{"id":5971,"date":"2014-10-15T22:14:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T02:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=5971"},"modified":"2016-10-12T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:16:20","slug":"betrayal-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/betrayal-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} <strong>Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes<\/strong> by Corinna Bechko &amp; Gabriel Hardman, published in 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Exile on the Planet of the Apes<\/strong> by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman &amp; Marc Laming, published in 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm<\/strong> (3 volumes) by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman &amp; Damian Couceiro, published in 2013-14<\/p>\n<p>This set of graphic novels serves as a prequel to the original <strong>Planet of the Apes<\/strong> movie. Dr. Zaius, Cornelius, Zira, and the mutants all show up. One councillor decides that he must get rid of anyone who opposes him, whatever type of ape they may be. A scientist teaches sign language to a human, and later that human teaches it to other humans. After an unthinkable cataclysm devastates Ape City the chimpanzees are put to work &#8212; until they decide to go on strike. Like many comic books I found it a tiny bit hard to follow at times. But it&#8217;s a great story &#8212; with its own situations and characters, cleverly setting the stage for the movie. It even sheds new light on a couple of events in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d read the first volume before. I previously reviewed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/betrayal-of-the-planet-of-the-apes\/\">first book<\/a> in this set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} Betrayal of the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko &amp; Gabriel Hardman, published in 2012 Exile on the Planet of the Apes by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman &amp; Marc Laming, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm (3 volumes) by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman &amp; Damian Couceiro, published in 2013-14 This set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,56,79,5,8],"class_list":["post-5971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-graphic-novels","tag-planet-of-the-apes","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9601,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/9601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}