The Stop Button

What anti-climatic drivel.

I won’t even bother with Marshall’s mutant apes with super-healing powers. Or how he has Burles try to visualize the brainwashed female chimp’s attempts at remembering things.

No, I’ll stick to the conclusion of this issue.

Marshall earned points when he started Adventure’s Apes because he was willing to look at the ape society, with the barbarism of the gorillas, and deal with it. This issue undoes all that work he did. In fact, it reaches a point of uselessness I’m not even sure how he’s going to continue the story.

Maybe the problem is a bad editor. Marshall’s plots come and go and there are lots of things without presence from issue to issue. But he resolves the previous issue’s cliffhanger with magic. Worse, he has his characters acting completely against how he’s previously established them.

The series’s plummet seems to be speeding up.