BONGO COMICS FOR MAY

FUTURAMA COMICS #55

Written and art by Ian Boothby.

Fearing that the Planet Express ship is about to crash, Fry, Bender, and Leela must each take a one-man escape pod, and they soon find themselves in separate worlds. Fry lands in a dusty, Old Western town under the thumb of a vengeful outlaw; Bender discovers a post-apocalyptic, fuel-deprived society of road warriors; and Leela becomes part of a society of blue-skinned natives who need help protecting their beloved rainforest from a military onslaught.

32 pages, $2.99.

SIMPSONS COMICS #178

Written and art by Ian Boothby and John Costanza.

Sideshow Bob is chosen for a new prison program to relocate inmates to a penal colony on the moon, but when the launch goes awry, an amnesiac Bob wanders Springfield, mistaken for a space alien and seeking vengeance on one individual -- Bart Simpson! (Whoever that is.)

32 pages, $2.99.

SIMPSONS SUMMER SHINDIG #5

Written and art by Ray Houlihan, Carol Lay and Pat McGreal.

The Simpsons spin a series of summertime stories: first, Homer and the barflies battle marauding wild beasts as members of the Springfield Bear Patrol; then, fearing the planet is on the brink of destruction, Lisa, Bart, and the rest of the children of Springfield, are determined to retain and remember what is most important to them — the collected cartoon catalog of The Itchy & Scratchy Show — before the world comes to an end; finally, Homer gives new meaning to the term “traveling light” when he takes on airplane weight restrictions by starting his own airline.

48 pages, $4.99.

BART SIMPSON, PRINCE OF PRANKS TP

Written and art by Matt Groening.

No one is safe and everyone is fair game as the Prince of Pranks, Bart Simpson, unloads his bag of tricks on his unsuspecting friends and family. Springfield Elementary will never be the same when Bart replaces Seymour Skinner as principal. Then, things get out of control and oversized when Bart gets his hands on Professor Frink’s newest invention, the Embigulator. Add in a new installment of Bart’s comic creation Angry Dad and a plot to make Ralph Wiggum the most feared kid on campus, and Bart Simpson, Prince of Pranks, will have you howling with laughter all the way to the Principal’s Office!

128 pages, $15.99.