Episode 10 – Planet of the Apes

It’s a madhouse! A MADHOUSE! Mike and Casey invade the Forbidden Zone with our theme song’s composer Todd Maxfield-Matsumoto and Comics Should Be Good!‘s Greg Hatcher. This month we’re talking about the classic film franchise: the Planet of the Apes! We talk about the film’s long-lived popularity, its relevance as socially-aware science fiction, its totally insane comic book adaptations in the 1970s, and its subsequent reboots. We also try to wrap our minds around how an ostensibly family-friendly adventure series includes bloody religious imagery, nudity, babies shot with handguns, and total nuclear devastation. Music:  “The Hunt from the Planet of the Apes” by Jerry Goldsmith Previously titled: “Two-Fisted Misanthrope”