This is a flip-book sampler released for Free Comic Book Day 2012.
This does not happen in the comic. That may be a good thing.
Bongo Comics Free-For-All 2012
Bongo Comics (2012)
THE SIMPSONS: “Tales From The Springfield Bear Patrol” WRITER: Brian Houlihan PENCILER: James Lloyd INKER: Andrew Pepoy COLORIST: Nathan Hamill LETTERER: Karen Bates EDITOR: Bill Morrison SERGIO ARANOGÉS: “My First Peso” WRITER/ARTIST: Sergio Aragonés (there are no actual credits but I believe this was from an autobiographical comic he was doing at the time.
OK, I’ll bite. How you set up a pool underwater?
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS: “Squidward And The Golden Clarinet”
WRITER: Derek Prymon ARTISTS: Gregg Schigel & Ramona Fradon COLORIST: Mark Martin LETTERING: Comicraft & Rick Parker SPONGEBOB FUNNIES STORY/ART: James Kochalka LETTERING: ComicraftOn what I think is the main side of the comic we have a Simpsons story and the Sergio comic. For the Simpsons, Homer is part of the Springfield Bear Patrol, who have to fight Chief Wiggum when bears start mauling people all over Springfield. The culprit is a guy who was bounced out of Celebrities Dancing With Bears. Yeah, I’m just not a fan of this story. It may be in league with how they currently write The Simpsons but that’s why I don’t watch the show. It just didn’t interest me.
The Sergio story is more interesting, as Aragonés recalls the first time he was paid for his artwork, when kids needed art for their homework and he needed money for a game he really wanted. It’s a nice look into the artist’s early years.
On the flip side are the two Spongebob comics, speaking of shows that don’t interest me, and neither does the comic. Spongebob is telling Squidward about the latest issue of the Aquaman and Aqualad parodies Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy but as usual his neighbor wants nothing to do with him until he leave a plot thread hanging involving a clarinet. So Squidward, not wanting to admit he’s interested, breaks into Spongebob’s place to read the comic, but he has an alarm and it’s guarded by the real Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (senior citizens on the show) who put him in jail as Spongebob decides to read all of the comics to him until he gets out. You know, I might read a comic with the younger versions of the superheroes. Spongebob and crew however I couldn’t care less about.
Then there are two short strips not done in the show’s style and I didn’t find them that funny. Actually, the Arangonés story was the only one I actually liked, and sadly it’s not enough to keep this one in my collection. I’d rather hunt down the full comics.
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