Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writers: Tim Seeley and David Walker
Artist: Fernando Dagnino
Colourist: Sandra Molina
Release Date: OUT NOW!!
Price: $3.99

Well, it had to happen I guess. Two of the most iconic anthropoid sagas of all time meeting head-on in a clash of cultures fusing Edgar Rice Burrough’s original Tarzan scenarios with Planet of the Apes mythology. To put it another way, this is a gigantic ‘What If…?’ that has been begging to be told, and now is, courtesy of Tim Seeley and David Walker.

And what a broad canvas they have to play on. Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes #1 takes us from equatorial Africa in 1901 where a young Tarzan is the adopted son of Zira and Cornelius right up to North America in 2016 where an adult Tarzan, showing no signs of being over one hundred years old, is waging war on the talking ape population. The plot it does thicken.

Throw in dinosaurs and a hole in space and you have more mystery and adventure than you can handle. Superbly detailed artwork by Fernando Dagnino makes this a joy to behold and, as an opening gambit, Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes #1 is bold and fast moving, with just enough background detail to silence the nit-pickers whilst enthralling newcomers.

In Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes #1,there are so many things that could have gone wrong with this particular fusion of characters, but Messrs Seeley and Walker have played their cards brilliantly. Fans of both classic fantasy adventure and seventies sci-fi will not want to miss a moment of Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes.

If I’m honest, Tarzan on the Planet of the Apes #1 had me at ‘Kreegah, Bundolo!’

 

 

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker