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Edginton continues on the story established by the Tim Burton PotA. This takes place a generation after the events of the film. It does a good job with continuing the storyline.
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Planet of the Apes (Dark Horse Comics) (Collected editions) #1
Planet of the Apes: The Human War
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After learning that Shiva is General Thade's half-caste granddaughter and that she is traveling to Calima to find a power capable of destroying humanity, Seneca and a small band of renegade apes and humans set out to stop her.
72 pages, Paperback
First published July 31,2001
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72 pages, Paperback
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July 10, 2001 by Dark Horse
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9781569715840
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156971584X
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English
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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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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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Didn't like the art and the story itself was bland.
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I bought a bunch of $1 comix at a local comic store (Paradox) last Saturday, three of which were the 3 issue run of this series. The story was okay, not anything too ambitious or too spectacular for that matter, if you are the least bit familiar w/the Apes franchise, you will be very familiar w/the goings-on (and even if you're a newby - it ain't too complex). The art is great, cartooney and action-oriented and well drawn by Paco Medina in the first 2 issues and Adrian Sibar in the last issue. Tbh, I watched the movie when it came out and although I thought it okay enough, well-made and all that, still thought it to be a let-down from the original movies from the 60's-70's. I didn't realize that Dark Horse put out comix at the time - I wasn't buying too many comix in those days and if I had of noticed it probably didn't give it too much notice. Anyway, finding these in the dollar bin was a no-brainer, they have provided some early Saturday morning entertainment. Okay stuff.
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3.5 Stars.
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A fairly mediocre graphic novel, Planet of the Apes: The Human War attempts to continue Tim Burton’s new vision for the series. The story follows Thade’s granddaughter Shiva as she tries to quell a Human/Ape insurrection, and secretly plots to return to Calima in search of a weapon of ultimate power. Author Ian Edginton’s writing is rather weak and does a poor job at making connections to the film. The plot is thin and the characters are underdeveloped; yet the action is well-done and there’s some intrigue to the mystery of Calima and Shiva’s nefarious plans. However, Paco Medina’s artwork is subpar and lacks the dark tone that the film had. Planet of the Apes: The Human War is a disappointing movie tie-in comic that doesn’t really add anything and is only mildly entertaining.
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This was...fine. I don't know what was going on at Dark Horse with the Planet of the Apes license at the time, but this is a perfectly readable, pretty short story set a couple generations after the events of the crappy Tim Burton remake. Humans and a splinter group of apes are rebelling against the apes in power. Standard story beats for this kind of story follow. The art is more exaggerated and cartoony than I like. The characters are broad architypes. Whatever.
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Two generations after the end of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes a civil war rages between the traditionalist apes and an ape/human coalition bent on overthrowing the status quo. The anti-human Senator Shiva then enacts a plan to seize an ancient forbidden technology in order to turn the tide of the war against those who seek human emancipation.
The Tim Burton ...Apes film was terrible and it's odd that it garnered an offshoot comic book franchise, but here we are.
The premise of this book is actually fairly good, revealing what the titular planet would look like after the events of the movie, in which the fundaments of ape society were called into question and which showed that humans were more than just a slave people.
Beyond taking the ending of the movie further (and I'm not counting the stupid twist ending), there's nothing here that really stands out. It's not a bad story, just nothing that breaks any new ground or offers any surprises.
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The Tim Burton ...Apes film was terrible and it's odd that it garnered an offshoot comic book franchise, but here we are.
The premise of this book is actually fairly good, revealing what the titular planet would look like after the events of the movie, in which the fundaments of ape society were called into question and which showed that humans were more than just a slave people.
Beyond taking the ending of the movie further (and I'm not counting the stupid twist ending), there's nothing here that really stands out. It's not a bad story, just nothing that breaks any new ground or offers any surprises.
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