Ape, Not Monkey
Ape, Not Monkey is a webcomic by Jeffrey Watson that has been running from July 2008. The three main characters of the strip are Toby, a skeptical atheist ape; Pastor Bear, a fundamentalist and creationist Christian bear; and Wilbur, a dog who swears by alternative medicine and is an environmentalist.
Later, more characters are added: H.R., a confidence trickster who is a mongoose; Thomas, a religious moderate tortoise; Arlen, a pika who is also a paranoid Conspiracy Theorist; Piggy McCarthy, a pig who believes vaccines are dangerous; Clemens, a Hollywood Atheist who treats "every religious claim as a scientific one", and Dee-Quack Chopra, a duck Captain Ersatz of Deepak Chopra.
The strip doesn't pull punches when criticising people's beliefs and is written from a clearly atheist and skeptical perspective.
- Captain Ersatz:
- Word of God in this interview says Dee-Quack Chopra is one of Deepak Chopra and Arlen is one of Alex Jones.
- Glenn Bear, a side character in a few strips, is one of Glenn Beck.
- Deadpan Snarker: Toby. in strip two.
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Pastor Bear: "...Now if you excuse me, I'm going to Church." |
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- Cloudcuckoolander: The strip runs on this. Examples are everything Arlen thinks about the world, Pastor Bear trying to make his own gasoline, and numerous side characters' beliefs.
- Con Man: H.R.
- The Fundamentalist: Pastor Bear, who also preaches of Fire and Brimstone Hell.
- Hitler Ate Sugar: In this strip.
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Pastor Bear: "You know who also liked evolution?" |
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- Hollywood Atheist: Clemens
- Lethal Chef: Pastor Bear in the third strip.
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Toby: "And there's a shoe in it!" |
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- Un Entendre: in this strip:
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Pastor Bear: "God has planted the seeds of success inside you." |
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- Unexplained Recovery: A man who was clinically dead for 45 minutes, mentioned in the very first strip.