Marvel Just Doesn’t Care Any More (Monkey Edition)
I can’t thank Newsarama’s blog for reminding me of this, but yeah…I heard about this around NYCC, but I promptly blocked it out of my mind because it’s so depressing. That image above is Marvel Apes, which?you’d best be sitting down, because is pretty wacky?imagines of Marvel Superheroes…were apes! Isn’t that hilarious? Because instead of Spider-man, it’s Spider-monkey! And instead of Iron Man, it’s Iron Ape! (Or maybe Iron Ape is Iron Fist. I kind of refuse to find out.) I mean, it was funny when D.C. did it as J.L.Ape back in 1999 (!), so it should be extra funny now, a decade later, right?! Right?
Intriguingly, while I instantly hate the comic Marvel Apes, I kind of like the idea of Marvel Apes action figures. I’m complicated like that.
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