The Stop Button

I guess since Marvel started their Planet of the Apes magazine after the final movie, they didn’t worry about mixing up the magazine. For example, this issue starts with a story by Doug Moench and Mike Ploog (Gerry Conway gets story credit) set after the final movie… in the new Apes timeline. But the second half of the magazine is an adaptation of the first movie by Moench and George Tuska, with Mike Esposito inking. It’s set before the new timeline.

Or I’ve completely wrong.

Moench’s got a human protagonist in his original story (with a chimp buddy). He gets in some analogies to the KKK and human racism; it works okay. Ploog’s art is great. Moench has strong dialogue here.

But he also has it in the adaptation, which he makes into a simple story of bickering astronauts. He does it well. Tuska’s better on scenery than people though.

CREDITS

Terror On the Planet of the Apes; writers, Gerry Conway and Doug Moench; artist, Mike Ploog. Planet of the Apes, Part One; writer, Moench; penciller, George Tuska; inker, Mike Esposito. Editor, Tony Isabella; publisher, Marvel Comics.