planet of the apes

As 2014 draws to a close, we’re sticking to our annual tradition of appreciating our favorite geeky things from the past year. We polled the Fandomania staff to find out what everyone’s favorite movies for 2014 were, and here are the results. Read More

Poor Cornelius. The further this story progresses, the more he gets sucked into a wasp’s nest. Or stumbles into a wasp’s nest. Or maybe he’s poking a stick in it. Whatever the metaphor, each issue pushes the dude closer to the center Read More

After the adventuring and mayhem and psychic apes and psychic humans of the last few issues, it’s time to get back to some good old fashioned apes acting like savages while thinking they are totally enlightened and advanced. Note: This recap may Read More

One school of thought is that, if you name the screen adaptation after the source material, you should try to have some kind of resemblance to the original. The other school of thought dictates making a movie or TV show about whatever the hell you feel Read More

So, our heroes have jumped into the river and swam to safety. These are the heroes who were being chased by the angry mob of chimps from that small isolated town with the strange mutated apes in the mountains surrounding said small town. Remember all that? Read More

There was a nice little cliffhanger at the end of last issue, with the reveal of what had been causing the town to seem so weird. In this installment, we get a more literal expression of the cliffhanger trope as the chimps throw our heroes over the side Read More

If you're going to do something in the POTA universe — movies, comics, novels, video games, whatever — you have to understand the way that universe works. And the way that universe works is that, in addition to Apes always congratulating themselves for Read More

So here we are at Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm issue 6. Did you think we'd make it this far? I'm enjoying this series, but these apes are nuts (or should I say: BECAUSE these apes are nuts?). And it just keeps getting worse for these poor self Read More

This is a great series and BOOM! is doing a great job expanding the POTA universe into the licensed work arena while staying loyal to the feel of the original movie. It's been distressing to read every issue and have to give a great review. There's only Read More

This POTA: Cataclysm thing is heating up, and I like it. The problem, of course, is that I don't like that I like it. I am a critic, after all, and I should criticize something. I keep on hoping for an issue where they just phone it in, so I can totally Read More

With so many related but separate plot lines, they run the risk of turning it into a big pile of mush that gives the reader a sense of confusion instead of adventure. But they haven’t gone over that cliff yet. So, let’s see what happens in this issue. Read More

If Shakespeare and Leonardo da Vinci could be reanimated, put in a room together, and told to produce something for geeks (and if they were taught modern English), it would be Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm. That's a huge exaggeration of how good Read More