Futuramics - About

FuturamaComics.com seemed like it is was too long (rule #2 of website design: make your .com short and memorable) and it seemed it would cause legal issues so I combined the words and started asking family and friends if it's something they would remember. For the most part I got positive response and decided to go with it. The .info instead of .com comes from the fact someone else bought that .com before I did. This was cheaper but still the only thing avaiable.

I used to work for an after school program and I created a arcade style website that I could control so the kids could play games appropriate for them and the program but keep the entertained. I put a few google ads on the site to help pay for the expenses of running a website and I started generating money from the ads. I figured out this was mostly due to the fact the kids would accidently hit a link but it still counted. After the program was done I was left with this website stuck because it was no longer generating money. And the thing I learned about google is they make you get to a certain amount of money before they will pay you. So I wanted to get what Google owed me so I strated thinking about a website I could create and finish the evil deed of making me money. Eventually after making a list of the things I liked, eliminating the ones I would get bored with, eliminating the ones that would be easy to keep up wtih, and elimnating the ones that had to much compition I settled to make a website dedicated to one of my hobbies; Collecting Futurama Comics. It started off rough but eventually after many hours of frustration and long nights and many cans of Coca-Cola it turned out as it is today. I taught myself how to program in basic PHP to make updating the website as easy as I possibly could so I couldn't get tired of all the hard work that goes into maintaining a website alone. But anyhow, that basically how the website came to be.

Futurama Comics is a comic book series published by Bongo Comics and based on the television series Futurama. It has been published bi-monthly in the United States since November 2000 (apart from a brief break for the crossover) until 2003 and is now quarterly. It has been published in the United Kingdom (with an altered order) and futurama title

Australia since 2002 and three trade paperbacks have been released. During the production hiatus between 2003 and 2006 it was the only new Futurama material being made.

In the year 3000, the crew of the Planet Express delivery company make cargo shipments to unusual planets, as well as having adventures back on Earth. The characters are Philip J. Fry, a man from the 20th century who was cryonically frozen for 1,000 years, cyclops ship captain Turanga Leela, and alcoholic robot Bender. The comic will often make more use of supporting or minor characters than the series, such as Cubert Farnsworth, the Robot Devil and Inez Wong.

Each issue consists of at least one story of around 27 pages (occasionally brief stories also appear), and a letters and fanart page. There are also full-page mock advertisements marketing futuristic products (such as Brain Slugs), which parody the kinds of coupon offers found in other comic books.
Special editions of some issues are published on occasion; a variant of the first issue available only at Comic Con 2000 featured a golden background, rather than red.

In a similar vein to the parent series, each issue features a humorous caption on the cover (for example, "Made In The USA! (Printed in Canada)"). These captions also vary according to where it is sold. Each issue is a self-contained story which lasts one issue (though the Time Bender Trilogy spanned four issues) and it is printed in the standard 6⅝" x 10¼" size.

Titan Magazines began printing Futurama Comics in the United Kingdom in 2002, with the first issue going on sale on October 3rd.The UK version is a larger A4 size and there is a sidebar on the front cover previewing what is inside. The same content is featured in these issues as in the United States, but there are also competitions and more "fan art". The order of release is altered from the original line-up; the crossovers were published as part of the main series, pushing some issues back. US issue 7 was published as UK issue 6 to coincide with the release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Captions are also changed as well, with the aforementioned issue changed to "Rise of the Machines!" and issue 3 reading "New Version 5.0!" on account of it being printed two issues later. "DOOP the Right Thing" was not published until issue 9.

Until issue 14, the comics were published bi-monthly. From issue 15 until issue 44 they were published monthly and, to avoid catching up with the US issues (which were by now quarterly), the issues were then split in two, though "Bender Breaks Out" was published as a full issue as otherwise the story does not make sense. From issue 45 onwards the comics are reveting back to bi-monthly.
Special promotional editions are also published; a miniature edition of "DOOP the Right Thing" was included with an issue of the UK Simpsons Comics.

The comic began publishing in Australia in 2002 and follows the same release pattern as the US. However, until issue 16, they were published quarterly, going bi-monthly in late 2005. There are variations in the captions used; "A Fit Worse Than Death" was originally printed without one, with the Australian publishers adding "Medicine In The 31st Century".