The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 1

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The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 1

US Issue Number: 017
UK Issue Number(s): 024, 025
Title Caption: 4 out of 5 aliens recommend...
Published (US): May 26th 2004
Published (UK): 22nd September 2005
Trade Paperback: The Time Bender Triology

The Story

Act I

Fry, Bender, Leela and Cubert have returned to earth to find it is deserted but all Fry and Bender want to do is loot, until Lrrr and Ndnd appear claiming the planet since it is legally uninhabited and would only be inhabited if there were at least 100 people living there. Fry makes up a story that there are 100 people at Planet Express; but if they aren’t sent over in an hour Fry and Bender will be slaves. At Planet Express Cubert finds some pieces of a device that was recently used and have chroniton readings. Cubert is suddenly taken off by a pterosaur that came out of a vortex which lands where the omicronions are. Cubert is used as a slave.

Act II

Bender ties the time vortex in a knot before the crew find Cubert and they bring Zoidberg’s shells and some mannequins with them to disguise them as the needed population, they also dress up as other people. The omicronians leave and Leela finds a video attached to the pterosaur’s foot, which shows all of Earth's citizens in the time of the dinosaurs and Prof. Farnsworth recording it. He explains that his experiment opened a time vortex and that the crew must bring three pieces of the machine. Fry realises that if the earth isn’t saved he will cease to exist but there is still time to save it. The time vortex is in three parts after Bender tied it in a knot and each crewmember is sucked in with a piece of the time machine into different years…

Additional Info

Trivia

  • This is the second time bender has attached ears to his head. The first time was in Godfellas
  • The art in this issue is different from Kickin' It Old School which is before this isssue, this is due to a different person inking the previous issue. All other staff is consistant for the trilogy.

Quotes

  • Professor: Well, I've got to go. Time to flee in terror again!
  • Leela: Fry, after I stop screaming in terror, remind me to kick your butt....
    Bender: After you kick his butt, I'm gonna kick his ass!

Alien Language Sightings

Location: Omicronian flag
Language: AL1
Translation: 8

Goofs

  • Bender mentions he hates the taste of attached files but Bender can't taste.
  • The cover art, which in this case does refer to the comic's content, mistakingly lists the population as 3, it should be 4.

Characters

(In alphabetical order)

Comic Credits

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