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Exile on the Planet of the Apes 2 (April 2012)
I really like the Laming art a lot. He brings personality to the apes during their conversations, lots of pensive thoughts and so on. He deserves a much better script. Bechko and Hardman continue...
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Exile on the Planet of the Apes 3 (May 2012)
Bechko and Hardman have a difficult task this issue. They need to make the humans sympathetic, but the humans’ stupidity gets in the way. The writers fail and basically prove what the bad apes always...
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Exile on the Planet of the Apes 4 (June 2012)
Bechko and Hardman wrap things up quickly, maybe even getting their Apes series in a place where a sequel might not be pointless. The issue itself concentrates, with the exception of the good chimps...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 1 (September 2012)
Corrina Bechko and Gabriel Hardman come up with something unexpected here in Cataclysm. Historically, Planet of the Apes comics have one big problem–there’s not enough material from the movies to...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 2 (October 2012)
With Cataclysm‘s second issue, Bechko and Hardman run into a predictable problem. They’re explaining something about a licensed property. In this issue, the reader learns why the ape civilization...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 3 (November 2012)
Boom! needs better editors. Maybe they just didn’t want to piss off Hardman, who’s very high profile even if he is just writing the book, but someone should have–strike that one, needed to–tell he and...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 4 (December 2012)
Are you kidding me? The grand reveal is so obvious I had it figured a page into the sequence. Bechko and Hardman–and I know I’ve complimented them on their adherence to Apes movie mythology–try way...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 5 (January 2013)
Bechko and Hardman continue their setup for the first Planet of the Apes movie with… well, I guess it’s kind of a post-disaster story. They’ve introduced all of the primary apes from the first movies,...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 6 (February 2013)
As far as expansive mythology goes, Planet of the Apes doesn’t have much. The standards repeat themselves very quickly. But Beckho and Hardman manage to repeat one of those very same standards and...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 7 (March 2013)
It’s funny how the Zaius subplot is actually where Bechko and Hardman have the most problems, even though it’s mostly a talking heads subplot. They’re keeping the Zaius subplot… well, it’s kind of the...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 8 (April 2013)
The story arc, so far as it involves the ape expedition to the valley–I’m liking Bechko and Hardman not getting locked into actual titled arcs–comes to a close. There are a lot of surprises. One of...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 9 (May 2013)
I can’t believe I’m going to make this statement–Bechko and Hardman are playing too loose with Apes movie continuity. I don’t even like the movies. But they’ve got a talking human here eight years...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 10 (June 2013)
Maybe killing the talking human is why Cornelius doesn’t remember her when Chuck Heston shows up, but it’s hard to say. But she doesn’t die this issue, just gets her throat slit. Meaning maybe her...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 11 (July 2013)
Big reveals, small reveals. Along with the biggest of them all–the twelfth issue is the finale, something I didn’t realize. Bechko and Hardman have always have problems with their Apes series because...
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Planet of the Apes: Cataclysm 12 (August 2013)
So did Boom! cancel,Cataclysm, did the writers quit or did the license go away? Something obviously happened. This issue jumps three years ahead of the previous one, then another five years from where...
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Deep Gravity 1 (July 2014)
Deep Gravity is missing something rather important–a hook. It’s a sci-fi series about people working on a different planet, mining its resources and bringing them back to Earth. The explanations all...
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Kinski 1 (May 2013)
Kinski is a strange comic. The content–a business guy on the road doing a pitch and finding a lost dog–is strange. It’s even stranger given Gabriel Hardman’s stark, realistic black and white art....
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Kinski 2 (June 2013)
The strangeness of Kinski continues. Hardman sort of wraps the narrative around itself, with the protagonist going back to the same motel from the previous issue, having another encounter with one of...
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Kinski 3 (September 2013)
It’s the equivalent of an action issue for Kinski. Hardman resolves the previous issue’s cliffhanger, putting the protagonist and his friend back on the road. There’s some slight character drama–and a...
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Kinski 4 (February 2014)
So now the action moves to the RV park, or RV gathering–it’s unclear how it’s working but the RVs aren’t parked in any sort of sensible way. Not to harp on it, it’s just strange. And the sidekick even...
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