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Planet of the Apes (Dark Horse Comics) (Collected editions) #2

Planet of the Apes, Volume 1: Old Gods

ian edginton adrián sibar paco medina

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The human rebel Esau and the ape leader Seneca are facing a trial for crimes against the ape state, but just seconds from certain death, they are rescued by the once great gorilla warrior, Attar. A Graphic Novel. Original.

80 pages, Paperback

First published February 15,2002
Series
Planet of the Apes (Dark Horse Comics) (Collected editions)

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Format
80 pages, Paperback
Published
February 15, 2002 by Dark Horse Books
ISBN
9781569716687
ASIN
1569716684
Language
English

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ian edginton

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Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.

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Amibo115
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April 26,2025
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From Dark Horse Comics comes Planet of the Apes: Old Gods, which takes the 2001 reboot series in a new direction. When former general Attar receives a letter from Ari he breaks out of his prison, rescues the rebel leaders Seneca and Esau from execution, and enlists their aid in helping him save a remote ape village from a savage warrior race called the Chimerae. It’s a rather trite and cliché plot that throws out the Ape/Human revolution storyline from the previous mini-series in favor of a wandering outlaw story. And the artwork is awful; it’s extremely crude and has no consistency. Incredibly disappointing, Planet of the Apes: Old Gods is a poorly made comic with no ambition.
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zxus
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April 26,2025
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Similar to the previous one I read (Human War, I think it was called). It's interesting that this takes place on the same world as the Tim Burton film, but many years later. I'm glad, I guess, that it didn't follow the human pilot from that film back to Earth and deal with the silliness the ending of the film left us with. There are some things in this that are...questionable. The personality of what seems to be the only human woman. The implied morality of the ancient myth that's told. I don't know. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it's odd.
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drivedonniedrive
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April 26,2025
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Picking up many years after the events of 'The Human War', the insurrectionists trying to create an equal society for humans and apes are all but defeated. The surviving leaders, Seneca and Esau, then join retired General Attar on a mission into forbidden territory where they face a mysterious new race of apes.

I liked the idea that the revolution, begun amid the events of the Planet of the Apes movie (the terrible Tim Burton one), has actually stalled after decades of struggle. I gives a realism and believability to a story which, containing talking gorillas, may have otherwise struggled for it.

The problem is that this book, being very short, does nothing to explore the ideas it introduces. The failed revolution is very quickly swept under the rug so the three protagonists can set off on their quest, the purpose of which is still mostly unclear to me even now I've finished the book. We're then introduced to a race of apes whose culture is significantly different to the chimp/gorilla/orang one we've seen previously and the writer proceeds to do absolutely nothing of significance with this new concept.
And then the book's over, without any real resolution.

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Melonada
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April 26,2025
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This is the second volume of Edginton's continuation on the story established by the Tim Burton PotA. It is set a generation after the events of the film; the events are a follow-up to The Human War. It does a good job with continuing the storyline of Burton's PotA.
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