Graphic Novel Review: Annoying Orange ” Transfarmers: Food Processors in Disguise”

The question here is: Is this the Optimus Prime or the Waspinator of the Annoying Orange graphic novels?

The Annoying Orange is a tale of two polarizing properties. You have the web show and the Cartoon Network show, both of which are just mouths and eyes on live fruit. They have got to be the absolute worst show on YouTube and Cartoon Network, hands down. However, you have these comics, and they are hilarious. I think it’s because you don’t have the detriment of those terrible voices, or the terrible super-imposing that the show has. It’s a cartoon. Thankfully, this doesn’t stray too far away.

The big part of this book is it’s namesake: a 24 page comic split into five smaller parts. It starts with the Cosmic Cuke bringing news of the cosmic heralds of the Transfarmers: walking, talking, sentient food processors bent on starving entire worlds.  The Cosmic Cuke sends the gang to Egypt to face off with Blendorr, to the African Jungle to fight Blendorr’s wife with a Brontosaurus like carnivore (what?), and Antartica to try to defeat Rronko. The final chapter  is where all of the food processors form B’JR. The heralds are about to squash the fruit gang, but the Transfarmers show up in their barn ship. They act like Galactus, and try to eat the planet. Cuke breaks neutrality, and talks the heralds and Transfarmers into leaving. Marshmallow, however, gets himself stuck inside B’JR’s mechanics. They all leave, and the world is at peace.

This main story was pretty cool, because things got fleshed out. However, Papercutz needs to either make the book a bunch of one or two page shorts, or a couple big stories like Transfarmers. I really enjoy the big story, and even felt it was an easier read with breaking it down into parts. But I feel like it’s a waste of time and paper to print these short comics. anyway, the story was cool, with a weird mix of a dash of Transformers and a heap of Galactus and his heralds. I guess it fits, since Transformers were on Marvel in the 80’s. The Transformers reference is only in name, really. So, the name gets you hyped for something that isn’t there. That’s slightly annoying, but nothing serious. The farmers weren’t portrayed as the harbingers of famine as much as they were farmers.

Some of the other comics of merit include:

Nightmare Pear

An Offer You Can’t Refuse

The Passion Fruit Diaries