{"id":1318,"date":"2012-08-19T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2015-05-18T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T17:30:07","slug":"planet-of-the-apes-the-long-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/planet-of-the-apes-the-long-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet of the Apes: The Long War"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4.5\/5} “Let me tell you what does<\/strong> make us different. The Lawgiver’s dream. The finest ape that ever lived — my friend — believed that apes and men should live in harmony. I believe in that dream. The problem is that humans don’t. Down deep each man believes that he is<\/strong> superior to you stinking animals. They ruled the planet for a million years and they think they still own it.”<\/p>\n

In the city of Mak apes and humans live in separate areas — they mostly live in peace. But then the Lawgiver is assassinated — by a human with a machine gun. Alaya, granddaughter of the Lawgiver, orders the release of Nix from prison. Nix killed many humans in the war, and now he will find the assassin — if he has to tear Skintown apart to do it.<\/p>\n

Planet of the Apes: The Long War<\/strong> is a graphic novel that was published in 2011.<\/p>\n

This book is part of the universe of the original five Planet of the Apes<\/strong> movies. It takes place 1300 years before Taylor arrived at the Planet of the Apes — or, to look at it another way, it takes place some number of years after the chimpanzee Caesar led a revolution after apes had been used as slaves by humans.<\/p>\n

It was a great idea to set this new story in a different time period than we’ve seen before — because anything can happen. There are references to aspects from the movies — apes and humans have been at war, some humans are mute, and some humans worship the bomb (sort of). If, like me, you’re a fan of the original Planet of the Apes<\/strong> movies you’ll enjoy this book.<\/p>\n

The book was written by Daryl Gregory (The Devil’s Alphabet<\/strong>) and illustrated by Carlos Magno (the comic book Transformers: Tales of the Fallen<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

Gregory captures the spirit of the movies — we’re definitely on the Planet of the Apes. And he gives us a new cast of interesting characters to follow.<\/p>\n

I like Magno’s artwork — it fits the gritty nature of the story. The apes look approximately the way they do in the movies, but slightly more realistic.<\/p>\n

The story doesn’t end at the end of the book — I will likely pick up the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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