Futurama Comics #53

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• 10

  Comics Bulletin - Ray Tate

  Jan 29, 2011

  The funny has landed in Futurama Comics. Rogers' script and the artwork are good enough to be televised. Read Full Review

• 7.0

  cxPulp - Blake Petit

  Feb 02, 2011

  Like approximately 50 percent of all Futurama stories, we kick off this issue with the crew being given a package to deliver to a distant planet. What they think is a shipment of food, though, turns out to be a highly volatile substance ordered by a group of cannibal robots attempting to cast off the shackles of an evil corporation controlling their destiny. Truly, only in Futurama can one type such a sentence. Anyway, Fry, Bender and Leela set out to free the robots and both destruction and hilarity ensue. The problem with this issue is that it actually gets a little too broad for the humor to be effective. With a set-up like this, Eric Rogers is set to mock any number of war or disaster movies, but instead of focusing on any specific targets, he gives us a kind of generic sci-fi story. There are good puns and gags, but nothing to make this story stand out, especially in contrast to other, better Futurama tales. --Blake M. Petit Read Full Review

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