Comics Review: Simpsons Comics #216

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I was a tad worried at first when Lisa announced she was going to work with Homer because we’ve seen that trope a bunch of times already, but what we instead got was another ‘Marge goes to work’ deal.

Fortunately, the plot was rather entertaining with her teaming up with Mr. Burns to sell a line of dolls inspired by the most-evil man in the world. At first they sell like crazy, but when Marge finds out that Burns is covering the toys in radioactive material, she ends the production and goes back to doing the best job in the world…being a mom.

In one of the better issues of the year, yea we get a bunch of recycled jump-offs, but the story and the sweetness of Marge just worked so well and the combo offered a one-two ‘Ove-Glove’ punch that shouldn’t be ignored. You don’t get anything in terms of extras or side-bar cartoons nor do you get a ton of laughs, but I’ll take it.

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