The ApeCast

It's the final Slaydown! Jack and Geoff have come to the end of 70's Marvel UK POTA mag's ill-advised attempt to graft an Apes narrative onto unrelated material, as the Apeslayer visits Yankee Stadium for his final adventure! The two marvel for the last time ever at an ape-faced crab monstrosity, a scantily-clad molecular biologist with a heart of gold, and the surprisingly-humiliating defeat of the title's best ape villain. Farewell Apeslayer; we hardly knew ye!

Jack and Geoff are joined by Sam Stovold for a return to the world of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal! Season finale Slave of the Scorpion has ape-men in it, which is excuse enough around these parts for another in-depth discussion of this vibrant, violent masterpiece. The three have a lot of love for this episode and Primal as a whole, and still find time for frequent digressions into dogs, SPACE PLAYERS, and other assorted nonsense!

The Apeslaying insanity continues in Marvel's UK POTA magazine, as Jack and Geoff stop off at the Museum of Terror before arriving at the Airport of Death! Apeslayer's got a new look, his double-froed friend Mala is starting to come into his own, and the book finally has an ape worth giving a damn about. While marveling at the new creative team and the editors' continued inability to prevent the War of the Worldliness from peeking through, your ape hosts also take a deep Earth history dive into April 1975, courtesy of previous guest Sam Stovold!

Jack and Geoff are joined again by Sam Stovold for a look at the continuing adventures of Apeslayer in Marvel UK's POTA mag! This time around, Apeslayer is fighting for his life against ape tripods, giant lizards, and increasingly bizarre ape-headed robot/mutant creatures that definitely scream Planet of the Apes! The three also get into some Earth history from a year that may or may not be germane to the time these issues were originally published.

In a return to the weird world of 70's Marvel comics, Jack and Geoff turn their gaze toward the UK's POTA mag, and the Apeslayer contained therein! Chained to a weekly publishing schedule and starved for fresh Apes content, the editors made the only logical choice: they took a bunch of War of the Worlds comics, drew ape heads over the aliens, re-christened its protagonist, and called it a DAYpe! In this episode, your hosts meet the Apeslayer, and ponder just how well this bizarre repurposing works.

Winding down their coverage of the Chronicles of Ashlar, Jack and Geoff discuss the last three issues of Dark Horse's short-lived POTA series, Bloodlines! Amidst the wildly-vacillating art, same old same-old storylines and surprising number of decapitations, the ape hosts also find time to discuss Darth Vader, fancy grownup words from old Star Wars and Calvin & Hobbes comics, and their thoughts on the Burtonverse as a whole. Goodbye Ashlar, it's been nice…

First there was nothing…then there was Old Gods! Jack and Geoff continue their exploration of Dark Horse's early 00s comic output with a look at the first three issues of Planet of the Apes! With the Human War behind them, Esau and Seneca are on the run. Will they see their dream of a truly equal ape/human society realized? Will a new-yet-familiar status quo be established? Will more than one character form the 2001 movie deign to make an appearance? Your Ape hosts are here to answer all of these questions and more!

Jack and Geoff are joined by new guest Cam Siemer for a look at Dark Horse's first real foray into original Apes content, The Human War! This 3-issue miniseries picks up a few decades after the events of 2001's POTA, where grandchildren and Apes references abound. Does it carry on the legacy of that film, or is it actually good? One thing is certain: this right here is a real Palpatine Situation of an episode!

Taking a detour from the planet Ashlar—but not the early 00's—Jack and Geoff now turn to the medium of the videoed game! There were indeed POTA games released on the PC, PlayStation, and Game Boys both Advanced and Colored alike. And your Ape hosts are here to delve deep into the alternate Apes worlds presented in these forgotten non-classics. Professor Zaius, Hesline, the Mandrill Militia, Bosko and Ben are all here. Press START to begin!

For some reason, 2001's Planet of the Apes inspired three separate printed adaptations—a novelization, a junior novelization, and a comic—and Jack and Geoff are here to cover 'em all! Will characters like Attar and Daena become fleshed-out characters within these adaptations? Will Thade and Limbo be the same species? Is there a soul inside Leo Davidson? Listen on, Ape Faithful!