Moench starts his Conquest adaptation this issue, but it’s nowhere near as impressive (and it’s impressive with Alfredo Alcala art) as the continuation of he and Tom Sutton’s story.
He and Sutton’s seafaring humans and apes discover the Federation—a bunch of ships joined to form a floating city-state, where peace and prosperity supposedly reign.
Of course, it doesn’t turn out to be as simple as that assumption and drama ensues. There’s amazing Sutton artwork of the characters moving through the impossibly large area and Moench comes up with some excellent plot turns.
Great characterization too.
The Alcala art on the adaptation makes it work; Moench lets the art do the heavy lifting. It’s twenty years after the last movie. Through the talking chimp, the reader gets to see just how lousy humans have made the world.
It’s mostly silent, just Alcala’s great art starkly showing the everyday atrocities.
CREDITS
Graveyard of Lost Cities; writer, Doug Moench; artist, Tom Sutton. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Part One: Slaves ; writer, Moench; artist, Alfredo Alcala. Editor, Archie Goodwin; publisher, Marvel Comics.
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