The Stop Button

So this terrible comic book is about what I was expecting from Adventure’s Apes franchise.

At least the flagship series started well, even if it did eventually go to pot. Blood of the Apes starts in the pot and kind of just stirs around a little.

Because they’re based on an existing franchise, I accept there are a number of constraints to an Apes comic book. But writer Roland Mann’s solution isn’t to be inventive within those restraints, it’s to break them. Here, he breaks that cardinal rule–ape shall not kill ape. His protagonist in Blood is a bounty hunter who loves killing apes. Man-lovers, but still apes.

But this development breaks one of the agreements of the franchise, turning Blood into a lazy knock-off. Actually, it turns it into fan-fic, not a professional, licensed tie-in.

Anyway, crappy writing, crappy art. It’s a terrible time.