“The fate of the universe is on the Gibbon’s shoulders. God help us.”

“There are a lot of great jokes you can make, and you don’t want to miss those. At the same time, if all it is is a cocktail party joke, there’s not really a lot of reason to keep reading it. You’re going to get the joke in the first issue and, if there’s not a real story there, there’s no reason to come back. So we do both- serious and silly- and I like to think we do both pretty well. There’s something at stake in the story- a real life-and-death situation- and there are some characters you’ll really care about. Me, I really like the Gibbon. He narrates the story and always, always hopes things will go his way, but fully expects that they won’t- face it, that’s how his life’s always been.”
Karl Kesel interviewed about Marvel Apes at Westfield Comics.