The ApeCast

Things continue to heat up as Jack & Geoff look at issue #2 of Marvel's Planet of the Apes vs. Fantastic Four! As the Ape-tastic Four (Zira, Cornelius, Ursus and Dr. Zaius) reckon with their newly acquired powers, The Red Ghost does his Soviet communist thing and foments rebellion among the ape proletariat! The pieces are being moved into place, and your Ape hosts are here to break it all down!

In an all-new bonus Ape-isode, Jack & Geoff are joined by horror aficionado Kev Young for a look at killer chimp movie Primate! This 2026 slasher has a variety of gnarly kills, callbacks to animal horror movies of yore, and all the fun facts about rabies you'll ever need, and your Ape pals are here to break it all down!

Worlds collide as Jack and Geoff discuss the first issue of Fantastic Four vs Planet of the Apes miniseries! Thrust into a strange new world via the machinations of the Red Ghost and his Super Apes, the FF find themselves in the legal crosshairs of Dr Zaius! Get in on the ground floor here, Ape Faithful, and prepare for the ape-tastic!

It is a time of transitions as Jack and Geoff continue Malibu Graphics' POTA! First, a major, much-loved character makes the transition from alive to dead in the pages of issue #18. And then, shifting to the world of Conquest of the POTA for issue #19, we see the beginnings of Ceasar's bloody ape revolution through the eyes of an ordinary circus-loving human. It's a cornucopia of Apes excitement in the mighty Malibu manner!

It's time for a horde-tacular conclusion as Jack and Geoff discuss the final two issues of the POTA/Alien Nation crossover Ape Nation! As the evil alliance of General Ollo and would-be alien conqueror Danada comes undone, a trio of interspecies companions prepares for a bloody showdown with the implacable horde! Will the social commentary that is emblematic of both franchises make a late-game appearance, or will things descend into total carnage? Listen along and find out!

The year is drawing to a close, which can only mean one thing: it's time for our annual Xmas Ape-tacular! Jack and Geoff are joined by the usual menagerie of merry elves (Erin Clarke, Sam Stovold, and Kev Young) to hand out a series of Ape-cademy Awards honouring the best of 2025! Then it's games time, this year featuring the all-new, all-thrilling Coe-one & Done!

The most unexpected comics crossover event of 1991 is here! Jack and Geoff are joined again by Barm to discuss the first two issues of Malibu's Ape Nation! It's the comic that answers the question "What would happen if POTA met Alien Nation, the aliens-as-metaphor-for-immigrants sci-fi franchise that was briefly a thing in the late 80s/early 90s?" The answer is FUN, as your Ape hosts discuss Alien Nation as a whole, the ways it fits (and does not fit) into the POTA milieu, and the sheer delights to be found in a marauding horde of apes, humans and aliens!

Jack & Geoff are joined by Barm for a look at Countdown Zero! This standalone tale (encompassing Malibu·s POTA #14-17) focuses on recently crash-landed astronauts who find themselves on a planet of apes! Unlike other such tales, this one keeps the focus on the humans and the rising tensions between them, as they are pursued by an enigmatic, skunk-striped gorilla and his Spanish-speaking crew!

Bells are ringing in the pages of Malibu Comics! The franchise's first-ever ape-proximation of our human-style wedding ceremony is happening, and Jack and Geoff are crashing their way in. But that's not all: there's also an X-cellent adventure with everyone's favourite ape bumblers, and more surprise appearances from across the Malibu Apes universe than you can ring a matrimonial bell at!

The swamp ape vs. mutant ape conflict you've been clamoring for is here, as Jack and Geoff look at issues #10 and #11 of Malibu's POTA comic! Departing artists Burles and Kaalberg are pulling out all the stops in these incident-packed issues that also see the return of a long-departed villain, a truly bizarre origin story, and Dr. Moto being his devilishly delightful self!