The gang of misfits that populate the Planet Express delivery service are the perfect way to it experience all the madness of the year 3000. Considering that Futurama has borrowed, aped, and ridiculed pretty much every sci-fiction trope over the years, it means that the show itself has almost become an archive of “futuristic” visual language that now has its own influence on everything that’s come after. As a comedy, the crew is designed for maximum humor, but there’s more to it than that, as we’re very much back where we started with Alien. Everyone is there for a reason (however ridiculous) and even when it seems like Bender is actively working against everyone else, they’re actually always there for each other when it matters. Even if your captain has become obsessed with hunting down and four-dimensional space whale. Would like to think I’m Leela, but I’m probably Ziodberg.
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Owen D. Pomery grew up in rural England before studying architecture and moving to London. Through his architectural illustration work, he started writing and drawing comics, becoming known on the UK scene with the publication of his debut book Between the Billboards & the Authoring of Architecture from Avery Hill Publishing. He followed this up with Victory Point; his latest graphic novel is the science fiction adventure The Hard Switch. He continues to work with an array of design clients and explores architecture and narrative illustration.
The Hard Switch will be released December 15; you can pre-order a copy here.
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