The end of Marvel Apes: Amazing Spider-Monkey #1

[drsevarius.insanejournal.com]

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[crinosg.insanejournal.com]

Always with the zombies these people.

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

Someone call Monkey-Aaron Stack. He's got a job to do.

[sandoz_iscariot.insanejournal.com]

...No, it's definitely the end.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Fuck, seriously? They destroy the goofy series by dumping the sucky grimdark ZOMBIES on it?

. . .

What is it about killing fun that these people enjoy so much?

[arbre_rieur.insanejournal.com]

Er, I think it's meant to part of the goofiness -- a gag ending.

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

This is Marvel, you can NEVER be too sure.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

I wouldn't say "rocks fall, everybody die" is a particularly good gag ending.

[liliaeth.insanejournal.com]

Marvel Apes wasn't all that goofy to begin with though. Looking at the vampires and the way it ended.

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This isn't the last part.

There are two more one-shots.

http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?writer=Karl%20Kesel

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

Zombies aren't exactly grimming up the Marvel Apes universe.

One of the MAJOR aspects of the series - a major aspect of this one-shot, as well - was that this is a world populated by APES.

Not funny cartoon apes, but savage beasts, whose idea of justice is to beat any criminal who doesn't become submissive to the alpha to death.

The Apevengers murder Doc Ook in the first issue (while Marty watches on in horror). The Invaders (minus the Human Torch) are vampires, who murder Reed Richards. And were going to invade the 616 universe for more blood until the Apevengers and Marty stopped them. Speedball didn't want to return, because he was marked for death for helping Marty. Spider-Monkey, at the beginning of this issue, was seconds away from vacuuming up Sandmonk, when Wolverine stopped him, because the dust-up was friendly. (And Spider-Monkey is one of the gentle simians.)

etc.

The Marvel Zombies series (particularly 1, 3, and 4) have a LOT more humour than Marvel Apes did (the humour in which, outside of the names, was restricted to the backups).

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

While Marvel Apes is dark at times, it's also light-hearted and silly. I think Marvel Zombies is darker. Any humor in Marvel Zombies was black humor.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

While Marvel Apes is dark at times, it's also light-hearted and silly.

Only in the backups. (Even then, I'd deny 'lighthearted' - the humour is very pointed, at points.) The main story was devoid of silliness except for the bad puns that make up many of the character names - and the dark humour of making the surface cartooniness of a world populated by anthropomorphic apes on its head by making the apes realistically savage.

That doesn't make the series 'lighthearted and goofy'. It just puts a shiny veneer on the darkness, which is peeled away in the first issue.

[generalfreedom.insanejournal.com]

...Oberon?

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

Too tall.

That's Charles Darwin!

[liliaeth.insanejournal.com]

Nah, it's Red Ghost, you know, from the Marvel Apes:Speedball spotlight.

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

Booooooooo. :P

I don't read comics anymore. :p

[liliaeth.insanejournal.com]

The spotlight was pretty decent. It had poor monkey Speedball confronted with the real Speedball's parents, made them somewhat more sympathetic than that Speedball bit in Civil War: Frontline did

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Scanned, this scene must be!

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Didn't think Marvel would actually do it but it was hinted a lot in the Speedball special.

[zegim.insanejournal.com]

Attention true believer!!! Coming soon!!!

Marvel Zombie Monkeys Ninjas #1!!!! (With 5 Wolverine "Crisis in infinite Bubs" variant covers)!!!

The event that will change everything forever!!! Don't dare you miss it!!!

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Marvel Zombie Monkeys Ninjas #1

Has to be the Kim Possible crossover, just to see Ron Stoppable's reaction!

[morgana006.insanejournal.com]

I approve of this statement.

[sd_mouser.insanejournal.com]

1) I was JOKING when I suggested this!

2) The zombies never got dimensional travel - that was the point of the Ultimates crossover.

3) Wasn't Zombie:wasp bitten in half by the guy next to her?

4) Can they both please not just mutually annihilate each other?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

2) It's because of the dimensional breach caused by the Monkey Speedball.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

So another Speedball has caused some kind of disaster? Nice, Joe Q.

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

Speedball had nothing to do with this, other than being the unwilling target of the scanning. It was Iron Mandrill and Bruce Bananner's doing, primarily - despite Spider-Monkey's attempts to stop them (to protect Speedball and Earth-616).

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

Did the Red Ghost have anything to do with it?

[kamino_neko.insanejournal.com]

I would say no - he just exploited a lucky break like the zombies did.

[sir_mikael.insanejournal.com]

You know, if this story gets continued and it's not a gag ending, I'd wish they'd have picked other zombie characters.
It's annoying that the most popular characters (and Wasp) that's everywhere get's to be the zombie characters that get's to be everywhere. Would be nice to see more of the other zombies, especially if this takes place before other zombie stuff (where basically the popular ones are cosmically enpowered seem to be the only ones left).
Anywhoo in a way I guess it't just me going "But wasp is a good head kissing ppl while missing lips! Wolvie has less arms than that! etc"
BUT if this is some clever thing that takes place before earlier stuff we've witnessed I'd really enjoy it. Those zombies seem to have been everywhere in time/space.

[sir_mikael.insanejournal.com]

Oh and I love how Red Ghost is all "I know can phase and stuff but fuck it, these are zombies, they're creeping me out and I'm taking no goddamn chances. I'm getting the hell out of here!"

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

There are two more one-shots that will continue the storyline.