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.

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.

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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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.