What do you think?
Rate this book
Monkeys & Midgets
1!..2!...3! It’s over! Those are the last things that any wrestler want’s to hear in the ring, but the most exciting part to the fans watching the action. But wait, this is no ordinary wrestling comic, no not at all; When the Empire Wrestling league falls upon hard times the crooked management team decides that the only way to keep from going out of business is to force it’s luchadores to battle untrainable chimps in the ring in order to generate money and publicity. All out chaos and hilarity ensue when the monkeys get out of control, the masked wrestlers are frazzled to their last nerve, and the greedy owners decide to push the limits of their wrestlers even further! A great read for the wrestling fan, the monkey fan, or those who just like to laugh!
96 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2005
About the author
Mike Gagnon
58 books8 followersMike Gagnon has been working in the publishing industry for approximately 15 years. In that time his work has been published by Marvel (writing and coloring), Dark Horse (coloring), Jack Lake Production’s reprint series of Classics Illustrated (coloring, inking and art restoration) and many more. Mike has also written for a number of industry magazines including Back Issue and Sketch magazine. Mike is currently focusing on teaching new comic creators, developing his own creator owned comics and stories, as well as working on the forefront of ethical print and digital technology for publishing and art creation. You can find out more about his efforts to change the way books are published including his own publishing house, All Day Breakfast Foundation.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
June 11, 2019
Illuminati Comics.
Glossy comic book about a group of professional wrestlers falling on hard times. Desperate to keep their business going, their unscrupulous manager, who has clearly squandered the money earned on his own lavish lifestyle, dupes them into combating wild circus monkeys instead of other wrestlers.
Initially of course, the monkeys cause mayhem, which appeals to the audiences at the shows who are eager for sensational drama, and this mess continues until the human wrestlers work together to bring the situation under control.
One monkey however is in fact half human, being the illegitimate bestiality spawned offspring of a union between an ape and a Mexican wrestling woman marooned in the jungles. This is as every bit morally questionable, contrived, unlikely and unfeasible as it seems.
There are flashes of genuine humour, i.e. the names of characters, such as the vain and effete Davey Goliath, and the movement is quite animated though the drawings are often very simplistic.
The plot is predictable, in the use of corrupt managers, wrestlers being paid to take a dive which they don’t then take, and the weakest, wrestler, seen losing in the early the early part of the story becomes the hero in the end just as anyone can see coming a mile away.
There is a finale in which the artist/author show pictures of the minor characters and what fate befell them after the adventure given. This suggests that the authors don’t plan to present their wrestling and monkey story as the first of a series.
The work is in black and white apart from the glossy cover art and much of the book (really a padded out one-off comic) in which almost a quarter of the booklet is taken up with adverts and trailers for other Illuminati comic book work, none of which looks particularly interesting.
Arthur Chappell
Glossy comic book about a group of professional wrestlers falling on hard times. Desperate to keep their business going, their unscrupulous manager, who has clearly squandered the money earned on his own lavish lifestyle, dupes them into combating wild circus monkeys instead of other wrestlers.
Initially of course, the monkeys cause mayhem, which appeals to the audiences at the shows who are eager for sensational drama, and this mess continues until the human wrestlers work together to bring the situation under control.
One monkey however is in fact half human, being the illegitimate bestiality spawned offspring of a union between an ape and a Mexican wrestling woman marooned in the jungles. This is as every bit morally questionable, contrived, unlikely and unfeasible as it seems.
There are flashes of genuine humour, i.e. the names of characters, such as the vain and effete Davey Goliath, and the movement is quite animated though the drawings are often very simplistic.
The plot is predictable, in the use of corrupt managers, wrestlers being paid to take a dive which they don’t then take, and the weakest, wrestler, seen losing in the early the early part of the story becomes the hero in the end just as anyone can see coming a mile away.
There is a finale in which the artist/author show pictures of the minor characters and what fate befell them after the adventure given. This suggests that the authors don’t plan to present their wrestling and monkey story as the first of a series.
The work is in black and white apart from the glossy cover art and much of the book (really a padded out one-off comic) in which almost a quarter of the booklet is taken up with adverts and trailers for other Illuminati comic book work, none of which looks particularly interesting.
Arthur Chappell
Displaying 1 of 1 review