The holidays are coming, and Neill Cameron has drawn a ridiculous advent calendar that is relevant to my interests. Admittedly these are from last year, but this year’s Santa Sketchfest is under way over at Neill’s Blog.
I may or may not be posting in the coming weeks due to upcoming family health stuff. Happy holidays if not, and we’ll see if I’m completely out of gorilla steam soon enough.
Based on the covers I’ve found in scouring the internet, Strange Adventures might be my favorite comic. Seriously. Trapped in a gorillas mouth for 36 pages. Awesome. Anyone know if these have been collected?
Even in the 1940’s, (albeit poorly drawn) gorillas were big business in comics. The question, however, is whether or not the Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of gorillas. Also whether or not the ape in question was a thinly veiled racist propaganda device.
Animal-man gets beaten up by a gorilla who appears to be dressed as Beetlejuice in what can only be described as “fucking amazing” in this Strange Adventures. Also, I kind of feel like this might be a weird jab at Marvel’s Hank “Beast” McCoy”, given his blueness and the fact that he refers to himself as “the real McCoy.” I’d like to think DC writers were speculating whether or not Animal Man would have access to the powers of Beast, given the fact that he is largely animal-ish.
When one guy gets powers from genetic mutation, and the other from being near an exploding alien spaceship, whose come out on top? I demand answers!
Apparently, Jerry Lewis had a comic book. Also, he went to Italy and decided to buddy up to King Kong—Who was also in Italy, presumably on vacation, after becoming bored with the relatively flat modern architecture of New York.
There is but one word for this: Awesome.
In the 90’s, Dark Horse had a series called Monkeyman and O’Brien. Ann O’Brien’s father was working on interdimensional travel, and she accidentally brought Axewell Tiberius (AKA Monkeyman) in from another dimension, whence wackiness ensued.
Frankly, I don’t know much about this series other than I’m pissed off that the gorilla isn’t named O’Brien. That and Wikipedia tells me that the bad guys were “The Frogladytes” which is awesome.
Fact: When in gorilla form, Clayface can defeat both the Joker and Batman.
Ergo, gorillas > any other form of life, at least in comics.
Yeah.
So about a week and 22 posts later, I added a comments field. You do have to click on the timestamp of individual posts on the main page, and it’s just Disqus, so don’t get too excited.
Also, note the “requests” button at the top of the page. Please use this to contact me, or if you have suggestions for great Gorilla-ness.
That is all website business, now back to the usual grind of… weird nonsense that I’m now known for. I guess.
This is from the era of “Gorillamania” in comics, when apes were thought to improve sales if placed on covers. During this time, they made a gorilla-version of most heroes. Now, with Superman, you make a supergorilla; with Hawkman, you simply cram wings on one and come up with a snappy title. God bless the 60s. And the 70s for good measure.
More Communist apery, this time on the Marvel side of the Iron Curtain. Ivan Kragoff, the Red Ghost, and a set of 3 trained space-traveling apes, were the bane of Iron Man, Spiderman, the Fantastic Four, and probably showed up in a Deadpool book because who the heck hasn’t. And by “the bane,” I more likely mean the “big red punching bags.”
