Planet of the Apes 3 (July 1990)

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Looking at Burles’s “art,” I’ll bet he really likes Kirby. He sort of draws Kirby bodies, but poorly. His faces too… Kirby-esque, only horrendous. I wonder if inker Kaalberg helps or hinders.

Again, Marshall comes up with some great action scenes and Burles butchers them. There’s one of a gorilla—the good gorilla, named Grunt—taking down a horse. Should be epic. It isn’t.

Marshall runs into a lot of logic holes this issue, even when he comes up with good material. For example, he has a couple chimps find the Statue of Liberty. They think it’s cool and interesting and whatever. It shows the inhabitants existing in the world, something the movies were really bad about.

Unfortunately, he also has the weird unspeaking human thing. It’s like Marshall never saw the fifth Apes movie. He’s inventive enough I wish he’d explain it.

So, besides the art, it’s fine.

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