The A-Team



US Issue Number: 023

UK Issue Number(s): 035, 036

Title Caption: Hey meatbag! Buy this comic or back off!

Act I
Bender takes over the ship and makes a donut causing a vortex which pulls the crew in but they manage to escape using light support. However another Planet Express ship emerges and its crew teleports onboard. The other crew are look-alikes of the main crew and are called Shelia, Sly and Mender who accidentally created a vortex and were sucked in. During their time in an uninhabited dimension the crew read, exercised, repaired the ship and cloned a better Zoidberg. When the Professor sees the other crew he is thrilled and Hermes fires Fry Bender and Leela and forces them to wear Non Person shirts which means everyone has to pretend they don’t exist. The crew has the time of their lives since they can’t get in trouble and the cops can’t arrest them. However they prefer their old jobs and decide to try and get them back.

Act II
The crew takes off their shirts and the cops banish them to the fandom zone where fans can’t stalk celebrities. If they concentrate the crew will be able to see the real world but the real world can’t see them. Only Mender can see them and reveal the rest of his crew are holograms since he killed the real crew. Leela gets an idea to download Bender’s mind into his spare body who uses a device to bring the rest of the crew to reality. Mender teleports to his ship and escapes but is followed by the crew. Bender tricks Mender into creating strong donut which pulls him in. The crew is about to get sucked in but use Bender’s jealousy of Mender to escape. Bender then decides that Mender is actually a role model for robots.

Trivia

 * Zoidberg wasn't fired despite there being a better clone

Characters
(In alphabetical order)


 * Bender
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Debut: Mender
 * Prof. Farnsworth
 * Debut: Shelia
 * Debut: Sly
 * Smitty
 * URL
 * Zoidberg
 * Debut: Zoidberg clone

Comic Credits

 * Script
 * Ian Boothby
 * Pencils
 * John Delaney
 * Inks
 * Andrew Pepoy
 * Colors
 * Colorbot 3000
 * Letters
 * Karen Bates
 * Editor
 * Bill Morrison