Comics Review: Simpsons Comics Shake-Up
We’re going to take you back to the past, to relive comics that may or may not have sucked ass. Sorry to paraphrase the Angry Video Game Nerd, but you’ll see why I did after the jump!
Spoilers!
“The Simpsons’ the Musical”
This story with Bart in the background of what looks like Space Invaders. It turns out to be Milhouse playing on his new cell phone. Bart misses Milhouse, due to his father trying to scam the insurance company, so Milhouse is in Capital City doing extreme sports with his mother’s new boyfriend. Homer infests the house with fire ants, so the family goes to Capital City. They see Krusty’s stage show, and it was terrible. Bart and Lisa meet Krusty, and get him to change the act. He tries many different things, but after listening to Lisa and Bart argue, he settles on the new musical be the Simpsons. The show goes on for a bit, but the family gets tired of acting like themselves, on and off stage, they go out in costumes to scare off the local actors. The miss just being themselves, so they quit. And due to bad accounting, Krusty went bankrupt.
“To Kill a Mocking Bart”
Homer is making bets at the bar, where he tricks a guy to leaving. The guy gets back in, and doesn’t have the money to pay. So, he hands over his law degree and practice. The next morning, a judge and mob boss comes to his house. They tell him that he’s to take everything over, or go to jail. Homer decides to just take the most off the wall ways to win, including a laser light show, and getting an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon animated. Then, Homer gets called to the school, because Bart is accused of torching the school. Homer starts to fumble, so Lisa takes over. After she did some of her own investigating, she questions Edna. It comes out that Edna was smoking, and her cigarette lit Bart’s spray paint, and the building catches fire.
“A Roaming Holiday”
This is a fast one, only because there isn’t much dialogue. The family go on vacation, leaving the dog and cat outside, with food and water. The animals go on the trampoline, the movies, douse some local kids with water, swim in an aquarium. catch rats for food, get Italian food, and just relax. While this was going on, Homer managed to screw up camping, fishing, having money for food, he got mummies to chase him at the museum, and he almost killed the entire family getting home. The family gets home just in time to see the dog and cat in the same spot, coincidentally.
“Dr. Nick at Night”
Dr. Nick is in front of a review board for being, well, a terrible doctor. Before he’s sentenced to lose his license to practice, he recants 3 stories. The first was when he was the only one to help Marge’s sisters, who got their heads melted together because of lighting a cigarette after getting a perm. He then helped Comic Book Guy to get his nerd back after getting a box to the head. He did the brain surgery to save CBG’s nerd. Finally, he helped Professor Frink to cure the clown zombie plague. The review board allowed him to keep his practice, just as long as he separates that from moonlighting as a vet.
“Big House Homer”
The FBI busts into Homer’s office, thinking it was Burns’s. They find Burns, and say he is on trial for treason for selling plutonium to terrorists. Smithers and Burns comes up with a plan to frame Homer for it. Homer takes the fall, and lands in jail. He ends up as the cellmate for Sideshow Bob. He has a plan to escape, and it involves him getting to his own cell, that a new menace is in. They end up trying to hatch the plan, and letting this new guy tag along. They all end up in what is Burns’s war stash. Homer gets burns to pay for his silence, and he is on his way home.
This is a collection of works, from 100 to 103 of the main Simpsons line, and Summer Shin-Dig numbers 1 and 3. So, if you own those, or have the original runs, there is no point to spend the 15.99 for it, especially if you spent $20 or so dollars on the other issues . To Kill a Mocking Bart and A Wandering Holiday were the best stories, because they seemed more unique. Like the other collected works, this is a buy only for new owners as there is absolutely no extra comics. The issue feels like a pretty crappy cash in which is pretty bad, considering how this was a decent book.
