Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Futurama #68

One of the most confusing issues Bongo has ever produced. Taking a bag from the film Memento, many of the scenes are shown in reverse order. 

The Planet Delivery team start the story all buck-naked and with no recollection as to how they got that way. Bender has been recording the event, so Farnsworth tries to piece together what's been happening. Thanks to a new invention of the professor's, the memory loss has been going on for nearly an hour. 

There's an analog clock in the background and it's helpful to a point. But Bender has a clock on his video feed and it keeps going up and down from 11:01-11:13. But it, unlike the background clock doesn't move in linear order. I tried and tried to figure out what was going on but I had to give up on figuring out the clock and just try to enjoy each passing period of time as separate skits that just happen to link together.

There were some laughs here. The art was just like it would on the TV show. I didn't remember how racy Futurama was. While the Simpsons comics are regarded as for all ages, this has got to be PG at least. Regardless of the age appropriateness, I think this type of story just didn't transfer well to a comic book. If this was done animated, it probably would have been a classic. Instead, it all got lost in the medium of comics

Not Worth Consuming!

Rating: 4 out of 10 stars.

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