Editor's note: Too bad. That would have been very cool. Mind you, a world in which there are talking, cigar-smoking, humanized apes and monkeys all over the place as well as wild ones out in the bush would have put a young Diane Fossey or Jane Goodall in a rather different position in some respects, but I suspect their basic strong affection for primates still would have shown itself.

Chongo is a big fan of both of them. In fact this may partly account for his secret yen for the human female...or not. Hard to say. Naw...it's probably just those long, long legs...or the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" syndrome.

Don't be in a rush on this story, guys...we've got all the time in the world to write it. Now where's Rapaire? We need some more atomic trivia...I wonder what that slippery scoundrel Otto is up to? Hmmm....

- LH