tipper Gore hearings.

OldManBOMBIN,

Oooook gotcha gotcha gotcha. I understand completely.

Damn, I gotta get into bloom county.

caseyweederman,

Never a better time now that the community owner is posting them in real time. I’ve got all the books but I’m still planning on following along in syndication pacing.

verity_kindle,
@verity_kindle@lemmy.world avatar

And KISS.

limelight79,

Oh geez, how did I forget that? Thanks!

caseyweederman,

One of my favorite words is Diagetic. The music is part of the universe you’re observing.
I think this isn’t quite the same as that, since it’s music that is coming out of the universe, and intended to be representative of something inside, but it’s at least related.
Like the musical notation at the end of a Charles de Lint novel. Emergent diagesis.

OldManBOMBIN,

Once you said diagetic, I knew just what you meant. Music that exists within the realm of the comic that has been “recreated” in our world? Excellent.

verity_kindle,
@verity_kindle@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a rock band of rebels with a death tuba section, from Bloom County. In the universe of the comic, they go on tour and Bill destroys a motel room. They do their best to imitate the greats. They are the vanguard of culture. Thanx for the groovy gams!

homesweethomeMrL, in I'm A Boinger

Not a Böingers song but “Scuzzbucket from Nantucket” was pretty bitchen.

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