Gawd, how many fake chimpanzees are there in the world? Now we have pretenders posing as Chongo from beyond the grave!! And little Hack is streaming scurrilous defamations that most people wouldn't stand for, but says I am a character assassin!!! Unmitigated brazen gall, innit??

I didn't make up Chongo's long string of bloodied corpses, heart-broken dames, and empty gin bottles. Those were made up by Little Hawk, who decided in a fit of whimsy to try to write like Mike Hammer one afternoon when there was nothing good on E-Bay. Instead, he ended up writing like a chimp himself. But, really, I think we have enough artificial simians in these parts to satisfy even his sordid appetites.


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