His Kisses Are Dreamy...but Those Hairballs Down My Cleavage...!: Another Tender Outland Collection [Paperback]

Berke Breathed (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1994

Focuses on the futher adventures of Opus the Penguin, Bill the Cat, Rosebud the Basselope and Milquetoast, the cross-dressing cockroach. The cartoons show how they cope with corrupt politicians, right-on religious fundamentalists, fantasies about pneumatic women and nicotine withdrawal.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (P); 1st edition (August 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316108677
• ISBN-13: 978-0316108676
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #999,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Berkeley Breathed lives and works in Santa Barbara, California and is the proud owner of a gentle pit bull named Ridley, a deaf dachshund named Milly, and a refugee mutt from the Puerto Rican streets named Pilar--splendidly flawed dogs, every one.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Outland Volume Two, June 17, 2004

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Mark J. Fowler "Let's Play Two!" (Jacksonville, Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: His Kisses Are Dreamy...but Those Hairballs Down My Cleavage...!: Another Tender Outland Collection (Paperback)

After years of creating the wildly popular and successful 'toon "Bloom County" Berke Breathed scaled back the strip to a Sunday-only offering called "Outland". During the same time he was beginning his work on his wonderfully written and illustrated children's books.

In Bloom County we were offered characters that grew familiar, even in their various deficiencies. The strips were episodic, frequently thoughtful and almost always hilarious. At the same time we came to identify with the various characters: Milo Bloom the precocious pre-teen and his paranoid buddy Binkley. Cutter John, the paraplegic Vietnam veteran who led his buddies on role-playing Star Trek adventures. Steve Dallas, the chain-smoking slime-ball lawyer who got his come-uppance over and over, usually as a result of his insensitivity to women. Oliver Wendell Jones, the young computer hacker who caused panic at the Pentagon, on Wall Street and in his school's science class.

Outland doesn't have the same feel as it's not episodic at all. Each Sunday comic "stands alone" - and each one is full of Breathed's inventive artwork and the same brilliantly conceived satire. I don't feel like the story stands still long enough to identify or care as much about the characters, and for that reason Outland isn't as satisfying to me as Bloom County.

Still - there is some good stuff here and Breathed skewers Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, the health-care industry, political correctness and Macauley Culkin.