Marvel Apes? Are You Serious?

With the success of Marvel Zombies, it only makes sense that the company explore all of the bizarre creative ideas available to them, right?

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NYCC was this past weekend and, as many expected, featured a number of announcements regarding the upcoming schedules for both Marvel and DC. Deadpool’s getting his own solo series, which is great for all the Deadpool fans out there. Mark Waid was announced as an upcoming writer for Amazing Spider-Man, which is great news for all the Spidey fans. Also, Marvel Apes was shown off to the public. Yep, it was a pretty solid convention for Marv…wait…What?!

Marvel Apes? Are you serious?

Marvel Apes

Oh, they’re serious. Written by Karl Kessel and penciled by Ramon Bachs, Marvel Apes plans to be the “sensational simian mini-series of the season” according to Kessel.

“MARVEL APES is the sensational simian mini-series of the season!” reports Kesel. “It’s four issues of furry fury and feces-flingin’ fun! It’s all your favorite Marvel characters—as you’ve never seen them before! If you only buy one mini-series next October about intelligent, super-powered apes and monkeys – it must be MARVEL APES!”

“You thought everything was already done and nothing new could be created,” questions the artist. “You were wrong!”

I don’t think it was that people thought everything had been done, I just don’t think people ever believed that a big company like Marvel would ever sink so low as to create something like Marvel Apes. Am I wrong? Is this not the worst idea ever? Feel free to let me know what you think about this one with a comment so that I don’t feel completely alone.

For those of you that actually care, Marvel Apes will apparently be making itself known October 2008.

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7 Comments

  1. DougFungus said...

    I’m buying it!

  2. Mike Haynes said...

    Ugh.

    I’ll be passing on this one…in case you didn’t gather that much from the post.

  3. Crackerbob said...

    I’m getting a “so bad it’s AWESOME!” feeling, actually.

  4. Baddie said...

    It’s not even a new idea. You guys remember JLApes? Yeah. But still, feces-flingin’ fun? I’m in!

  5. Mike Haynes said...

    Well I’ll be damned:

    “JLApe”, a crossover through the various 1999 annuals of the Justice League of America members’ series, in which a bomb planted by inhabitants of Gorilla City turned the United Nations and the League into gorillas.

    I had never heard of this until right now. Thanks for the comment Baddie!

  6. MidKnight said...

    I’m psyched about the solo Deadpool serious. He’s a great character and I think others would agree.

    I honestly don’t really know what to say about the Marvel Apes. I just think it’s going to be a sad year for Marvel if this is the best they can do.

  7. Mike Haynes said...

    I think this will be the lowest point in the year for them but they’ve got a bunch of really wicked things coming out this year that will no doubt make up for the abomination that will undoubtedly be Marvel Apes.

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