DC Comics Goes Ape In April With The Announcement Of An All Ape Justice League

DC Comics is to celebrate it’s rather impressively large gang of gorillas, chimps, apes and all thing simian this coming April with the announcement of a new one-off anthology, Ape-ril Special. The PR is full of pithy (and some downright dreadful) puns, but I’ll spare you that. There’s no monkeying about here. Okay, okay, maybe just that one, okay?

Out on Tuesday March 19th, the 48-page Ape-ril Special one-shot features classic characters like The Flash’s Gorilla Grodd, the Doom Patrol’s nemesis, Monsieur Mallah and Detective Chimp. as well as many, many more. All coming to you from creators including John Layman, Joshua Hale Fialkov and Gene Yang, Karl Mostert, Phil Hester and Bernard Chang.

“Gorilla Grodd’s recent incarcer-ape-tion in the pages of DC’s The Flash comic book series has left a void that Monsieur Mallah is more than happy to fill. Ape-sembling a group of the DCU’s most sinister simians, Mallah forms the Legion of D(oo-oo-ah-ah)m, with an eye toward world domin-ape-tion. But the world won’t be conquered that easily! Enter the all-ape JUNGLE L(ee-ee)gue. Can this team of hero-eek anthropoids be the salv-ape-tion we need, or will Mallah’s team of maniacal monkeys bring forth the ape-pocalypse?”

As well as an ape-mazing (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) line up of creators we also get covers by Dan Mora, Bernard Chang and a “Banana Scent” variant cover by Hayden Sherman.