Comics Review: Simpsons Comics #227

Spoilers Below

Peas in a Podcast

Lisa starts a podcast that tries to exonerate Moe from stealing Moleman’s car. Hers eventually becomes so popular that everyone in Springfield starts a podcast, but after a while, everyone gets so busy producing their own podcast that nobody listens to the other shows. As a result, everyone drops out of the game, and Lisa gets back to freeing Moe from a crime he didn’t commit.

Moe in “Closing Time”

A fun strip that details what happens when Moe goes down for the night after a hard day’s work.

Slumber Party Seance

Lisa tries to play a prank on her friends featuring boys and ghosts, but then the girls kind of get back at her by not exactly telling her the whole truth with what happened to those boys and their tree house.

Our Take

It isn’t often that Simpsons Comics takes part in TRUE parody like its TV brother, but the kick-off story about podcasting did just that. I thought “Peas in a Podcast” was a rather hilarious and honest portrayal of podcasts that should leave the hard core fan base of the art form a little butt hurt. The other two bits were pretty good, too, I just kinda wish we swapped out the last “Lisa” story for something a little different, but overall a solid issue.