Planet Of The Apes: Fall Of Man review

aka La Planète des Singes: La fin des Hommes

Collecting Planet of The Apes (2023) #1-5.

Planet Of The Apes #5 finishes with the following epitaph: "This is the end for now..."

And I say: Good! A repetitive, repetitive, nasty, boring comic book that went nowhere finally comes to its merciful end.

The disappointing Planet Of The Apes comic from The House of Ideas featured 2 tales: a much too coordinated Militia murdering apes AND the story of a Gorilla soldier leading his guerrilla comrades.

What I did NOT like:

NO James Franco!

NO Dr. Zaius!

Disrespecting the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France.

A pandemic thriller with no thrills that fixates on fanaticism and hate.

Mainstream heavy metal bands referenced too many times.

The frequent time hopping.

Trained soldiers unaware that apes can communicate via sign language.

Incompetent people in power.

Executions without due process of law.

A multitude of simians with toilet seats around their necks.

No letters page! Lazy editors can't be bothered.

What I did like:

Exposing misinformation.

Naming the circus after Arthur P. Jacobs.

Gorilla Pug speaking French is a nice nod to the original source novel by Pierre Boulle.

Beautiful attention grabbing covers by Joshua Cassara, including one that could be homaging The Bridge on the River Kwai, also by Boulle.

A cover by Yanick Paquette.

I give it a 2/10. I really wanted to go ape, but it did not happen.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - The Scorpius Run #1 review

The Enterprise picks up a distress call and moves to investigate. Onboard they find one survivor who tells them she has a debt to pay to a local crime boss. Later, the Enterprise arrives at Celius Prime in an effort to help their passenger. Pike and some of the bridge crew are beamed off. They face the crime boss who tells them the only way out of the dangerous Scorpion sector is by way of the most dangerous race in the galaxy. Pike agrees to the race but members of this crew are placed among various other ships in the race. The idea of a race in space is nothing new. It's not even new in the realms of Star Trek. You have 'The Great Starship Race' from the old Pocket Book line. And thus far, I feel the novel is superior. Though the Pike of Strange New Worlds is laid back I hardly think he would so easily agree to all the terms and obviously laid traps he faces here. six out of ten.

Void Rivals #2 review

What’s this then? Why, it’s Void Rivals # 2, the second issue (shocking, I know) of Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, and Matheus Lopes’ new sci-fi comic. It tells the tale of two crumbling planets linked by a “Sacred Ring” (it’s not Halo), their peoples at war for generations. When a member of each culture are stranded together, the two find they must put aside their differences if they want to survive. This story takes place in the so-called “Energon Universe”, Skybound Entertainment’s new initiative to relaunch properties like Transformers and G.I. Joe within a shared universe that also happens to include the original characters and setting of Void Rivals. Any good? You know what, yeah! I’m enjoying it so far and I guess I’m not surprised. Robert Kirkman does well with cosmic space stuff and I was a big fan of Invincible. In two issues he’s already crafted an intriguing dramatic setup and a compelling dynamic between our two lead characters Darak and Solila. We’ve seen the “enemies

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