What's the deal with Monkeys and Supers?

[Puuka]

Was looking through Pulp City and SuperSystems figs, and there are a lot of Simians. Even Clix has their share.

What is it about comics and monkeys that seems to go together?

[matakishi]

Originally it was sales. Comicbooks with a gorilla on the cover used to sell double what a normal issue in a title would, a gorilla in the hero's costume would sell even more.
Now it's more of a tradition that I'm glad to see Pulp City is maintaining

[leonmallett]

Funnily enough, by far the most read character/Supreme/individual model blog post on Pulp Citizen is Chimp Chi, underlining the popularity issue. That post has more than 3 times the hits of any other specific charcter post - ninjas and monkeys for the win.

[Puuka]

Funnily enough, by far the most read character/Supreme/individual model blog post on Pulp Citizen is Chimp Chi, underlining the popularity issue. That post has more than 3 times the hits of any other specific charcter post - ninjas and monkeys for the win.

Not surprised. Monkies are cool. King Fu monkies are even cooler.

[fairoaks024]

guns/monkeys/ninjas

the perfect triple

regards

jim

[Hat Guy]

Maybe I'm too much of a child of the Iron Age of comics, but I've never really got the whole talking ape thing.

[Puuka]

Just went through the inventory for Clix.

there are 25 figures that are simian related.

Gorilla-Man x2
Devil Dinosaur and Moon Boy (Moon Boy early homanid)
Super Apes: Igor
Super Apes: Mikhlo
Super Apes: Peoter
Gorilla City Warrior
Solovar
Detective Chimp x2
Grodd x6
Gleek
Ultra-Humanite x2
Monsieur Mallah x2
Congorilla
Beast Boy (Has one sculpt that is morphing to a gorrila)

Could also include Giganta. In one version, she is a Gorrila transformed to a human that can grow big.

[goon3423]

My own theory is as follows..*ahem*... Everything, and I mean everything, can be improved with monkeys and/or zombies. Think it over, even the classics. Everyone from Ulysses to Rhett Butler to Phillip Marlowe would have done nothing but benefit from having a cigar smoking simian side-kick. Just a theory.

[Scorpio]

I concur. Most minis games would be improved by monkeys. Napoleonic, Civil War, the Spartans at Thermopylae, etc. But it's only in pulp and superheroic games that we have the freedom to go with what nature intended.

[Puuka]

I concur. Most minis games would be improved by monkeys. Napoleonic, Civil War, the Spartans at Thermopylae, etc. But it's only in pulp and superheroic games that we have the freedom to go with what nature intended.

I think AT-43 shows that Sci-Fi works too

[leonmallett]

I think AT-43 shows that Sci-Fi works too

Unfortunately AT-43 also showed that Rakham just cannot make very cool sculpts translate into a viable business model. :|


Back on topic - I should have super-simian to add to my Pulp City thread in a couple of days, and I am quietly chuffed with how it turned out.

[Scorpio]

Unfortunately AT-43 also showed that Rakham just cannot make very cool sculpts translate into a viable business model. :|

Yet the AT-43 experiment has become a great source of Minions for Pulp City.