Simpsons Super Spectacular #16: ROBARTMAN!

[silverzeo]

The issue starts up with Bartman defeating Snake at Android's Arcade. Comic Book Guy pull the alarmed on him. For armed robbery? No, for bending the cover of a comic, A comic with a picture of Bartman. (due to legal issues, since Bart can't reveal his identity, he can't claim copyright). Bartman buys it (at full price after helping CBG), which starts the first story of the issue "Bartmanga! Featuring Robartman"



... you think a Fish-Bulb explains why a imported comic in the Simpson-Comic-Verse explains why everyone in town in this? Last time they did an anime/manga parody story, it was a dream.



"Giant Bumblebee Monster" then goes into a frenzy when Patty and Salema started to sing him back to sleep, not only causing his escape; but as well as the Pokemon, Digimon, and The Manfred Mon. Catch them all? The references I mean, I am confused by the last one...

Any way GBM fights off the Chocobots, Prof Frink makes Robartman stop playing Megaman (this was published in January this year, so it was still at the time Capcom did nothing for Rock's big 25 before the SSB annoucement), to fight the monster, only to fail too.



Robartman "helps" them to go faster and ends up "transmuting them into a Blazing Bush" which they crash into the harbor...

Anyway, BumbleBee Monster swats Robartman WAY across a dozen of Ghibli refrences, having to catch rides because he was low on power. He refuels at a gas station and fights GBM again with help... LisKi? ... who gives him advice to trip the monster into the sea, cause bees can't swim.


And you know what else? This is the 2nd time that Lisa is protrayed as a good witch in the comics... the other being a Archie Parody issue... so not only the manga reference parody done before... but so is this little scene.... meaning not only has the show has done EVERYTHING nearly twice or thrice so far.... but also the comics... would you still read them?

Right, back to the ending.




Well, guys? Hit or miss? I would like to see more of this stuff. THe show's writers and staff seem to... miss everything great with the Simpsons, from the comedic timing and what is actually funny... and as awesome as the "Golly Gee Force" looks.... was is Helen Lovejoy Jun Swan? I mean, I know Maude is dead, but I would think they would have made an exception in an non-canon story, then again, could be my nitpicky inner-fanboy-critic talking....which is way I put off posting this comic until I had this commission done on DA!


Comm- Maude Flanders As Jun Swan By Chou Roninx by ~SilverZeo on deviantART

Maude Swan... THIS HAS TO BE CANON... to an extant...

Comments

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

The Manfred Mon, I'd guess, is a reference to Manfred Mann. Someone should have told Robartman that while metal robots can't swim, they can't drown, either.

[icon_uk]

I like the "Mobile News Gundam" mention.

I'd have thought that having Patty and Selma BEING the singing twins would have been better (possibly keeping the creature terrified, rather than enchanted)

Lisa as a good witch isn't that much of a concern since it's a parody of the Ghible classic "Kiki's Delivery Service".

Now I'm imagining Homer as a Totoro (with Maggie as a mini Totoro) and Otto as the Cat-bus.... which is all kinds of wrong.

[silverzeo]

Actually, Homer is Totoro, Maggie and Marge were Lone Wolf and Cub,

I meant Lisa has played a good witch at least twice in the comics run. She also played as Sabrina in a Archie spoof...

[darkblade]

This was not quite on par with the Death Note parody they did a few years ago but it was still rather enjoyable.

[grazzt]

Is the artist here the same one who did that story, and the other manga parody they did before that?

[elf]

I was trying to figure out why Ned and Maude Flanders had "power windows" pointing at their crotches, and then realized those are supposed to be gold buckles, not open areas.

Probably.

[superfangirl1]

Bart as naruto. lol

I love this so much and this is so awesome! <3

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Aww, man-- I'd love to see the Mega Man reference (and share it with the MM community)!

[silverzeo]

I can upload it on my photobucket profile and send the link for you, it is just one panel.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Thanks, but Superfangirl1 already took care of it. =)