5 Comics Worth Reading This Weekend (28th Oct)

5. Tarzan On The Planet Of The Apes #2

(Dark Horse/Boom) Walker/Seeley/Dagnino/Molina

Worth Reading For: Dagnino’s Art That Swims In Molina’s Sweltering Colours

“Early twentieth-century British colonialists have rebuilt the slave trade around the intelligent apes that raised Tarzan in the jungles of Africa. Now Tarzan and his adoptive brother Caesar fight back to free the apes—but discover that man and ape will have to unite if the surface world is to survive.”

There are plenty of cross-overs that either entice or enrage but this is very much the former. Walker and Seeley succeed in splicing together Pierre Boulle’s world with that of Edgar Rice Burroughs - so much so that you can barely see the seams on their contemporary social criticism - but the driving force of this story is the art.

Fernando Dagnino builds his lines and tones in layers so fluid they seem to move both when you’re not looking and when you are, and Sandra Molina’s colours dowse them in a sweltering heat that you can feel coming off the page.

If you’re in for a cold winter pick up this comic and you’ll find your escape.