Comics & Novels
From Marvel: Marvel Comics will be launching its first-ever 20th Century Studios comic book imprint this April! The new imprint will kick off with Planet of the Apes #1, on sale April 5, shortly followed by Marvel’s upcoming Alien and Predator comic book series. Fans will see the 20th Century Studios comic book imprint reflected on […]
Writer and digital artist Alex Teplish has undertaken what is best described as an illustrated Planet of the Apes fan fiction, put together with an impressive array of digital images. As Teplish describes it, “The inhabitants of the Planet of the Apes discover a crashed Soviet space probe, transported through a wormhole, with various Soviet […]
Back in June Marvel announced that it had reacquired the license to Planet of the Apes. Now the comics company has heralded an April 2023 first publication, with the creative team of writer David F. Walker and artist Dave Wachter. Walker has written such titles as Shaft, Power Man and Iron Fist, Secret Wars: Battleworld, and the Apes-related projects Tarzan on […]
Earlier in the year Marvel Comics announced that they would be publishing Planet of the Apes comics, which wasn’t really surprising considering Disney owns both POTA and Marvel. While the initial announcement covered reprints of classic stories from the 1970s, Marvel is having some fun with the property by issuing a series of variant covers […]
Media Geek & Friends is a comic strip that has appeared online sporadically. Last year I had the idea of introducing an element called the Glass Onion (special thanks to The Beatles), which allows the character of Michael Greco (aka Media Geek) cross dimensions, even from reality into fictional worlds. Other characters are MG’s girlfriend, […]
Red flags. Even before the meaning of that phrase was clear to me, my 12-year-old self felt their rising presence back in 1972, as I sat in the Kings Plaza Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, watching Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. Marketing-wise, 20th Century Fox had certainly done its job. It began with […]
For those who are looking for even more Planet of the Apes, look no further than this anthology of short stories set in that universe. Published by Titan Books, Tales From the Forbidden Zone is officially described as follows: “Sixteen brand-new adventures set in the world of the original Planet of the Apes. The 1968 Planet of the Apes has inspired […]