The Stop Button

Marshall changes things up for this issue, eschewing an actual story and treating it as a combination of a preview for other Adventure Apes comics and a joke. He constantly breaks the fourth wall in narration, talking directly to the reader, and most of the issue is annoying and trite.

But it has good art. The addition of Wyman and Pallot has fundamentally changed Planet of the Apes and now the artists making up for the writer, instead of the inverse.

The comic has three stories. One involves the moronic comic relief gorillas Marshall seemed to think are a great idea.

Then there are tie-ins to the Ape City series and to the Ape Nation series.

The tie-ins are better than the regular one.

But Marshall does come up with a funny–and simultaneously forced and unexpected– punchline.

Primarily, the art, and tie-ins, make the issue tolerable.