Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium: Volume Three
Not a bad collection. Some interesting longer stories, especially a huge three-parter about Krusty’s attempt to revive the flagging fortunes of the Radioactive Man comic. Radioactive Man seems to be a popular figure in these comics, perhaps for all the self-referential humour. They certainly do a number on the overuse of crossover plots here.
There’s also a lot of the usual surrealism, as when Professor Frink’s “Cool Juice” turns all the male inhabitants of Springfield into hipster Rat Packers, or when Milhouse’s dream life interacts with reality in chaotic ways. But there are also the jokes that land closer to home, like Homer telling Bart not to get angry at the news (“The TV can’t hear you, no matter how loud you yell, boy. Believe me, I’ve tried!”) and the way the Springfield Library is saved by becoming a homeless shelter. Also worth noting is the inking by Andrew Pepoy, which goes deep into heavy shadow effects. I liked the way it looked.
I thought the shorter stories were all duds, and to be honest I couldn’t see the point in several of them.
The papercraft Springfield building is the Kwik-E-Mart. It looks like it’s just a box with no add-ons, so not very interesting.
Alex Good 
What are these papercrafts you mention? Like 3D jigsaws?
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Yep. You can cut them out and then fold them and insert the tabs in the right slots and you have a little paper building which is one of the familiar locations from the show (Moe’s Tavern, the Kwik-E-Mart, the comic book store).
I don’t put them together, but that’s the concept.
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Aw, you could have a little Springfield on display in your library!
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Well, that would be where it would belong. But I’ll pass!
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Given the surrealism, shouldn’t they do a story in which the TV *does* hear them? That could be funny. It’s not like we yell the most intelligent comments at the news all the time.
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I feel like that might have been tried in one of the TV episodes once. Maybe one of the Treehouse of Horrors. I haven’t watched the Simpsons in twenty years though. Still remember them fondly from their glory days. Or at least the days when I had TV.
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No TV? How do you watch movies? Or do you just mean no cable, satellite, streaming?
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Yeah, I just meant I don’t have any connection. I do have a TV but it’s just hooked up to a DVD player.
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