The Stop Button

There’s a letter from the editor this issue explaining all the improvements Moench is making in the Battle adaptation are actually from the shooting script and not Moench’s invention.

I guess it’s fitting this chapter of the adaptation is the worst. There’s nothing Moench can do… it’s just a bad script and movie. But Virgil Redondo, who isn’t great, is a lot better on the art chores than the adaptation’s had in a while.

Far less impressive, as far as serviceable art goes, is Trimpe on the original story. He has another magical landscape where the top of a tree just exists superimposed on a river.

But Moench’s writing on the original story is excellent. He has committed to the recent character developments and he’s bringing those—and the more epical events in the storyline—to a head.

It’s a shame Trimpe ruins the exquisite world Moench’s better artists created.

CREDITS

Apes of Iron; artist, Herb Trimpe. Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Part Six: Conquest of Blood; artist, Virgil Redondo. Writer, Doug Moench; editor, John Warner; publisher, Marvel Comics.