Beneath the Planet of the Apes is a lame movie, but the comic book adaptation–while it contains the same lame plot, weak Gold Key writing and art–is still a little better.
Why?
Because the comic is much shorter than the movie’s ninety minute or whatever running time.
Artists Alberto Giolitti and Sergio Costa–the script writer is unknown–don’t bring anything to the comic. They can competently draw the apes’ faces (surprisingly so) but they aren’t able to draw the two Earthmen leads similarly. On one hand, it’s unlikely the two men look alike, on the other… the filmmakers casted Charlton Heston’s replacement because he looked enough like Heston to fool people seeing the trailer.
The comic really reveals how little texture a bad movie has to it. Of course, the comic–missing all opportunities to expand on the movie–is awful in and of itself.
But anyway….
CREDITS
Pencillers, Alberto Giolitti and Sergio Costa; inker, Giolitti; publisher, Gold Key Comics.
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