| abstract | - In 2001, acclaimed director Tim Burton released a new version of Planet of the Apes. This version was an entirely new movie rather than a remake. It failed to find it's audience, but the comics were a different matter. Merchandising king, Dark Horse Comics, quickly produced their own comic adaptation of the movie and started pumping the market with new series and titles spun-off from that fictional universe. The comic books proved to be fairly successful and published nine original comic adventures (also collected into three original graphic novels) before passing into cancellation as a result of the poor response to the movie which spawned them, and the abandonment of plans for a movie sequel. The Dark Horse original comic series began with the three-issue series Planet of the Apes: The Human War, set a generation beyond the events of the movie, and concerned with the central characters Esau and Seneca, struggling to achieve the failed dream of ape/human harmony. The following six issues, leading on directly from The Human War, were simply titled Planet of the Apes issues #1-6, although when all the issues were collected as graphic novels, issues #1-3 (written by Ian Edginton, with art by Adrian Sibar, Paco Medina, Norman Lee and Juan Vlasco) were billed as Planet of the Apes: Old Gods and issues #4-6 (written by Dan Abnett and Ian Edginton, with art by Sanford Greene, Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar, Norman Lee, Pop Mhan and Juan Vlasco) as Planet of the Apes: Blood Lines. The first three-comic series was published in September to November 2001, and the second series in December 2001 to February 2002. The graphic novel collections were published in February 2002 and May 2002 respectively.
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