The chimps are showing their true colors. Cold blooded, hatred filled, bigoted killers. That’s what you get when you combine intelligence with apes. You get cold-blooded killers. You also get an army that can look intimidating, even wearing goofy hats. But mostly you get cold-blooded killers.

Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes is great stuff if you liked the original. It is set 20 years before the original classic. The great thing about Betrayal is that it brings back the flavor and appeal of the original.

I was excited to get another chance to review POTA, since, in my opinion, the comic book format is great for the POTA universe. On the other hand I felt a bit of trepidation; it’s been a long time since I’ve been really harsh on any of the reviews I’ve done. But of course I totally dug on this issue.

I was excited to review the Puss In Boots movie soundtrack. I thought I would hear cute ditties, clever ripostes, and all those songs that are targeted at children and could be annoying, but somehow are so charming that us adults can love them too. Instead, I got Flamenco power riffs and symphonic epics.

How many times can you tell a story about, for example, a super powered guy who flies and is impervious to bullets? Or, as is the case with this comic, about a school for super villains? The answer is that you can do it an infinite amount of times if you know how to tell it in a different way than the guy before did it.

There are so many interesting bad girl good guy characters to choose from, I had to make another list. There’s something about that woman who on the one hand you can’t take home to mom but on the other hand you know will save your mom when the aliens invade.

Zenescope continues to expand its Grimm Fairy Tales series with The Library. The first two installments show some promise, with richy-rich student Sela Mathers and her younger brother Thomas, her cutthroat rich businessman father, and sexy librarian Ms. Sullivan.

If done incorrectly, the Naughty Girl Good Guy is nothing more than a sexualized sidekick. She’s degraded into a one-dimensional stock character, objectified to the point of misogyny. If done correctly, however, she offers a compelling personality and complex motivation and propels the plot. Let’s explore a few.

When you think about it, there’s good POTA and there’s bad POTA. This little gem almost has everything you could want from the POTA franchise: scantily clad warrior women, heroic sexy manly men, a weighty political subtext, and, most importantly, apes. The only thing missing are those over-the-top stylings that only Charlton Heston could pull off.

In a post-apocalyptic world, bands of roving recreants wander the Earth and mutated humans threaten humanity, while a small group of cryogenically preserved military and scientific elite must find a way to not only survive, but bring back a semblance of civilization to an otherwise lost world.