From Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z
Four out five guys will tell you, nothing but nothing would be cooler than having your very own monkey (the fifth fellow is still trying to decide between a Western and Eastern gorilla).
Alas, until simian ownership is legal, leading to an abused underclass of ape and monkey servants that results in a violent revolution in which superior primates come to dominate feral-like humans, eventually pitting the miltant apes against a small band of mutant people living under the ruins of New York City, followed by two simian scientists travelling back in time to 1971 and having a child who eventually leads his fellow apes to a cataclysmic uprising in which superior primates come to dominate...well, you get the idea...
Anyway, before all that fun is made possible or at least coherent, we can take comfort in knowing that we have Joe and Monkey, a great webcomic by Zach Miller about a delivery boy, Joe, his best friend Monkey and, of course, an evil kleptomaniacal robot named Kleptobot.
Zach has been receiving many a huzzah lately, including a big "thumbs up" from venerable Bloom County creator Berke Breathed. But while Zach is now in talks with the industry greats, he still generously (or mistakenly) asked me to contribute a guest strip for today. He then wisely requested that I submit a replacement strip when the first one was rightly deemed, well, unseemly and unlawful. Of course, given that according to Battle for the Planet of the Apes humans and simians will one day intermingle in a new utopia, perhaps my initial idea wasn't so much "very, very wrong" as "prescient."
Also make sure to hit the "previous" button under the strip to check out the terrific work of other guest cartoonists this week. Then go and enjoy the full Joe and Monkey archive. After all, sooner or later the monkeys will take over and then no human will have access to the Internet. Actually, according to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes it's neither sooner nor later but 1991. Not only that, but the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey was supposed to have ushered in the age of true artificial intelligence on January 12, 1997 (or 1992 in the movie). Plus, according to all the books about the future I read as a child in the early 70's, our skies should now be lousy with hovercrafts, jet-packs, saucer-like buildings on stilts, flying robots--both klepto and not--and a whole host of aeronautically disasterous yet nonetheless amazing inventions and developments.
Man, good thing I've got this whole "guest strip" thing going or I would feel so cheated right now.
Alas, until simian ownership is legal, leading to an abused underclass of ape and monkey servants that results in a violent revolution in which superior primates come to dominate feral-like humans, eventually pitting the miltant apes against a small band of mutant people living under the ruins of New York City, followed by two simian scientists travelling back in time to 1971 and having a child who eventually leads his fellow apes to a cataclysmic uprising in which superior primates come to dominate...well, you get the idea...
Anyway, before all that fun is made possible or at least coherent, we can take comfort in knowing that we have Joe and Monkey, a great webcomic by Zach Miller about a delivery boy, Joe, his best friend Monkey and, of course, an evil kleptomaniacal robot named Kleptobot.
Zach has been receiving many a huzzah lately, including a big "thumbs up" from venerable Bloom County creator Berke Breathed. But while Zach is now in talks with the industry greats, he still generously (or mistakenly) asked me to contribute a guest strip for today. He then wisely requested that I submit a replacement strip when the first one was rightly deemed, well, unseemly and unlawful. Of course, given that according to Battle for the Planet of the Apes humans and simians will one day intermingle in a new utopia, perhaps my initial idea wasn't so much "very, very wrong" as "prescient."
Also make sure to hit the "previous" button under the strip to check out the terrific work of other guest cartoonists this week. Then go and enjoy the full Joe and Monkey archive. After all, sooner or later the monkeys will take over and then no human will have access to the Internet. Actually, according to Conquest of the Planet of the Apes it's neither sooner nor later but 1991. Not only that, but the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey was supposed to have ushered in the age of true artificial intelligence on January 12, 1997 (or 1992 in the movie). Plus, according to all the books about the future I read as a child in the early 70's, our skies should now be lousy with hovercrafts, jet-packs, saucer-like buildings on stilts, flying robots--both klepto and not--and a whole host of aeronautically disasterous yet nonetheless amazing inventions and developments.
Man, good thing I've got this whole "guest strip" thing going or I would feel so cheated right now.
posted by Francesco Marciuliano at 9:43 AM
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2 Comments:
haha, yeah!
*snort*
As someone who once worked in a monkey lab, I can tell you just about anything would be cool than having your own monkey. I might also be able to tell you that making out with a monkey is very risky, but that is probably saying too much.
My main point, though, is that Ces once claimed on this very blog that Kathy Griffin is the alternative to humor. Having watched an episode of P. Diddy's "The Bad Boys of Comedy", I would like to nominate a new champion. The brand of anti-funny that is produced on this show is so pure that if something funny were to happen on it, the energy released by the interaction between funny and anti-funny would be enough to level a city block. Respect the science.
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