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Milo Bloom was a central character in the American comic strip Bloom County. He was originally the...

Milo Bloom was a central character in the American comic strip Bloom County. He was originally the main character, but was soon overshadowed by his best friend Michael Binkley and later on by Opus the penguin. Milo was the most worldly and cynical of all the characters; he was seemingly the only county resident who cared about politics and goings-on in the world outside his small town. He lives in the Bloom County Boarding House with his grandparents, Major Bloom and Bess Bloom. Said grandparents run the boarding house where most of the characters live. Milo was also a reporter for the Bloom Beacon and later the Bloom Picayune, where he engaged in controversial reporting (he says he graduated from the "Rupert Murdoch School of Exuberant Journalism"). In early times, he always bothered the remarkably evil Senator Bedfellow with ridiculous questions, asking for confirming accusations (usually about the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa), and attempting to convict him for virtually anything, although Bedfellow was not his only target. A noteworthy scandal he created (with some help from Oliver Wendell Jones) involved changing the front page article of the New York Times, from "Reagan Calls