Charles Marshall sets his Apes maybe sixty years after the last movie. This time period avoids continuity problems, I suppose, but Marshall also makes a bunch of strange decisions.
Most humans can no longer talk, even though in the future epilogue of the final movie… they can.
He also has an excerpted quote from the 1982 World Book, but it’s from the real World Book, not one from the Apes universe. I get what he’s trying to do in the scene, it’s just a missed opportunity for better detail.
Marshall gets around to having an ape finally going power mad–a gorilla, of course–and it’s one of the better developments in this issue.
Adventure didn’t have a good production budget–Kent Burles’s pencils are awful–but “mistakes” aside, Marshall does show some ambition.
He also knows how to pace a comic. Lots happens here, it’s not a skimpy read.
CREDITS
Beneath; writer, Charles Marshall; penciller, Kent Burles; inker, Barbara Kaalberg; letterer, Clem Robins; editors, Dan Danko, Chris Ulm and Mickie Villa; publisher, Adventure Comics.
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