Futurama Comics 23

Futurama Comics 23
February, 2006

Cover Caption: Hey Meatbag! Buy This Comic or Back Off!
Cover Credits: Matt Groening, Nathan Kane, Mike Rote
Script: Ian Boothby
Pencils: John Delaney
Inks: Andrew Pepoy
Colors: Colorbot 3000
Letters: Karen Bates
Editor: Bill Morrison

The A Team
While making a delivery Bender takes control of the ship and begins to do space donuts which opens up a vortex allowing what first appears to be an alternate universe PE team through but turns out is actually one of the original delivery crews for Professor Farnsworth that was thought lost long ago. During their exile in the vortex the crew decide to spend their time wisely and better themselves to make them better people and or robuts. As they are a top notch flight crew it is decided that the current delivery team is no longer needed, their career chips are removed and they are stained with the moniker of 'non-person'.

The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings

The Devil's Hands Are
Idle Playthings
August 10, 2003

Writer: Ken Keeler
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 4ACV18
Original Air Date: August 10, 2003
Guest Voices: Dan Castellaneta

See You on Some Other Channel

While practicing the holophoner to impress Leela, Bender walks in on Fry and suggests that in order to get better at it maybe he should make a deal with the Devil - the Robot Devil to be precise. They go to Robot Hell to meet up with the Robot Devil who makes a deal with Fry - a set of robot hands for his set of human hands. The Robot Devil spins his selecting wheel (which contains all robots names on it) and surprisingly it lands on the Robot Devil! Grudgingly he exchanges hands with Fry.

Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles 4ACV09

Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles
March 30, 2003

Writer: Jeff Westbrook
Director: Bret Haaland
Production Code: 4ACV26 
Original Air Date: March 30, 2003
Guest Voices: N/A
Collected On: Season 4

NOW INTERACTIVE! Joystick Controls Fry's Left Ear

After Farnsworth starts to really act his age the other Planet Express employees decide to take him to the Bubbling Geezer Hot Springs Spa to be youthesized. While sitting in a pit of youth mud Bender decides to kick the pump up another notch and douses the entire Planet Express crew. Soon they realize that they all have reversed aged all the way back to their teen years. Farnsworth tries to reverse the reverse aging mud but only succeeds in further reversing everyone ages back to childhood. The problem is that the now it cannot be stopped and all are in danger of suffering the fate of pre-life. And then death.

Less Than Hero

Less Than Hero
March 2, 2003

Writer: Ron Weiner
Director: Susie Dietter
Production Code: 4ACV04
Original Air Date: March 2, 2003
Guest Voices: N/A

Soon to Be A Major Religion



 Shown at last years Comic Con I was really excited to see this one again. While assembling a super collider that Farnsworth had purchased from Pikea, Leela and Fry experience some soreness and so decide to go see the good Dr. Zoidberg who gives them some miracle creme he bought from a traveling salesmen. The creme seems to work out fine for them until they notice the side effects of this miracle creme - it gives them super human powers. They decide to put their powers to good use and form a crime fighting duo. Fry as Captain Yesterday and Leela as Cloberella. Bender joins in as Super King to round out the trio and form the New Justice Team. They become instant success in New New York and even have their own theme song:

Futurama Comics 1

Bongo Comics
Released November, 2000

Cover Title: Feisty First Issue

Cover Credits: Matt Groening, Bill Morrison, Nathan Kane
Writer: Eric Rogers
Penciller: James Lloyd
Inks: Steve Steere
Colors: Colorbot 3000
Letters: Karen Bates
Editor: Bill Morrison
Reprinted: Futurama-O-Rama, Comic-Con exclusive

Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!
Ever wonder what it would be like to order those cool sea-monkies from the back of comic books? Fry finds out as his supercharged sea-monkies wreak havoc over New New York. In the end Zoidberg gets an early Thanksgiving Day feast with his new found friends.

Fun issue for an old guy like myself who actually remembers when comics did advertise sea-monkies, Charles Atlas books and boxes of 1000 army men.

For you collectors out there this issue was also was released as a special San Diego Comic Con exclusive. Not much is different between the two issues as the interior artwork as well as the cover is the same. The only difference is an insignia bearing Comic Con Exclusive on the cover as well as different coloring for the cover. Other than that they are basically the same but something to hunt for out there.

Of note, this issue is scripted by Eric Rogers who is also a writer for the television show. This is James Lloyd first Futurama issue but has been providing artwork for Simpsons Comics up to this point.

 

Space Pilot 3000

Writer: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen
Director:
Production Code: 1ACV01
Original Air Date: March 28, 1999
Guest Voices: Leonard Nimoy, Dick Clark

The first episode of this series that introduces us to the main characters of Futurama: Fry, Leela and Bender. After accidentally falling into a cryogenic chamber and being frozen for 1000 years, Fry wakes up to a whole new world. Along the way he meets up with a certain robot by the name of Bender as he tries to escape his career implantation assignment from Leela. Great moment at the end of this episode where all three make the conscious decision to alter their own fate and choose their own path thus proving you don't gotta do what you gotta do.

Lots of fun moments in this episode like when Larry welcomes Fry to the future. Fry's first trip on the boom tube, meeting up with Bender in the Suicide Booth and Leonard Nimoy being fed like a goldfish in the Head Museum.After tracking down his great, great, great, great,... you get the idea, nephew Professor Farnsworth, Fry, Leela and Bender take up employment as the delivery crew for the Planet Express Delivery Service. Oh, well some things never change.