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00:00 I'm interested in seeing if this intentionally bad comic of fries is actually good.
00:05 As in enjoyable.
00:07 It starts by ripping off Superman's origin story, where a planet's about to blow up for no logical reason.
00:13 You'd think if the aliens on it were that futuristic, they would've been able to prevent their planet from blowing up.
00:20 But it is unique that it's a planet where everyone's a superhero.
00:24 It's weird that the narration says "one time" and not "once upon a time" though.
00:29 Nobody would make that mistake.
00:31 The dialogue of Fry's parents in this comic is stilted.
00:35 Then the comic rips off Batman's origin story too.
00:39 I don't see why a theater would be hard to draw.
00:43 It's just squares.
00:45 It looks like Fry doesn't want the comic to have a tone that takes itself too seriously,
00:49 because if he did, he wouldn't draw the eyes of those people as X's.
00:54 Their dialogue is stilted too, and so is Fry's.
00:58 Fry went on to become a scientist who had an accident with a gas bomb because I guess he was just that careless.
01:04 The term "super scientist" sounds silly because it's not a term in real life.
01:09 For some reason, Fry calls the stink gas "gamma rays",
01:13 so it's creative that gamma rays were made to take a form like that.
01:18 He wouldn't call out for the police for help though, because it's obvious they wouldn't be able to hear him or help him.
01:25 Fry would only write that as a joke.
01:28 The gamma rays rip off the Hulk's backstory.
01:32 And that radiation magically made a huge spider out of thin air that stung him,
01:38 even though spiders are acknowledged not to have stingers.
01:41 It's creative that it has a stinger.
01:44 The words "except this one did" are redundant.
01:48 The only reason that spider would show up is if a witch working the lab made it.
01:53 So the spider rips off Spider-Man's origin story.
01:57 It also makes me wonder how Fry survived this since it's a giant,
02:01 so I have to assume someone rushed into the room with a weapon to immediately defeat the spider.
02:07 The spider's sting magically caused him to get Wolverine claws,
02:12 which he uses on a regular old cardboard box for a surprising joke.
02:17 The box contained magic bracelets, a lasso, and a tiara.
02:22 I thought Super Baby was supposed to be Fry because he looks like him.
02:26 But then I see someone who looks a lot more like Fry get handed the package by Super Baby because it's not Super Baby's package.
02:34 But then it's confusing that it's Fry's package because it's got magic bracelets.
02:39 It's a lot to take in.
02:41 Why would he tell Super Baby he's a mild-mannered delivery boy?
02:45 Also, Super Baby wouldn't keep the name Super Baby or be called that after he stops being a baby
02:51 because that'd cause him to get made fun of.
02:54 The next panel has Fry explain the narration that he decided not to have Super Baby bite Fry to give him his powers
03:01 because everyone he talked to told him not to.
03:04 So instead he simply inspired Fry to fight crime without cool powers.
03:10 So then all those origin stories were pointless because Super Baby isn't the protagonist.
03:16 At least it was funny how many different backstories he ripped off, so it was worth it.
03:21 He was trying to do too much at once, but I don't blame Fry considering that it's normal for superhero origins to be silly.
03:27 Or it seems like it based off the most famous ones, so of course he'd think it's fine to be silly there.
03:32 And it's also normal for superheroes to be overpowered,
03:35 so it makes sense that he thought it'd be fine to make his overpowered when Superman gets away with it.
03:41 And plenty of characters are allowed to have complicated backstories.
03:47 So we see Fry deliver a package to the Amazon women, talking as if he's giving it to its rightful owner.
03:54 So the package was theirs, not his.
03:57 And that explains why it has those things.
04:00 If we're not supposed to believe the bracelets gave him magical powers,
04:04 it doesn't make any sense to establish that they're magic bracelets if it's not gonna mean anything to the plot.
04:11 Because we'll never find out what was actually supposed to be magical about them.
04:16 The woman on the right looks creative.
04:19 It's nice of one of them to thank him just for doing his job.
04:22 One of them hugs him and arbitrarily gives him a silly superhero name.
04:27 Fry is shown refusing their award, and all of a sudden he turns muscular and his clothes change magically.
04:33 Apparently the magic bracelets gave him the power to do that just by having them for a bit.
04:39 And all of a sudden he narrates about having friends when it wasn't established that this comic's Fry knows all of them.
04:46 Why did he think Leela, someone he's showing the comic to, would be able to stand being called a damsel in distress here?
04:54 Leela is shown getting grabbed from behind,
04:57 and she's tied to a torpedo by an alien who threatens to shoot Fry's spaceship.
05:02 Leela has some more completely forced dialogue.
05:06 Fry says he got a cat out of a tree for someone,
05:09 and says his delivery sense is tingling,
05:12 and somehow still thinks he doesn't have superpowers.
05:16 Bender opens his chest up and hits the torpedo with an extendable fist he arbitrarily had in there at that exact moment.
05:24 So anyone who reads the comic without knowing that he's a kleptomaniac might be confused.
05:31 Fry has some more stilted dialogue congratulating him.
05:35 It'd be easier to say that most of the dialogue is wooden.
05:39 Bender disappears, the narration calls Leela a ripoff of the name Lois Lane,
05:44 Fry cries, and then surprisingly immediately finds out Bender's bent.
05:49 So this could only happen if he reborned himself from a pile of nanobot goo he was reduced to.
05:55 Fry somehow says it taught him that emotions can be as powerful as powers.
06:00 This doesn't make it quite clear enough that we're supposed to think his crying is what saved him,
06:07 because it doesn't make any sense, and nobody ever says that.
06:12 It almost instantly skips to Fry confronting the bad guy,
06:15 so I have to assume him getting to him literally was as simple as him piloting the spaceship to his and going into it.
06:23 A meteor conveniently crashes through the spaceship and lands on him,
06:26 so Fry gets to enjoy kissing Leela.
06:30 But then the bad guy instantly gets up, lifting the meteor and turns out to be a robot.
06:35 There's no reason to say the same thing Bender did.
06:39 It's already a stretch that he and Bender don't think of themselves as alive.
06:43 Why doesn't Fry just punch him already?
06:46 I guess he assumes he'd only hurt his hand because the alien's skin is so tough.
06:51 Fry throws Bender in front of the shot laser because he knows he'll be fine.
06:55 Bender lands on the alien and kills him in a surprisingly gory way that's thankfully not so bad after all because he's got green blood.
07:03 He still didn't need any considering that he's a robot.
07:07 What took him so long to land?
07:10 It's not like he was thrown directly upwards.
07:14 So how did he land on him directly?
07:18 I guess he landed on him because of the magical effect of the laser that hit him.
07:23 Leela calls him her hero. None of them are horrified at the sight of this.
07:27 It's unusually great writing for superhero fiction that simply killed off its villain instead of putting him in jail,
07:33 causing me to not care about the victory because I know he'll be out of it later.
07:37 Instead the hero's actually competent.
07:40 It's fine to write this because he didn't show any potential to become a sympathetic character and be valuable to any other character,
07:46 and it looks like he already did everything he'd be in character for him to do.
07:50 If that wasn't the case, it'd be lazy writing.
07:53 The nature of the comic makes it seem like there'd always be more villains just like him to replace him right afterwards.
08:00 So it's no loss.
08:02 I was never told why the bad guy wants to do his plan,
08:06 but there are crazy people in real life who'll do something just to spite someone else.
08:10 There's some uneventful comic space after this where Scruffy finds a fake mustache on the floor for no reason and throws it over his shoulder.
08:18 Fry tells him reading can be fun because he complained that he hates reading.
08:23 I'm just confused that he's trying to teach any lessons.
08:27 Fry delivers the mustache to someone who somehow lost it,
08:31 and it's confusing that Fry even went with this message of "learn to read" because anyone reading the comic would know how to read.
08:38 So it's brilliant that the writer of the episode chose the funniest possible lesson for him to teach,
08:44 since that's the joke.
08:46 I know Fry's supposed to be an idiot, but that doesn't mean literally any mistake he makes is believable.
08:52 This was written by Patrick M. Varon, and it's all in the Volume 5 DVD for Futurama.
08:59 This is very flawed, but it's all for the sake of trying to be funny, and it's really charming either way because of that.
09:05 So I still liked it.
09:07 The only thing keeping it from being good is that the dialogue is usually forced.
09:11 It was interesting how the bad guy was dealt with at the end.
09:14 Fry took advantage of something he learned from earlier in the story, using Chekov's gun.
09:19 You'd think that most superheroes would be fighting the bad guy directly,
09:23 but this is more creative than Fry simply punching him, which is what I was wanting him to do to him the whole time.
09:30 The beginning was charming enough to be worth the fact that I tried doing too much at once and was all for nothing.
09:36 As I expected, even a comic that we're supposed to think is bad because that's the joke is still a better experience than the bad comics I've reviewed,
09:45 and is even better written than all of them.
09:48 The things I get confused about I can always come up with explanations for anyways.
09:53 The only plot hole that mattered was that it doesn't properly explain Bender coming back to life so he could resolve the plot.
10:00 That's the only major problem where I was baffled that Fry wrote it that way because he clearly needed to explain how this happened if it was necessary for the plot.
10:11 It's not like the plot only happens because one of the main characters was impossibly stupid.
10:16 The art is a little crude, but I've seen worse.
10:20 The best thing this comic has going for it is the lighthearted tone caused by the silliness of the origin story.
10:26 It puts you in a good mood with it right away.
10:29 This comic isn't frustrating and it's never even boring.
10:33 It had a big advantage because it didn't go on for too long.
10:37 I guess that's why I'm okay with the fight with the bad guy lasting only one hit.
10:42 That and he didn't get the chance to do anything bad other than keep Leela in one place for a little while.
10:50 I don't see why it's rare for the comic I care about to be written to have a lot of charm and fast pacing,
10:56 and have the stories knowing to end if this writer thinks Fry can do it on the first try.