The Stop Button

I’m a little taken aback by Folly. The first issue was shockingly good for a licensed property, but this one is even better.

Chaloner uses the franchise to tell this fantastic story of mismatched characters. The Apes setting is both a constraint and a device to bring the elements together.

This issue reveals, like everyone at Adventure, Chaloner plays fast and loose with continuity. Only here, who cares? It’s such a good comic, it’s too bad it’s tied to the rest of the Apes. It really ought to be collected.

Chaloner has set up this miserable expedition, with all sorts of infighting and machinations. The human protagonist is somewhat passive here, though his backstory seems incredible–it’s the one place where Chaloner might have set the bar too high.

He–and the reader–watches everything collide and explode. It’s great writing and excellent art.

Chaloner does fantastic work. Unbelievably good.