Showing posts with label planet of the apes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planet of the apes. Show all posts

Monday, 9 April 2018

Planet Of The Apes: Evolution's Nightmare



Here's a fave from Planet Of The Apes that we, of course, read in the above British weekly. It's Devil-May-Care Doug Moench's simian riff on The Defiant Ones, a rock-solid premise that's been adapted and refined many times over the years, and is based around the Einstein quote: I know not with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
And those new Apes movies? Wouldn't they've been better if they'd just got Doug to write 'em?


























Friday, 7 October 2016

Earl Norem



A major part of the Marvel black & white mags, and therefore of my own particular Bronze Age, were the glorious cover paintings by Earl Norem, who seemed to contribute to just about every title in the line.
Earl had previously toiled in the 'Men's Sweat' magazines, contributing magnificent work like this:


And this:


But even if we hadn't known that's where he earned his chops, you could kind of tell from his Marvel covers anyway. His figures have absolute weight and reality, and are just this side of over the top. Here's some of my favourites: