{"id":6068,"date":"2015-01-31T21:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6068"},"modified":"2016-10-11T11:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T15:10:44","slug":"planet-of-the-apes-the-utopians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/planet-of-the-apes-the-utopians\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet of the Apes: The Utopians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} <strong>Planet of the Apes: The Long War<\/strong> by Daryl Gregory &amp; Carlos Magno, published in 2011<br \/>\n<strong>Planet of the Apes: The Devil&#8217;s Pawn<\/strong> by Daryl Gregory &amp; Carlos Magno, published in 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Planet of the Apes: Children of Fire<\/strong> by Daryl Gregory &amp; Carlos Magno, published in 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Planet of the Apes: The Half Man<\/strong> by Daryl Gregory, Jeff Parker &amp; others, published in 2013<br \/>\n<strong>Planet of the Apes: The Utopians<\/strong> by Daryl Gregory, Diego Barreto &amp; Darrin Moore, published in 2014<\/p>\n<p>In 2680 AD in the city state of Mak humans and apes are living together relatively peacefully. Then the lawgiver is killed by a human with a machine gun &#8212; a weapon no one has seen in 500 years. Alaya and Sullivan, ape and human, were brought up together and both called the lawgiver &#8220;grandfather.&#8221; Now they are both in positions of power, but the two sides are quickly becoming more and more antagonistic. If you can&#8217;t wait until the next movie for some <strong>Planet of the Apes<\/strong> fun, pick up this set of graphic novels. The story will keep you turning the pages. This a great series set in time period different than the movies when anything can happen.<\/p>\n<p>I previously read and reviewed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/planet-of-the-apes-the-long-war\/\">first book<\/a> in this set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} Planet of the Apes: The Long War by Daryl Gregory &amp; Carlos Magno, published in 2011 Planet of the Apes: The Devil&#8217;s Pawn by Daryl Gregory &amp; Carlos Magno, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: Children of Fire by Daryl Gregory &amp; Carlos Magno, published in 2012 Planet of the Apes: The Half [&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-6068","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\/6068","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=6068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9525,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6068\/revisions\/9525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}