According to reports from out of NYCC , the suspicions of funny fans across the internet have lastly , officially , been substantiate : Marvel have allow in that they ’re just monkeying around with their characters . Or , at least , they will when new serial Marvel Apes debut , bringing a new tier of banana tree worship to the grinder of the House of Ideas . Is the world quick for the first appearance of Spider - Monkey ?
The serial – long mentioned by Marvel brain Joe Quesada and assumed to be a joke – will be written by former Superman writer Karl Kesel , who was the first to take that the projection does n’t precisely sound real :
Of course , the first thing that come to your head are the joke and regretful puns — Spider - MONKEY is a Italian sandwich in MONKhattan in the United SIMIANS of America . It ’s a Cocktail Party Idea — one you’re able to toss out around funny one - ocean liner about with your friends as you sip drink ( in this case : banana daiquiris ) . But to have a STORY you involve more than jokes . You need conflict , you postulate characters readers can look up to and steady down for , and you want something real at stake . That ’s when you start face past the banana peels and ask yourself : Okay , how does this companionship really work ? What ’s significant to these characters ? For all its law of similarity to the mainstream Marvel Universe , how is it dissimilar ? Once you compute that out , the story almost writes itself .
Yes , despite what you think , this really is a fib where all the familiar fibre get a scamp makeover , and it ’s one where there ’s a more serious subtext :
The matter about monkeys and ape is that they look like us , but they ’re not us . So you put them in wearing apparel and they look funny . But it ’s more than that because monkeys - in - clothes ( or ape - in - capes , in this instance ) give up people to laugh at themselves without really laughing at themselves . You do n’t laugh at a scamp dress as George W. Bush because he ’s doing the same stunned thing the real Bush does — no no no . You ’re laugh at him because a scalawag dressed as George W. Bush wait FUNNY ! ( At least , that ’s what we tell ourselves . ) And there ’s a touch of that “ court jester ” comedy / comment in this story , too . You almost ca n’t avoid it .
Watch for , as Quasi would sing , apeself remaining in us towards the end of this year .
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