The other day I was
asked by Rachelle, a
fellow member of my
neighborhood athletic
club who knows that I
write for a living, about the
subject of my next book.
I told her it’s about
apes in comic books,
tossing out trivia about
Planet of the Apes and
Beppo...
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The other day I was
asked by Rachelle, a
fellow member of my
neighborhood athletic
club who knows that I
write for a living, about the
subject of my next book.
I told her it’s about
apes in comic books,
tossing out trivia about
Planet of the Apes and
Beppo the Super-Monkey.
She smiled and nodded,
“That sounds fun,” but
had a slightly vacant stare
that suggested she was
thinking, “Please, God,
let my cell ring…” I’ve
encountered this type of
reaction a lot when
telling “normal” people
about Comics Gone Ape!
If you’ve bought this
book, you’re not like
them—you “get it.
” You
understand that there is something beguiling about a jungle
princess scrapping with a mandrill… or a chimpanzee sleuth in a
deerstalker’s cap… or a super-intelligent talking gorilla mindblasting a fleet-footed super-hero.
The idea for Comics Gone Ape! came to me in December
2005, when I was bored out of my gourd during the earliest
scenes in Peter Jackson’s King Kong—good heavens, man, I paid
to see a giant ape, n
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