The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of TARZAN ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #1 from Dark Horse Comics and BOOM! Studios. Tim
Seeley and David Walker write, Fernando Dagnino draws, Sandra Molina colors,
and Nate Piekos of Blambot letters.
A group of apes escaped the doomsday weapon in astronaut
Taylor’s ship, but were thrown through some sort of portal into the past. They
settled in the jungle and soon discovered a small human boy named Tarzan. Also,
fast forward to modern times, where fully grown Tarzan battles against his ape
brethren for the sake of the humans. He fights well, but is greatly outnumbered
and is eventually captured by the ape general.
Crossovers are growing in popularity these days, and this is
one that makes sense in several ways. Tarzan’s choice between his lives, ape
and human, is made quite a bit more complicated here, where it’s unclear who is
the “good guys.” The story is necessarily complex (as time travel stories often
are) but never confusing, and the art is really quite beautiful, with detailed
jungle backgrounds and masterful fight scenes.
There are plenty of familiar names to fans of both
properties, and a story that brings it all together. This is definitely one to
check out.
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
