The Stop Button

Yeah, Marshall’s definitely plummeting, if not plummeted.

It’s little things, like the female chimp narrating again. If he’s not doing it for style, he’s doing it for exposition, but he’s got too many characters to do expository flashbacks for every one of them… and he doesn’t. Just the female. And the narration is really bad.

Then there’s her (now missing) companion, who goes on this wacky adventure. Only, it seems like he’s hallucinating the whole thing. But Burles’s artwork is so bad, it’s impossible to tell. The bad artwork really stings now, because there’s not even a decent story—and it’s making the comic on a whole incomprehensible for the first time. It used to just be incomprehensible scenes.

Marshall’s big problem is how he’s developing the plot. Absolute power corrupts absolutely… big yawn.

And the cliffhanger, though it suggests new life for Apes, seems like a capitulation to expectations.