COMICS REVIEW: SIMPSONS ILLUSTRATED #5

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THE PAPER CHASE

Bart decides to build a kite out of Milhouse’s newspapers. This doesn’t sound like Bart, right?  Well, what if I told you his kite pretty much took Milhouse out of the delivery business leaving Bart the only option to continue his paper route.  This probably doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it becomes one when he whites out certain excerpts of head line articles that would then tell different stories. Eventually, one of those stories leads Springfield to believe that there’s a giant moth on the loose and he means business! Obviously this isn’t true so Bart has to stop the story from getting too big…which it does. Yep, Frink builds a big ass robot to battle the big ass moth that isn’t there.  Thankfully, Bart thinks quick and actually builds a giant moth out of newspaper of which the robot destroys thus saving Springfield.

THE DICKENS YOU SAY

Bart has to read a Dickens story for a book report. After trying a few different shortcuts, Bart has one last option…Lisa. Turns out Lisa knows the book, so she starts telling him the whole story while he puts it on tape. Unfortunately for Bart, Lisa told the wrong story but he gets an ‘A’ from an unlikely substitute.

I’M RUBBER YOU’RE GLUE

Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl are out fighting crime but latter of the two comes down with a SuperFlu. This leads Bart to having to find a new sidekick in the form of ‘GlueStick’. Turns out Gluestick has some talents other than picking his nose and even helps Stretch take down a mechanized evil-doer!

A solid issue of Simpsons Illustrated releases this month for Bongo, as we get a pretty good variety of stories. I always enjoy the Stretch Dude stories and I actually hope it gets spun off for a series or at least a standalone special ala Radioactive Man.  ‘Paper Chase’ was also a lot of fun, but I felt the ‘Dickens’ story was a bit weak and kind of stood out in an issue of action packed fun. That said, I would certainly recommend a buy as this month’s issue provides three kinds of story-telling for one low price.

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(8.0 out of 10)

 

 

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