BOOM! Goes Planet Of The Apes

“Someone must always publish Planet of the Apes comic books.”
The Lawgiver, citing Obscure Ape Law

Boom! Studios has become the latest publisher to acquire the Planet Of The Apes license allowing them to monkey around with new comic book adventures.

Excellent!

From Farscape to The Muppet Show, Boom! has proved over and over that they know how to make good licensed comics so I’m looking forward to whatever comes out. They’re tying the new title into the continuity of the five classic films, so for Ape-nuts like me, I couldn’t be happier.

The new series will be written by Daryl Gregory and illustrated by Carlos Magno.

In an long-ago world, I was the editor on Malibu Comics’ versions of Planet Of The Apes and it was a very fun time for me - I turned a number of talented creators loose on the books and for the couple of years we had the license, they did everything from a traditional in-continuity take to dressing up the Apes in leather and putting them on motorcycles. Good times.

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Let’s Rebuild LEN WEIN’S Comic Book Collection!

I have a tiny Len Wein story which is almost inconsequential, but it gets me to my eventual point. Years ago, I had created a comic book property called Dinosaurs For Hire that was published by Malibu Comics. It attracted some media attention and a couple of deals were put into place. One of those deals was an option by 20th Century Fox to turn my characters into an animated television series.

There was no way Fox was going to let me be involved in the project – I was at the time just a comic book writer, after all, who had merely created the characters – but they invited me down to attend a courtesy meeting with the writer assigned to the project.

So I headed down to the Fox studio one afternoon. Imagine my surprise when I walked into the conference room and was introduced to Mr. Wein.

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