Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #102

By: Dale Rawlings

Dale Rawlings — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:53:42 +0000

What about Axis Ape from Buzzboy? How can you go wrong with a Nazi ape. And that is just a damned cool name for a character.

By: The Cosh

The Cosh — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:15:45 +0000

ANdrew Collins: Damn, how nice would the Congorilla mini have been if Brian Bolland had done more than just the coversâ€¦?

There’s more than one series you can say that about.

By: Lucion

Lucion — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:57:03 +0000

The idea of Congo Bill incapacitating himself so he doesn’t run rampant when switching minds with the ape is one of the greatest ideas I’ve read in quite some time.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:30:46 +0000

Damn, how nice would the Congorilla mini have been if Brian Bolland had done more than just the covers…?

By: John

John — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:17:14 +0000

Damn, I read “the man who would be King Kong” and thought for sure you’d be doing Titano.

Have you done the Ultra-Humanite yet?

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:33:33 +0000

M Bloom: that was Justice League of America #144, and one of the best comics *ever*!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:14:13 +0000

Dmitri 9 and The Weeping Gorilla. Especially the Weeping Gorilla.

By: MAF

MAF — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:49:57 +0000

Great fun, and another vote for Solomon from Tom Strong, a recent invention who has outstripped my affection for the Red Ghost’s Super Apes and Monsieur Mallah…

By: Ryan H

Ryan H — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:10:30 +0000

The Ape-ril thing was fun for a while, and each entry is still fun on it’s own, but I can’t help thinking that there are so, so many reasons to love comics that using almost 10% of the days just for apes is going to sell other stuff short.

By: veghead

veghead — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:41:02 +0000

So far I am enjoying your ape feature. I have noticed, however, that you are only focusing on the great apes and I am curious: will you be including any lesser apes this month sir?

I am also wondering if you’ll be including any humans this month as they are, in fact, apes.

Thank you for your time.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:40:17 +0000

Alan Moore’s famed “Twilight” crossover pitch depicted a bleak future in which Congo Bill, now permanently Congorilla, became a new Gorilla Boss of Gotham City.

Damn, how cool would that have been?

By: M Bloom

M Bloom — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 03:14:57 +0000

Only time I’ve ever seen Congo Bill was in an old issue of Justice League of America. It was the one where Green Arrow found out about a pre-JLA mission that brought together a bunch of heroes to fight some white Martians. Aside from the future Leaguers, a bunch of other early Silver Age heroes showed up to help out. Congo Bill was there alongside the Blackhawks, Plastic Man, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, and a few others. I think Englehart wrote that issue, and of course Dick Dillin did the art.

By: Billy F

Billy F — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:07:35 +0000

I seem to remember Congo Bill being mentioned recently in one of the DC titles. Dang it, I can’t remember which one.

And for some reason my mind keeps telling me it was written by Mark Waid, but I know that’s not true. Anyone have this answer?