ShinyMetal***
Professor
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Well damn this thread is depressing too, maybe I'll draw some little Futurama comic sketches and put em up to lighten the mood if anyone has some ideas lemme know Its kind of sad realizing and experiences the slow Futurama decline, wish there was more to do to bring Peel back
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Tachyon
DOOP Secretary
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Yeah, I got one comic on a lark a couple of years ago, and it was pretty cool. And I started getting the calendars back in 2012 or so, but it would appear that 2017 is the last hurrah for that vehicle of Futurama expression If I weren't so lazy, I'd see about getting a small run of Peel/Futurama calendars made, with Peeler-contributed art. It would probably be way, way more work than I'd expect. And what do I look like? A guy who's not lazy?
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ShinyMetal***
Professor
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lol I feel that, I think there is something we all could do but laziness and societies decline of interest in the show doesn't help to motivate me. Calendars would be pretty cool
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Otis P Jivefunk
DOOP Secretary
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That's a shame about the comics ending, but they lasted longer than I thought they would. Now they should release a giant hardback book of the complete Futurama comics, perhaps in several volumes which fit inside one large outer cardboard box.
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Gorky
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Ooo, I'd be very much on-board for that. I stopped regularly purchasing the comics pretty early on--maybe around issue 20, if that?--but I'd always pick up the newest issue and flip through if I happened upon it at a bookstore or supermarket or comic shop.
My general impression was always that the Futurama comics were, on aggregate, of higher quality (story-wise, if not always visually) than the various Simpsons comics. I'm sure some of that can be attributed to folks with an actual relationship to the series (Patric Verrone, Eric Rogers) occasionally contributing scripts for the comics.
Failing an official anthology, when next I find myself with some disposable income, I might go about collecting the individual issues from eBay or something (that's how I came to own issues 1 through 7 or 8, if memory serves). They seem to me worth owning, in the same way the DVDs are worth owning or the (largely insipid) mobile games are worth playing: a story set in the Futurama universe is bound to be at least interesting, if not outright good.
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Tachyon
DOOP Secretary
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I had hoped for a 2020 calendar, in vain, until a couple of weeks ago when in another thread.I saw the reference to a 2020 calendar at the San Diego ComicCon. But nothing ever showed up online. Que to earlier today when I was searching Amazon for something unrelated and on a lark decided to check for calendars. And I'm glad that I did From the lead time and title I'm guessing that they're being printed to order, and that it's a retrospective calendar. Which is fine with me as I didn't start buying them until 2011.
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BountyHunter
Crustacean
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So there's no trades for this series?
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