Artists Darren Goodhart and Bruce McCorkindale find an interesting way to be faithful to the source material. Their apes look like people wearing cheap masks. Instead of embracing the limitless possibilities, Goodhart and McCorkindale maybe have the “cheapest” ape design I’ve seen in an Apes comic.
Mann’s script continues to be Blood’s biggest problem though. Here he starts (or maybe he started last issue and I just blocked it) using thought balloons for his protagonist ape bounty hunter. These thought balloons are probably Mann’s worst writing, which is quite a feat, since there aren’t a great deal of them. It’s usually the protagonist making some obvious observation or Mann uses them for exposition.
This series, it turns out, ties into not just the regular Apes series, but also Urchak’s Folly. Mann reminds suffering readers the branding duped them into this bad investment.
It doesn’t even have a good cliffhanger.
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