Billy's Boots Vol 1 Review

[Bad City Blue]

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[TordelBack]

Blimey, if you'd asked me I'd have sworn blind that Billy's Boots (an old fave of mine in on its return to Tiger in the '70s) was all in B&W: amazed to see the colour. Despite hating sport in reality, this and Tough of the Track were enough to have me fantasising that the shitty boots I never cleaned were actually haunted, and that if I could just get a fish supper into me before training I'd be flying.

[Bad City Blue]

I was shite at football but loved to escape in these strips

[Professor Bear]

NERD CRIT: Billy wasn't a cheat as the shoes weren't supernatural.  The Power Was Within Him All Along™.

I came to BB when it was in Eagle And Tiger and the content was by then tweaked to tone down the football and concentrate on the drama, so the earlier format of weeks-long footy matches followed by Billy's gran throwing his boots away yet again was a surprise.  I'd thought the strip was always about a runaway hitch-hiking around Thatcher-era Britain, though can't remember what - if anything - I made of the whole performance-enhancing ghost shoes element.

[karlos]

By gum, it's finally coming out!