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.

Didn't like the art and the story itself was bland.

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.

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.

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.

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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