Oliver Wendell Jones was the most recurring African American character in Bloom County and Outland, two comic strips by cartoonist Berkeley Breathed. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa Bloom County was an American Comic strip by Berkeley Breathed which ran from December 8, 1980 until August 6, 1989 Outland was a Sunday-only Comic strip written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed from 1989 until 1995. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American Cartoonist, children's book Author / Illustrator,
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Fictional character biography
The genius of the bunch, he was always hacking into forbidden files with his Banana Jr. 6000 computer, and would be grounded or spanked by his father when he was caught. The following are minor characters from Berke Breathed 's comic strip Bloom County. He once framed Steve Dallas for breaking into the IRS computers. Steve Dallas is a fictional character in the American comic strips of Berke Breathed, most famously Bloom County in the 1980s The
Hacking
His first such endeavor in Bloom County occurred only days after his first introduction to the series, where he hacks into the front page of the New York Times, which has the front page article, "Reagan Calls Women 'America's Most Valuable Resource'". Milo, who accompanies Oliver, immediately alters it on the basis of being "too wordy" and the final edition reads "Reagan Calls Women 'America's Little Dumplings'", sparking nationwide outrage and a mass dumpling pelting attack on the White House by feminists (the comment was based on a real comment made by Hayden Fry, the football coach for the University of Iowa which provoked similar outrage in real life). Dumplings are "piece of Dough, sometimes filled that cooked in liquid such as water or soup" or "sweetened dough wrapped around fruit such as an apple baked John Hayden Fry (born February 28, 1929) was a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A College football coach from 1962 to American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive Team sport known for mixing strategy with The University of Iowa, is a major teaching service and Research university located on a campus in Iowa City Iowa, on the banks of the Iowa River
Among his other accomplishments is building an atomic bomb for a science project, a feat that got him suspended from school. A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from Nuclear reactions either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. He also hijacked HBO's transmissions claiming to be leader of the "People's Revolutionary Anti Scrambling Front for the Liberation of Public Airwaves ect, etc. ". In this stunt reminiscent of Captain Midnight's similar hijacking of HBO, Oliver appeared on television wearing a black hood similar to GI Joe's Cobra Commander. John R MacDougall (born c 1961 also known as Captain Midnight, is a Florida electronic engineer and business owner who jammed HBO 's GI Joe is a line of military-themed articulated "action figures" produced by the Toy company Hasbro. Cobra Commander is a fictional character from the GI Joe franchise.
Mothering
Oliver's mother always tried to get him to emulate someone "normal" - though she always used Michael Jackson as an example - which was something that Oliver did not appreciate. Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29 1958 is an American musician entertainer and businessman Through the years, Oliver's mother had a wall sized Michael Jackson photo covering Oliver's room, bought him a Michael Jackson glove, a Michael Jackson caucasian kit and the Michael Jackson facial distorter ( basically a tabletop vise for the face). The Caucasian race, sometimes the Caucasoid race, is a term of Racial classification, coined around 1800 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach for the " A vise or vice (see under miscellaneous spelling differences) is a mechanical Screw apparatus used for holding or clamping a work piece to allow work to
Oliver was named for United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., although it is also the full name of the M*A*S*H character Spearchucker Jones. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States and leads the federal judiciary. This is a list of past and present justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr ( March 8, 1841 &ndash March 6, 1935) was an American Jurist who served on the Supreme Captain Oliver Harmon "Spearchucker" Jones or Captain Oliver Wendell "Spearchucker" Jones was a surgeon in the movie and television series
Inventions
The Electro-Photo Pigment-izer
This skin-darkening invention was created to flash the white South African ambassador in a desperate attempt to destroy the apartheid regime, but the mission nearly killed Opus and landed Cutter John in Communist Russia where he was held as a political prisoner.
Prototype testing proved successful on Steve Dallas who, after finding his skin a little darker, believed that he had ventured into The Twilight Zone and began looking for Rod Serling in the bushes. The Twilight Zone is an American Television series created by Rod Serling. Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling ( December 25, 1924 &ndash June 28, 1975) was an American Screenwriter, best known
Shuttlechair Enterpoop
The Shuttlechair Enterpoop was Cutter John's wheelchair with balloons attached to it, with a crucial design flaw that there is no way to steer. A wheelchair is a wheeled Mobility device in which the user sits It was meant as a way to take Cutter John to Washington DC so he could use the Electro-photo pigmentizer on the South African ambassador to the United States, thus turning him dark-skinned and creating social chaos in South Africa to help bring down apartheid. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D
The Teleportation Device
This was an attempt to transport matter. A few bugs plagued it in the beginning. Oliver's first attempt at teleportation landed him part way in the floor. Another attempt resulted in his father's car being transported into orbit around Pluto. The big disaster was due to Bill The Cat's presence in the transporter with Oliver, which changed Oliver into half-human half-cat, a la The Fly. Bill the Cat, or Bill D Cat, according to the final Outland strip is a fictional Cat appearing in the works of Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed The Fly is a 1986 Science fiction / Horror film produced by Brooksfilms and 20th Century Fox, directed by David Cronenberg
Scalp Tonic
Oliver developed a baldness cure made out of sweat from Bill the Cat (originally intended as a deodorant until it caused rampant underarm hair growth in Oliver's dad). Baldness involves the state of lacking hair where it often grows especially on the head When users began to develop feline characteristics (most notably Bill's trademark "ack" noises), the government declared the tonic a controlled substance. The price of the tonic skyrocketed, and the gang began selling it underground. Criminals began to get in on the action. The whole series was a thinly disguised commentary on the drug wars. Drugwars was originally a DOS program created by John E Dell in 1984 The craziness ended when Congress legalized the scalp tonic which caused the market to collapse, and production to cease; without a supply of the tonic, Oliver's dad went totally bald (by sneezing his hair off).
The Grand Unification Theory
After Oliver began searching for an explanation of the universe in the form of an equation, he was told that Stephen Hawking was doing the same (this caused him to bang his head on the wall several times). Stephen William Hawking CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 January 1942 is a British theoretical physicist. Oliver then wrote a letter to Hawking, ridiculing him and his mathematical abilities. Hawking responded by mailing Oliver a thermonuclear bomb (which never actually went off). Oliver eventually beat Hawking to the equation, and attempted to explain it to Opus. Opus the Penguin ( Opus T Penguin) is a character in the Comic strips and Children's books of Berkeley Breathed, most notably the popular 1980s Under closer examination, however, the equation disproves the existence of flightless waterfowl, and Opus begins to be erased, as if with a pencil eraser. Oliver then discovers that he "forgot to carry the two" and corrects the equation, and Opus pops back into existence, if a bit disheveled.