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  • Bob's Burgers #1



    Published by: Dynamite Comics
    Released on: Aug. 27, 2014


    From the small screen to the printed page, the Fox hit cartoon Bob's Burgers premiers in comic book format - huzzah!

    [MEATY REVIEW WITH SPOILER-AIOLI FOLLOWS]

    The first issue features individual stories involving all of the characters (but not, oddly enough, with any featuring Bob himself). The first is titled Tina's Erotic Friend Fiction Presents: My So-Called Life As A Horse and posits eldest daughter Tina who is just a horse. She enjoys life well enough even though some people at school make it difficult for her. That is, until one night, when she receives a plea for help from the mightiest pony team ever, the Equestranauts!

    She joins this team of magically-powered ponies in their attempt to defeat the evil wizard Xander. Tina then transforms into Tinasus and manages to save the day, in her own Tina way. She's then more accepted and popular at school and her family couldn't be happier. And she's caught the attention of Horse Jimmy Jr. now, too…

    The second tale is a one-page list of burger name ideas from Bob's restaurant. For fans of the show this is one of the constant hidden gems of each episode and it's played for maximum amusement here.

    The third story features Louise in Louise's Unsolved Mysteries & Curious Curiosities. It's picture day at school, something she detests as the cameramen always want her to remove her bunny hat. So she figures she can skip out on it. But when she begins to encounter other schoolmates that now seem to be mindless zombies after having their pictures taken that day, she begins to worry. And when she sees it's gotten to her siblings as well, it becomes personal. She confronts the photographer and gets him to reveal his motive of world domination - but still he and the zombie horde press on. She finally figures that to save everyone she must destroy his camera...which she does. Then, reality snaps back in and Louise has just destroyed some guy's camera rather than saving the world from any threat…

    After a one-page full-color display of Thundergirl patches and an art print of Jimmy Jr. dancing, it's time for Letters From Linda. The mother of the brood has written a letter to Apparently You're Parenting magazine with her “fun” new idea: A column that advises women on what amount of wine goes with certain events. Clothes shopping? That'd be two glasses. Reading your kids the same bedtime story for the tenth time? That's one-and-a-half glasses. And so on. The letter is signed cheerfully and half-in-the-bag-illy by Linda. The sheet of paper is also wine-soaked.

    The final story in this initial issue is Gene Belcher Presents: The Boy In the Burger - The Musical. Told pretty much entirely in song it's the story of Gene working the street outside of the restaurant in his burger outfit on a particularly hot day. His mother Linda pleads with him to come in and rest but he refuses, pressing on with his duty (while “holding [his] doodies”). But when he collapses and is rushed to the hospital he receives devastating news: He and the burger costume are now one, the heat having fused them together organically. Gene is crushed and retreats to the confines of his bedroom, vowing never to leave. He even pulls into his “shell,” much to the dismay of his parents who hope that time will allow him to learn to live again.

    He stays that way until deep into the winter. His sisters are lamenting their cabin fever, wishing they had some way/reason to get out. Gene then triumphantly pops out of his burger shell and declares to them that he can be their sled! They are ecstatic so, Peter Pan-like, they all fly out the window and start “burger sledding.” They joyously sing the song of burger sledding, inspiring others they meet along the way to get themselves a burger. It also inspires Gene to write a new musical drama, set on a planet where burgers eat people. Because of course.

    With stories written by writing vets of the show - Mike Olsen, Rachel Hastings and Justin Hook, plus Jeff Drake - and featuring artwork from show production members as well like Tony Gennaro, Brad Rader and Bernard Derriman, this first issue is a promising hit for the comic adaptation of one of the funnest and consistently funniest shows on network television. The style is completely in line with the television show, such that reading the characters' dialog you'll even hear it in your head in the voices of Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal and John Roberts. And the mixed-media approach to content makes the issue feel like it's pulled right from the show itself which is a comfortable and rewarding experience for fans of any level of Bob's Burgers.
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