Jennifer Shrader Lawrence was born August 15, 1990, in Louisville, Kentucky, to Karen (Koch), who manages a children's camp, and Gary Lawrence, who works in construction. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar. Had Planet Of The Apes Adventures: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus been priced at £20 or £25, I wouldn't have immediately returned it to Amazon, but as it was I felt as though I had been royally ripped off by Marvel.As the highest-paid actress in the world in 20, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. but that feeling was soon squashed by the reality of this ridiculously overpriced collection. These books were a formative part of my childhood ( as I've written about here) and I was really excited about being able to pick them up again. about $100 or £70-80), it turned out to be a paltry book of just over 200 pages, compared to the 900 or so you expect to get in a true Marvel Omnibus edition. This is the title's USP and The House of Ideas needs to concentrate on that.Īdmittedly, I'm also rather bitter about Marvel's first foray - now they've reclaimed the licence for The Planet of The Apes property - into republishing their classic back catalogue of '70s Apes' comics.Īlthough the first collection - described as an "omnibus" - was priced like one of their giant, hefty omnibus editions ( i.e. I really hope that the story of Pug moves front-and-centre in the next few issues because I want to read a comic that focuses on the apes' reaction to their plight. I know Planet of The Apes is allegorical/metaphorical but it's also action-driven and the opening salvo of this second issue simply wasn't. Pug's story is what I want from a Planet of The Apes comic.
The back-up recounts the progress of " The Smartest Gorilla In The World", Pug, from a circus attraction to a leader of the simian uprising in a handful of pages that ultimately tie into an event mentioned in passing during the first story. In an "old school" book, before the birth of decompressed storytelling, the key points of this opening tale could have been conveyed succinctly in a single page or two, allowing more space for the way more interesting second story. The two halves of the book are so different in style that I thought they must have been written by different people, but according to the credits David F Walker wrote the whole issue.Īlthough the first story ( which continues the narrative of issue one) has some visual diversions, it feels overall like a failed attempt at a West Wing-style walk-and-talk, again info dumping a ton of backstory, while - unfortunately - nudging the main plot forward only a few inches.
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