Kif of Death!

Kif of Death!
	; Characters on the cover: Leela, Fry, Bender, Amy, Scruffy, Kif, and Hattie.
US Publish Number	79
Written by	Ian Boothby
Art by	Tone Rodriguez
Published (US)	18 May, 2016

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Kif of Death! is the seventy-ninth comic issue, released on 18 May, 2016 ^[1] in the US.

The Story

The Planet Express crew is surprised to learn that Kif has come down with a rare fatal disease and has only a week to live. In keeping with Amphibiosan tradition, Leela and Amy attempt to throw a funeral that he can really enjoy before he passes on, but Kif has other ideas, plenty of other ideas. Meanwhile, Bender gets bent out of shape over Professor Farnsworth’s new vacuum cleaner, the Room Runner.

Additional Info

Continuity

Kif previously died and had a funeral in The Beast with a Billion Backs.

Goofs

iZac is mistakenly coloured brown.
The conspiracy nutter from 1947 is among the familiar characters at Kif's funeral.

Special Features

Junk Mail
Bongo Bonus Stamp - Amy Wong

Allusions

Scruffy poses at the front of his cruise ship in a similar pose to the well known scene in Titanic, the aliens behind him resemble the two lead characters of that movie.

Trivia

An advertisement appears in this issue indicating that "Something new and exciting is in store for Futurama Comics!" and that "The Bongo spirits will reveal it soon!"

Appearances

(In alphabetic order)

Characters

Amy
Debut: The Beatles' heads
Bender
Fry
Hermes
Kif
Leela
Professor Farnsworth
Debut: Room Runner
Scruffy
Taco Bellevue Doctor
Zapp
Zoidberg

Comic Credits

Script
- Ian Boothby
Pencils
- Tone Rodriguez
Inks
- Phyllis Novin
Colors
- Art Villanueva
Letters
- Karen Bates

References

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Futurama comics
Issues	1 — 20	"Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" • "...But Deliver Us to Evil!" • "The Owner of Mars Attacks!" • "DOOP the Right Thing!" • "Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?" • "Xmas Time Is Fear" • "New Year's Rockin' Evil" • "Planet X-Press Men" • "Freaky Fry-day" • "The Big Sweep" • "The Cure for the Common Clod" • "Sideshow Fry" • "The Bender You Say" • "Six Characters in Search of a Story" • "Fry Me to the Moon" • "Kickin' It Old School" • "The Time Bender Trilogy:" (Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3) • "Bender Breaks Out"
	21 — 40	"More than a Filling!" • "A Fit Worse than Death" • "The A-Team" • "Twice Told Tales of Interest" • "Robot Robin Hood" • "A Whole Lotta Leela" • "Rotten to the Core" • "Let's Twist Again" • "Downsized!" • "Fry and the Double-Bag Must-Have Item" • "As the Wormhole Turns" • "Doctor What" • "Attack of the 50-ft Amy" • "Planet Michelle" • "Son of the Sun" • "You Don't Wanna Know Jak!" • "Full Metal Racket" • "Rumble in the Jungle" • "Rust in Peace" • "Robot Santa's Little Helpers"
	41 — 60	"Soldier Boys" • "Homeward Boned" • "Welcome to my Nightmall" • "The Fry and the Furious!" • "Anthology of Interest II" • "Follow the Reader" • "Chitty Chitty Bend Bend" • "Claw and Order" • "Dummy Up!" • "Your Mother Wears Pilot Boots" • "Fry Cook!" • "Ro-Botox!" • "A Bump in the Flight" • "How Much is that Mutant in the Window?" • "The Trouble With Trilogies" • "Do You Want Fry with That?" • "Steampunk'd" • "Boomsday!" • "How to Secede Without Really Trying" • "The Bot Who Cried Wolf"
	61 — 80	"Troop Grit" • "Lost Our Leela" • "Igner-Ance is Bliss!" • "Secret Santa" • "The Sun Also Raises!" • "The Board Game Games" • "Tartar House Five" • "Futuramarutuf" • "Don't Go Taking my Heart!" • "The Devil and Professor F." • "Pizza Wars" • "Trading Spaces" • "Night of the Automated Dead" • "What the What if?" • "Bendership Galactica" • "Captain Brannigan: The Windbag Soldier" • "New New New York" • "Little Orphan Android" • "Kif of Death!" • "Dumbsday!"
	81 — 100	"A Touch of Medieval" • Futurama Comics #82
Simpsons Crossovers		"Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!" • "Liquid Diamond Is Forever!" • "Slaves of New New York!" • "The Read Menace!"
Mini-comics		"H.G. Blob in Revenge of the Blob" • "The Continuum Less Travelled" • "Leela & Amy in Hostile Makeover" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in The Seven Day Itch" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in Purple Tentacle Tour" • "Captain Zapp Brannigan in Rank Call!" • "Zoidberg Makes a House Call" • "H.G. Blob in A Funny Feeling in my Tummy" • "Breaking News"
Collections		Futurama-O-Rama • Futurama Adventures • Futurama: The Time Bender Trilogy • Futurama Conquers The Universe • The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis • Futurama Comics: To Infinity!
Special issues		"Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!" • "Futurama Returns" • "Delivery-Boy Man"
Comics related		Bongo Comics Group • Futuramaland

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