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drsevarius (drsevarius) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-16 00:00:00

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title: marvel apes

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

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	crinosg 2009-04-15 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Always with the zombies these people. (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-04-15 11:44 pm UTC (link)
	Someone call Monkey-Aaron Stack. He's got a job to do. (Reply to this)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-04-15 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	...No, it's definitely the end. (Reply to this)

	aaron_bourque 2009-04-16 12:00 am UTC (link)
	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? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-04-16 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Er, I think it's meant to part of the goofiness -- a gag ending. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-04-16 02:14 am UTC (link)
	This is Marvel, you can NEVER be too sure. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-04-16 04:13 am UTC (link)
	I wouldn't say "rocks fall, everybody die" is a particularly good gag ending. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	liliaeth 2009-04-16 02:18 am UTC (link)
	Marvel Apes wasn't all that goofy to begin with though. Looking at the vampires and the way it ended. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xdoop 2009-04-16 07:24 am UTC (link)
	This isn't the last part. There are two more one-shots. http://www.marvel.com/catalog/?writer=Karl%20Kesel (Reply to this) (Parent)

kamino_neko
2009-04-16 12:38 pm UTC (link)

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).

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	xdoop 2009-04-16 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	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. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

kamino_neko
2009-04-17 05:45 am UTC (link)

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.

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	generalfreedom 2009-04-16 12:22 am UTC (link)
	...Oberon? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-04-16 02:13 am UTC (link)
	Too tall. That's Charles Darwin! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	liliaeth 2009-04-16 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Nah, it's Red Ghost, you know, from the Marvel Apes:Speedball spotlight. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-04-16 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Booooooooo. :P I don't read comics anymore. :p (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	liliaeth 2009-04-16 02:27 am UTC (link)
	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 (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daningram 2009-04-16 07:13 am UTC (link)
	Scanned, this scene must be! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-04-16 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Didn't think Marvel would actually do it but it was hinted a lot in the Speedball special. (Reply to this)

	zegim 2009-04-16 04:08 am UTC (link)
	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!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-04-16 04:22 am UTC (link)
	Marvel Zombie Monkeys Ninjas #1 Has to be the Kim Possible crossover, just to see Ron Stoppable's reaction! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	morgana006 2009-04-16 08:22 am UTC (link)
	I approve of this statement. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sd_mouser 2009-04-16 07:44 am UTC (link)
	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? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-04-16 07:48 am UTC (link)
	2) It's because of the dimensional breach caused by the Monkey Speedball. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	daningram 2009-04-16 01:18 pm UTC (link)
	So another Speedball has caused some kind of disaster? Nice, Joe Q. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-04-16 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	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). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-04-16 03:28 pm UTC (link)
	Did the Red Ghost have anything to do with it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kamino_neko 2009-04-17 05:47 am UTC (link)
	I would say no - he just exploited a lucky break like the zombies did. (Reply to this) (Parent)

sir_mikael
2009-04-16 09:35 pm UTC (link)

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.

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	sir_mikael 2009-04-16 09:38 pm UTC (link)
	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!" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	xdoop 2009-04-16 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	There are two more one-shots that will continue the storyline. (Reply to this) (Parent)