The Bender You Say

US Issue Number: 013

UK Issue Number(s): 015, 016

Title Caption: Stick a fork in it...it's fun! Published (US): May 28th 2003

Published (UK): January 13th 2005

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Act I
After bender’s cooking puts the planet express crew to sleep, Bender searches for a way to spice it up from a black market. The store owner gives him pepper which was banned since it killed a species of invading aliens. Bender is then fired after his food kills the health inspector and the only job he can find is cooking for the Robot Devil. Who is then also killed from his cooking. This causes robots to stop coming to the church of robotology, and in the last moment of need, the preacherbot turns to Bender to be the new Robot Devil.

Act II
With Leela and Fry as his minions, Bender ends up turning robot hell into a paradise for sinners. Fry then has to remind Bender that he has to torture the robots. Bender finds that being the devil is too hard work and runs off to work in a soup kitchen. Fry and Leela follow him and they all find the robot devil that faked his death to get a vacation on the sun. While they were gone all the sinners escaped so the devil uses a sin magnet to bring them back to hell. Bender is then revealed to be the reincarnation of the robot Buddha.

Trivia

 * This was the first issue to be split in half in the UK

Quotes

 * Fry: Holy cow! Bender walked through a wall. Maybe he really is the devil...or a ghost that just wants to be friendly. Leela: When you're done being an idiot, help me find a switch on this wall.
 * Robot Devil: Bwah ha-ha-ha-ha!. I'm sorry. I just remembered a joke Robot Hitler told me this afternoon.

Characters
(In alphabetical order)


 * Amy
 * Bender
 * Elzar
 * Fry
 * Hermes
 * Leela
 * Preacherbot
 * Prof. Farnsworth
 * Zoidberg

Comic Credits

 * Script
 * Ian Boothby
 * Pencils
 * James Lloyd
 * Inks
 * Steve Steere, Jr.
 * Letters
 * Karen Bates
 * Color
 * Joey Mason
 * Editor
 * Bill Morrison