Burly Go Home

Burly Go Home is a novel set in the Frank Burly universe.

Plot
Burly Go Home begins with Frank Burly admitting that the reason 60% of the filming of the latest Three Bastards movie was his fault, due to the Bastard brothers' gimmicks leading him to eat the film itself. Burly is fired from his job as caretaker of the brothers, and loses all the money he made. Burly then gets a job testing everything from guns to chairs, and ends up making ten dollars by being blown up, melting, and shot across town. While in the hospital for his many injuries, he is visited by the Bastard Brothers, who sadly tell him that their newest movie was a flop, and Burly realizes that the reason why is that there are people acting weird like the brothers around the theatre, so nobody wants to go inside and look away. Burly suspects that all these people are being controlled, as they think their actions are completely normal.

Later, Burly looks up to the sky and sees and sees a giant golden cloud. With some of the technology he tested, Burly flies up to the Cloud and learns that they are a group of humans who migrated up their a few generations ago because they thought they were better than the rest of the people. Burly makes the Goldenites, as they call themselves, take him captive so he can search fro all their gold, and Burly looks everywhere, even at the control building in the middle of the city. There, he finds a giant lobster who's controlling everyone in Central City, just like he suspected. The cloud crashes to the ground, and the humans realize that the Goldenite's gold was really stolen from them, but when all the gold is stolen by another outside force, Burly and the lobster, Phil, are chased around the globe for a year, until they realize that the people in Central City stopped looking for them after about a week, and they return to Central City where Burly cooks and eats Phil.