Marvel Apes: The Evolution Starts Here

In 2009, Marvel Comics took a wild detour into a simian-flavored alternate reality with Marvel Apes: The Evolution Starts Here, a one-shot written by Karl Kesel and illustrated by Todd Nauck. This offbeat special reimagines classic Marvel characters as intelligent apes, launching a bizarre corner of the multiverse that would later be explored in a handful of follow-up miniseries. It’s a must-read for fans of unapologetically silly, creator-driven experiments that playfully twist familiar lore.