Chip Mosher at BOOM! Studios tells us independent comics publisher is debuting an “all-new, all-original ongoing Planet of the Apes comic series! Based firmly in Twentieth Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes franchise, this series written by award-winning sci-fi novelist Daryl Gregory (Dracula: The Company of Monsters, Pandemonium) and drawn by sensational artist Carlos Magno (Green Lantern Corps) transports you to a tumultuous time where man and ape stand at the uneasy brink of war! This April, don’t be the last to get your hands on these damn dirty apes!”
Boom’s Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon says “In the new series, we’re taking our cues from the classic Apes movies, but we’re shaking it up with some major surprises of our own. This book is sure to make fans new and old cheer, rave and, dare I say, go Ape when they see what we have in store for them!”
The comic series is set before the original 1968 Planet of the Apesmovie, but “true to the continuity of the first five films, this new ongoing comic series begins in a time when Ape society reaches a new golden age. But there are ripples of dissent in both the ape and human ranks. Tensions will rise and soon all will be caught in chaos! And amidst all this uncertainty, what is the fate of… The Lawgiver? Find out as a new chapter of the acclaimed sci-fi classic, Planet of the Apes, begins this April!”
The movie series was based on the 1963 novel by French author Pierre Boulle. The movie series ran to five films between 1968 and 1973, starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowell, and spawned a short-lived 1974 television series.