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PaulHanley — Alien Vs. Predator on the Planet of the Apes
Published: 2012-06-29 04:08:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 34516; Favourites: 515; Downloads: 0
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The new issue of CHAMPION! Magazine is out, and now that their preview is up, I can finally show this- my favorite COMMISSION: IMPOSSIBLE feature yet: "Alien Vs. Predator on the Planet of the Apes".
All credit to my editor, Mike Cotton, for suggesting the idea for this one- it was ridiculously fun to write and draw. Aside from this "cover art", there's a whopping three pages of sequentials I made to go with this- and if ya wanna see them, ya gotta go to iTunes and download it for your iPad now. Also, as of this issue, we're expanding to Amazon Kindles, and I think maybe even some Android products.
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That'll teach those damn dirty apes!
Looks amazing.
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The apes are fucked.
This is truly surpising idea. A Planet of the Apes-Crossover never crossed my mind. Tell your editor he had two great ideas. The first one was the idea itself and the second one was coming to you with it. Your art makes it really great and i I'm really looking forward to see the other pages.^^
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I dont say this alot but OMG. This is amazing, ive just been getting back into Planet of the Apes comics, i have some old ones based on the ill advised Tim Burton movie, but ive seen some awsome ones from BOOM comics that are prequels to the 1968 film that makes a very interesting expanded universe, it even has connections to the sequel "beneath planet of the apes".
And since seeing prometheus ive been after the Aliens and Predator Dark Horse Omnibuses. So this has come at just the right time lol.
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Thanks! In a strange way, I think of this as part of a trilogy of epic mashups, along with my "Godzilla Vs. Cthulhu" piece and a secret third oiece that should be coming up two issues from now in CHAMPION.
Though this was drawn months ago, I did work a PROMETHEUS nod into the sequential pages (there's also a big BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES nod). And I bought the first Alien/Predator Dark Horse Omnibus while working on this. Half for reference and half for nostalgia. I was surprised at how well the original "Alien Vs. Predator" mini held up- it really was an excellent piece of work.
Marvel did a PLANET OF THE APES series in the 70s which had some absolutely gorgeous painted covers (my fave is a pic of Cornelius reacting in horror from his spaceship window as the Alpha-Omega Bomb destroys the Earth below). I haven't read the BOOM Apes comics, but I've looked at them many times and they certainly look beautiful. I don't think I could ever buy one though, as I lost a (freaking brilliant) collaborator on a creator-owned project to one of those series. Damn you, BOOM! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
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Ive been trying to expand my comic book collection which consists of less than 10 Trade Paper Backs. Ive gotten into the game late, didnt have comics when i was young Britain hasnt always provided its countrymen with geek culture like America has lol.
Ive mostly got stuff like Walking Dead and Transmetropoliton. I want to get into stuff like X-men and Green Latern but its hard to know where to begin. So many arcs so many retcons.
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I shy away from those books for just that reason- they all go on so long they become meaningless. Also, a lot of those comics don't mean as much if you didn't grow up with them. The Claremont/Byrne X-MEN was amazing to read back in the early 80s, but it doesn't seem anywhwere near as mind-blowing now that hundreds of books (and cartoons and movies) have copied it. Still, every so often one of the DC or Marvel superhero books gets a writer who's so good they're worth following. I'll give pretty much any Marvel book by Brian Michael Bendis or Dan Slott a chance.
Some stuff I'd recommend, based on what you're saying: Y- THE LAST MAN; PREACHER; PLANETARY; QUEEN AND COUNTRY; ALIAS; DOOM PATROL (the Grant Morrison run from the late 80s and early 90s); DAREDEVIL (anything written by Frank Miller, plus the Brian Michael Bendis run from the last decade); Alan Moore's TOP 10 and BATMAN- THE KILLING JOKE; POWERS; HELLBOY; THE GOON; Neil Gaiman's THE SANDMAN; and Mark Millar's KICK-ASS and THE ULTIMATES volumes 1 and 2. And of course there's WATCHMEN and SIN CITY, if you've somehow missed those.
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Im trying to sort of get up to speed with whats been going on with comics, cos the stuff u get today has conection with stuff i havnt read, like how somthing is connected with "House of M" or "Secret Invasion" or "Infinaty Crisis". Im not wanting to go indepth with it just want to gleen the basics.
Ive got the first TPB of Preacher, heard QUEEN AND COUNTRY was good, Frank Miller back in the day was good. Yeh Watchmen is the main one to have.
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Thanks! And yes, the insanity is what attracted me to doing it. The idea's just so damn loco. The sequential pages I did are even crazier, since I managed to lay out a whole plot for this nuttieness. A very fun bit of spoofery, and yet also kinda badass.
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