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Tom Sutton inking Mike Ploog.

It must be seen to be believed. The result is more Sutton than Ploog but the fluidity to the action is all Ploog. This visual feast is on Moench’s getting even stranger original story this issue.

While waiting for the evil gorilla to arrive, the protagonists take peyote and trip. I guess as long as it wasn’t a comic book, Marvel didn’t care about encouraging drugs in the seventies.

Moench brings in a lot of sci-fi elements this story and it’ll be interesting to see what comes of them.

Alcala continues to be the essential component to Moench’s Conquest adaptation. With so little dialogue–basically just squabbling politicans–Acala has to make just the visuals compelling. He does a great job of it; Alcala’s future world is restrictive, but still somehow open. It’s claustrophobic.

It’s a good adaptation; Alcala makes it even more spectacular.

CREDITS

Demons of the Psychedrome; writer, Doug Moench; penciller, Mike Ploog; inker, Tom Sutton. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, Part Four: The Savage Is King; writer, Moench; artist, Alfredo Alcala. Editor, Archie Goodwin; publisher, Marvel Comics.