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Sky Ape: All The Heroes by Amara, Phil, McCarney, Tim, Russo, Mike (2003) Paperback
Millionaire. Crimefighter. Big friggin' gorilla. Kirk Madge, a.k.a. Sky Ape, is not your average gorilla with a jetpack. When danger rears its head, this freelance crimebuster doles out ass-whoopings like the President hands out free cheese. Join him as he unravels the secrets of his hazy past! This volume collects the complete sleeper hit comic book series. BONUS!: Included for the first time are pages of the never-seen lost SKY APE issue, and pinups by the likes of Mark Schultz (XENOZIOIC TALES), Guy Davis (THE NEVERMEN, THE MARQUIS) and Pop Mhan (SPYBOY).
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First published February 1, 2001
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August 18, 2020
There is more to this than greets the eye. Highly enjoyable but perilously flawed.
Although framed within Junior Varsity printing presentation/production, the artist really impressed me with everything Simian and mechanic with high marks on action portrayal but shocked me with such woefully disparitous humans- nearly all aesthetically junk up their panels.
"Pop-culture Token Compulsives" (my term) are a sad lot.
They watch/listen to just about anything impulsively and think of it as "material" instead of tossing it out of their conscience as most of it deserves. Such retention causes the need to cash in such tokens within writing/conversation to get value out of their wasted time. They fire off tightly orchestrated correlations that are surely hilarious but are always doomed to fall short or flat because they're working with material that their audience understands only partially or incorrectly altogether.
The writing would be so much better if they could stifle the constant references.
Although framed within Junior Varsity printing presentation/production, the artist really impressed me with everything Simian and mechanic with high marks on action portrayal but shocked me with such woefully disparitous humans- nearly all aesthetically junk up their panels.
"Pop-culture Token Compulsives" (my term) are a sad lot.
They watch/listen to just about anything impulsively and think of it as "material" instead of tossing it out of their conscience as most of it deserves. Such retention causes the need to cash in such tokens within writing/conversation to get value out of their wasted time. They fire off tightly orchestrated correlations that are surely hilarious but are always doomed to fall short or flat because they're working with material that their audience understands only partially or incorrectly altogether.
The writing would be so much better if they could stifle the constant references.
February 16, 2010
Parts of it, especially in the first half, were really funny, but other parts were too off-the-wall and seemed to be trying a bit too hard to be weird. But in the end, it's a book about a talking ape in a jetpack so how can you really go wrong?
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