Published in 2018 by BOOM! Studios.
When I was a kid the local independent TV station used to show movies on the weekends. They showed lots and lots of different movies, but they had a few movies that they showed on what must have been a regular schedule. One of those was the Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western franchise that began with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Another was the Planet of the Apes movie franchise.
I liked the Clint Eastwood movies, but 8 year old me was enthralled at the sight of the gorilla militia soldiers on horseback with the assault rifles. They blew my mind! And the Statue of Liberty ending! Wow! Cool gorillas and a blow your mind ending! Plus, Zira and Cornelius were so smart and so funny! I was hooked!
It didn't bother me that the rest of the series failed to live up to the first movie - I watched them all whenever I could.
This graphic novel follows the original script that Rod Serling wrote for the Planet of the Apes movie. The original plot to the first Planet of the Apes movie was much more like the book (but it was the still has the Statue of Liberty at the end.) They had to change the movie quite a bit due to budgetary restrictions. This was a pre-CGI world - if you wanted a modern city full of apes, you would have to make all of those expensive costumes for all of those paid actors. This was simply not going to happen in the budget for some wild science fiction movie with monkey outfits.
If you like the first and third movies in the original movie series, you will enjoy this graphic novel. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
I rate this graphic novel 5 stars out of 5. It can be found on Amazon.com here: PLANET of the APES: VISIONARIES.
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