The story concerns Anna trying to find out how she was conceived, along with having to deal with religious nutts, her crazy alter ego and a monkey who'se oral report to God may doom mankind. She fares quite well, given the circumstances, which include her mother still being a horrible, horrible person. Just recently done having sex with an old Monkey Cult priest, she finds that after being gone without a word for like over a week her husband is having sex with another woman, who is actually Anna's roommate. This upsets her for some reasons as I suppose fucking an old man because you were told to is somehow not cheating, apparently.
Anna manages to seemingly patch things up in her life as much as she can, and the Monkey's report seems favourable....until we get to issue 8.
Here, we find reality is suddenly unravelling and people and whole countries are being erased from history. Including Canada. And Anna's boyfriend Tom. Who is incidentally the saddest character I've seen in years. Dude nearly gets castrated while being abducted by a crazy psychopath, slandered in the media by his mental cousin Shannon who wants him to date her so badly she takes everyone in the store she works at hostage, and Anna (or The Minx) promising him an ideal date only to stand him up and fly to London. All to finally be able to do it with Anna. And almost as soon as he does, the man is erased from history. Tom Jones (not the other one), you are the new Yamcha.
Anna then realises that not only is Bob, the senator Tom worked for her father and McAnguish is her grandfather but....apparently her father was born from a giant alien vagina McAnguish found in a desert once and then in the midst of researching it decided to stick his dick into case why not.
Naturally this throws Anna quite hard so they fly to try and find the Monkey, who'se went to live with the Bonobos in the jungle, hoping he might have some answers. However, Anna only finds his dead body. So, as she was retroactively revirgined by having her only sexual partner wiped from history, she decides to jump the bones of her big, muscular black guide.
Afterwards, things look, well....
Not good. So McAnguish takes Bob, Anna, her parents (well her mother and non biological father as well as Ben so.....yeah, kinda needed to elaborate there) and Ngongo, the black guide Anna screwed in the jungle, to the institute and has them jump into the giant Monster Vag Bob was born from, hoping it will allow them to survive in some way now the world's being erased.
The end.
I did like The Monkey Quarter, and the final issue has a really nice surreal atmoshpere to it, but you sort of expect there to be more to the story, and the ending does feel like a bit of a copout. In fact the final issue comes way too soon after the end of the Monkey God storyline and sort of nullifies the ending of that story, and of course there's the fact I just feel really, really bad for what Milligan did to Tom, who couldn't even get the decency of being dead and having had existed by the end of the story. Of course I can guess why issue 8 happened, and why it ended as it did. It seems the Minx failed spectacularily and so they ended it before even reaching issue 12. It's apparent in how the Minx does not even have any part in the series finale, despite being the "mysterious entity" the series was named after.
It's a pitty since it was really well written and it could have been a good, psychedelic little series about the Supernatural. It still holds up but the ending will leave you wanting more.
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