Mr. Comics is humbled, pleased, thrilled, and tickled to announce that our first issue of Revolution on the Planet of the Apes was nominated for a Shuster Award for best written comic issue of 2005.

(forgive my luddite inability to create hypertext, but the website is www.shusterawards.com )

We have to publicly tip our hats to Joe O'Brien for the terrific script he wrote. Frankly we're not too surprised someone wanted to pin a ribbon on it. We wanted to when it first came in.

The lovely art by Salgood Sam and Bernie Mireault was our little way of pinning a ribbon on our story before anyone else got to read it. And the equally nominated back up story by Attila and that Templeton fellow seems to have been worth a read as well.

We couldn't be prouder of the recognition that our little corner of the comic's rack is getting, and I promise, it only makes us try harder.

Speaking of trying harder, it's time to start.

We need to form a gorilla militia. A legion of Apes fans who need to go forth and pester their local retailers for the comic. Demand to know why they're keeping it from you. Bring monkeys if you have to, but no violence unless the monkey starts it. Grass roots and word of mouth is powerful, and we're asking for that grunting cohort to come to bear. We're doing what we can to get the word out, but we are merely a handful of simians when we need an army.

2005 got off to a very good start. Let's see if we can't destroy all of man's world by the end of 2006.

Ty the Guy, Mr. Comics' own personal lawgiver.