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Post by brutalis on Jun 23, 2016 8:02:10 GMT -5
At the Phoenix comic-con the Edgar Rice Burroughs panel i attended stated there is a Tarzan and Planet of the Apes comic coming soon. Premise being Tarzan is the adopted brother to Caesar and when Caesar is kidnapped Tarzan goes to rescue him....
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Post by shaxper on Jun 23, 2016 8:37:39 GMT -5
At the Phoenix comic-con the Edgar Rice Burroughs panel i attended stated there is a Tarzan and Planet of the Apes comic coming soon. Premise being Tarzan is the adopted brother to Caesar and when Caesar is kidnapped Tarzan goes to rescue him.... I'd heard about (and pre-ordered) the title, but I did not know the premise. Sounds like a terrible idea, but the completist in me will still ensure that I read and review it  Thanks much for this information! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 23, 2016 16:58:26 GMT -5
At the Phoenix comic-con the Edgar Rice Burroughs panel i attended stated there is a Tarzan and Planet of the Apes comic coming soon. Premise being Tarzan is the adopted brother to Caesar and when Caesar is kidnapped Tarzan goes to rescue him.... I'd heard about (and pre-ordered) the title, but I did not know the premise. Sounds like a terrible idea, but the completist in me will still ensure that I read and review it Thanks much for this information! I'm glad that atleast the art looks better this time around but yeah the premise isn't promising. |
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Post by rom on Sept 12, 2016 12:32:18 GMT -5
Amazing thread. I've been a big POTA movie & comic/magazine fan since the early '80's.
Re: the POTA b&w magazine, I remember seeing a lot of these '70's back issues at a local comic store circa 1982. I bought a pile of them, and really enjoyed the artwork/storylines of both the film adaptations & the original stories. The ones with excellent Mike Ploog artwork especially stood out.
And, in the cases of the Escape - Conquest film adaptations, I actually preferred Marvel's versions over the film's themselves!
In recent years, I've collected some of the BOOM! POTA series that came out from 2011-on. Those were fairly good, and the early issues of the regular POTA series (set in the original film universe) had amazing artwork.
I'm also a huge fan of the new films, Rise of the POTA & Dawn of the POTA (I like these better than the originals). And, I wish BOOM! had done more comic series in the "universe" of these new films; they did one series, though I haven't gotten around to reading this yet (I own the Trade).
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Post by shaxper on Oct 12, 2016 20:23:58 GMT -5
Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes #1 (Boom! and Dark Horse)  writers: Tim Seeley and David Walker art: Fernando Dagnino colors: Sandra Molina letters: Nate Piekos editor: Scott Allie grade: A I have to agree with thwhtguardian when he writes that: As a rule I'm not a big fan of these types of crossovers as they tend to be more miss than hit with me and feel as if they are just quickly thrown together without much care to take advantage of the popularity of the properties involved. However, every rule has its exceptions and this book by Tim Seeley and David Walker is just such a one. While it seems like Boom! will slap a sticker of approval on pretty much any crossover idea for POTA that they are approached with right now, this piece is nothing like the embarrassing spectacle that Star Trek / Planet of the Apes: The Prime Directive proved to be. Instead of throwing two properties together so that characters could reel off familiar one-liners and practically pose for the panels, this one finds a truly intelligent, substantial, and worthwhile means of combining two properties together. Clearly, this review is concerned more with the Planet of the Apes aspect of the property, though the treatment of the Tarzan property is every bit as intelligent and respectful. So Seeley and Walker take on the familiar task, attempted by so many comic writers over the years, to better bridge the gap between the second film (Beneath the Planet of the Apes) and the series that followed. Thus, this story continues right after the destruction of the Earth in Beneath, except that the world Zira, Cornelius, and Dr. Milo are transported to is a little different than what we saw in Escape from the Planet of the Apes:  But don't worry -- Seeley and Walker seem to be leaving themselves an out with which to make all of this reconcile with the later films as well:  Maybe the third through fifth films did happen, but the very time travel aspect of the series has provoked some sort of multi-verse of parallel time-streams, and this is a different one. At least that's where the series appears to be headed. Obviously, while the premise appears to be highly thoughtful of, and respectful to, Apes film continuity, it can't do much to acknowledge past Apes comics beyond Boom's own two continuities which are both three years out of print by this point (thus, the common reader would be unlikely to get or appreciate the references). It's possible the brotherhood between Tarzan and young Milo is intended to parallel that of Jason and Alex in the original comic volume:  (a human and ape growing up together in an ape-dominated society, the human impulsive and quick to anger) but there's no indication Seeley and Walker are going for this. Too bad, as that was a fine volume cut too short that I'd love to see continued, or at least referenced, in a modern comic. Marvel recently worked out the rights to Master of Kung Fu with whoever owns the rights to Fu Manchu; I wish there was enough fan demand for them to do the same for Terror on the Planet of the Apes. But I digress. It remains to be seen if this series can continue to deliver on the level that this first issue promises, but it's everything one could ask for thus far. Plot synopsis: An ape militia has uncovered a hive of humans and are about to execute them when Tarzan shows up as their defender, taking the apes down. We then flashback to Tarzan growing up among apes in a society rules by Zira (following the ending of the second POTA film), Kerchek resentful both of Tarzan's presence and Zira and Cornelius' rule. Tarzan and Milo discover the presence of dinosaurs and witness a hole in the sky, Zira is worried that the world is going end like it did in Beneath, Clayton and the gang from Tarzan show up, Cornelius dies trying to stop them, and they manage to abduct young Tarzan. We return to the present to discover that ape Militia doing the same to a grown Tarzan in an alternate(?) 2016. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 12, 2016 20:44:53 GMT -5
Nice, I'm glad you enjoyed it as well. I'm even more glad that you found a scan of that summary of how they escaped the destruction of their world, I love how succinctly it puts the premise and the art is beautiful.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 12, 2016 20:47:19 GMT -5
I'm even more glad that you found a scan of that summary of how they escaped the destruction of their world, It's amazing what you can do with a cheap digital camera and Google Picasa |
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Post by coinilius on Oct 14, 2016 5:27:59 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Oct 14, 2016 6:48:10 GMT -5
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Post by brutalis on Oct 14, 2016 7:14:11 GMT -5
Just think if it was old Green Lantern continuity: the Lantern Corp's defeated by a planet of monkeys throwing yellow banana's at them!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 14, 2016 8:09:35 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this could possibly be good.. unless you're going the route of tying PotA to DC's Gorilla City, and even then in the end it would probably just be a generic DC story with Grodd as the bad guy. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 14, 2016 14:14:21 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this could possibly be good.. unless you're going the route of tying PotA to DC's Gorilla City, and even then in the end it would probably just be a generic DC story with Grodd as the bad guy. The current series is trying really hard to open doorways for other crossovers to follow. While it makes no overt mention of this, it absolutely can continue from Star Trek / Planet of the Apes, and the multiple realities concept allows for any number of cross-overs. If anyone at Boom! cares enough, the current writers are laying down a template that could make each one of these absurd crossovers entirely legitimate and tasteful. That being said, this is Boom! we're talking about. |
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Post by coinilius on Oct 14, 2016 22:48:12 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this could possibly be good.. unless you're going the route of tying PotA to DC's Gorilla City, and even then in the end it would probably just be a generic DC story with Grodd as the bad guy. I like to think that, given a creative team that had something interesting to say with the material, then almost anything could be good... I don't have much faith in this particular crossover, but there are angles of attack that could be made to work - the gorilla city angle, Grodd on the Planet of the Apes... But yeah, it really seems like they are using a roulette wheel or something to choose these crossovers... |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 15, 2016 7:25:25 GMT -5
I'm not sure how this could possibly be good.. unless you're going the route of tying PotA to DC's Gorilla City, and even then in the end it would probably just be a generic DC story with Grodd as the bad guy. I like to think that, given a creative team that had something interesting to say with the material, then almost anything could be good... I don't have much faith in this particular crossover, but there are angles of attack that could be made to work - the gorilla city angle, Grodd on the Planet of the Apes... But yeah, it really seems like they are using a roulette wheel or something to choose these crossovers... The fact that the event was announced without a creative team assigned would suggest the only driving force was money. Our best hope is that some creative team who sees potential in the idea is begging to be assigned to the project as we speak. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 31, 2016 16:41:58 GMT -5
I like to think that, given a creative team that had something interesting to say with the material, then almost anything could be good... I don't have much faith in this particular crossover, but there are angles of attack that could be made to work - the gorilla city angle, Grodd on the Planet of the Apes... But yeah, it really seems like they are using a roulette wheel or something to choose these crossovers... The fact that the event was announced without a creative team assigned would suggest the only driving force was money. Our best hope is that some creative team who sees potential in the idea is begging to be assigned to the project as we speak. I was really hoping the Tarzan cross over would be a signal for better stories but it seems cash is still king over quality. I wish Dark Horse would pick up PotA. |
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