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Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern by Justin Jordan, Robbie Thompson
2.0

I'm really wishing I like this more. I enjoy Green Lantern. I LOVE Planet of the apes (especially the new ones). So this sounds pretty cool, right?

Green Lantern Hal goes on a mission and you know who, our favorite red/purple face friend Sinesto comes and fucks shit up. Boom, bang, bam Hal falls into a new world filled with...TALKING APES! Not a bad idea. Without his powers this could get good. But then the Apes begin to get rings, and begin to transform to different colors, and honestly by the freaking end it's just a big clusterfuck of apes verse apes, a few lanterns, and Grodd being...a dick as always. Yes, Grodd is here.

Good: I thought the idea was pretty good. Also some of the apes and human interactions were pretty well done and fun.

Bad: The art felt really, I dunno, poor? Some moments really lacked. I also thought the storyline went nowhere and by the end I was just like "oh look, same old bullshit" also the ending sucked because it tried too hard to recreate the original movies but ended up feeling more like that shitty Tim Burton remake.

Overall this is a big old skip for me. Robbie Thompson is a solid writer but this isn't one of his stronger books. A 2 out of 5.