Futurama Comics #37

May 30, 2008

Futurama Comics #37 (Bongo Comics)
By Ian Boothby & James Lloyd

When the Aliens for the Ethical Treatment of Mammals decide that Fry and Leela are being worked too hard by Planet Express, they “liberate” them to a farm on a distant planet. Bender, left alone, is suspended from work and comes up with the strangest get-rich-quick scheme he’s ever had. The Fry/Leela stuff here is very good — it’s a nice send-up of certain human organizations and gives us yet another classic Leela/Zap Brannigan confrontation. The Bender story starts weakly — the reasons for his “experiment” aren’t particularly funny — but picks up quickly and winds up taking over the book. This is an issue that feels particularly true to the TV show, with send-ups of everything from the TransFormers to politics, and smaller jokes about anything from Pac-Man to 300. While not are sharp as the show was, it’s still sharper than most other humor comics out there. Good issue.

Rating: 7/10