BONGO COMICS REVIEW: Bart Simpson Out To Lunch TP

Hop into the lunch line at Springfield Elementary School for a sweet and savory meal, high in humor and saturated satire. Join Bart Simpson and his pals and gals as they square off for the title of ‘Class Clown,’ outwit a robotic custodian run amok, surf both the social network and the school’s massive mud puddle, lose their cool, learn the blues, get their groove back, and much, much more! Even if you’re brown-bagging it, Bart Simpson: Out to Lunch meets and exceeds your recommended daily allowance for laughs.

Spoilers Below

CLASS KLOWN

Milhouse and Bart duke it out to see who is the true Springfield Elementary class clown after Krusty calls it a draw. Their hijinks make them go so crazy they eventually have to take their pranks outside school walls and in each other’s homes! However, the boys soon learn the prize for being the class clown is a bit too steep so they ring in a little help to make Krusty Burger the the stink of the town!

NAPTIME FOR MURDER

Moe and Maggie are going around town solving Springfield’s most dangerous mysteries…but they forget one!

SAXOPHONY

Bart tries to get back at Lisa for ruining his trip to Mt Splashmore by ‘learning’ how the play the sax. However, when a school recital hits, Lisa finds out that Bart’s influences are all ‘digital’ and ends up spoiling the fun.

CITIZEN CANE

Jimbo’s disrespect for the elderly lands him in community service at the Springfield Retirement Center. There he learns that he isn’t the worst offender of rights belonging to Senior Citizens and as such learns that the elderly have a roough enough time trying to stay relevant in society and that they don’t need to be pushed down any further.

DOG GONE HOLLYWOOD

Bart Simpson has this great act. It’s a dog that can sing, dance, act, and talk. Except, when he brings Santa’s Little Helper to a talent agency Bart learns that a man’s best friend can’t do any of those things…

LISA’S BAD WORD

Lisa screams out a big ol’ tirade of explicit wording throughout the school cafeteria and lands her self in hot water with Skinner. Her punishment is to spend two weeks with Lunch Lady Doris and help her around the cafeteria. Problem is Doris has as much of a foul mouth as anyone and soon she even knocks her self unconscious from all her random torts. Unfortunately, a school faculty lunch is being served on Lisa’s last day and she has to cook the entire meal by herself. Unfortunately, or the faculty they aren’t used to eating fresh veggies, wholesome soups, and the like but what does Lisa care? Cuz its their $&*()#&#( problem now!

BARTSPACE

Remember myspace? Yea, me too…

MAGGIE’S MELTDOWN

It’s take your daughters to work day which means Lisa and Maggie are going to work with Homer at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Once there, Lisa hops out and gets to picketing like the jerk that she is, and Maggie takes off into the factory while Homer and his pals are arguing over fried pastries. One of those pastries gets loose and nearly takes down the whole plant, that is until Maggie springs into action and saves the day. But, she’s glowing!

BART’S NAME IS MUD

Willie is hungover and as a result leaves his water hose running on the playground creating one huge mud bath for all the kids to play in during recess. Soon, the faculty finds out but they end up not caring as they have a full line up of soaps to get to watchin’.

COOL RULES

Lisa’s Malibu Stacy dresses just aren’t cutting it with the cool kids. So she decides to design her own, only to find out that the design she comes up with is too cool even for the cool kids. Cool?

AYE, ROBOT

Skinner hires a robot at school to replace Willie. Eventually, the kids hate the damn thing because it keeps coming around sucking up all the lunches, the books, and all the fun! To help combat this, all the kids get together and put together a bunch of sacks full of magnets so that when the robot sucks them up it goes haywire. Well, it does just that nearly killing Skinner, that is until Willie comes to the rescue proving once again mind will always prevail over machine!

HOW MISS HOOVER GOT HER GROOVE BACK

Ms. Hoover hates her job and Lisa sets out to find out why but fails miserably despite the museum trips, and the endearing muscle man that catches the eye of the other faculty. However, Hoover soon learns its her hatred of teaching that keeps get going, much to the dismay of Lisa and the rest of the students.

YELLOW CHEF

Bart gets sick of the terrible food served from the cafeteria and decides to give it a go. He actually ends up making one the best sounding lunches in recent memory for Springfield Elementary but he used the entire food supply in one day. Which means, its back to square one on terribad lunches.

SPLIT DECISIONS

Bart fools around with one of Frink’s machines causing everyone in Springfield to clone themselves everytime they make a decision.. Evidently, everyone ‘s clone in Springfield makes a decision to kill Bart, but luckily he gets off but like usual doesn’t learn his lesson.

BART DRAWS A STRIP

Bart imagines Lisa getting eaten by a tiger.

 

Actually that last tale proves to be the funniest, but overall a decent amount of quality for Bongo’s latest trade paper back. I really liked the variety in characters used, from Maggie, to Lisa, to Bart, hell even Jimbo gets a strip. One area where there isn’t much variety is in the stories as we get a lot of sci-fi inspired stories mixed in with Bart or Lisa wanting to cook for the school. Having said that, I do think this collection would fit quite nicely in anyone looking for it or even better yet a decent entry point for new discoverers of Simpsons Comics.

(8.0 out of 10)