Credits
Writer(s):
?
Letterer(s):
typeset
Subject Matter
Genres:
anthropomorphic
Character(s):
Beep Beep the Road Runner; Beep Beep's three sons; Wile E. Coyote; Beep Beep's dad; other members of the Road Runner family
First Line:
“Pop, I wonder if there are more… or is our family just we four?” asked a little Road Runner one day.
Synopsis:
Beep Beep confesses that he is estranged from his family because, when he was young and impulsive, he left their valley and “went his own way”. Since the three Beep Boys should meet the rest of their family, Beep Beep leads them home – where they are warmly welcomed and very well fed. So well-fed are they that, when they leave for home, they are almost caught by Wile E. Coyote because “The feast and play was all great fun, but now we’re all too fat to run!” After narrowly escaping the coyote’s clutches, the Road Runners vow “Never again will we feast and play… and get too fat on a holiday!”
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
1
Notes:
When noting, as they do in the first line, that they are a family of four, the Road Runners are forgetting their (presumably ret-conned out) mother “Matilda”, who appeared in the first few Dell issues of the Beep Beep the Road Runner title, as well as in the 1960s Gold Key reprints of those same issues. Even in this text story, the Road Runners maintain their comic-book tradition of rhyming dialogue.