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Richard Pace is a Canadian writer and artist best known for co-creating the humorous and controversial series Second Coming from AHOY Comics. Pace has worked for Marvel Comics on titles such as The New Warriors, Night Thrasher, Doctor Strange, and Conan. His other notable works include Starman and Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham for DC Comics, as well as contributions to Savage Dragon for Image Comics.

Richard Pace became attached to MR Comics' Revolution on the Planet of the Apes very early on, when the series was initially envisioned as a crossover between the original movies and the Tim Burton's reimagining. The storyline featured Caesar and Thade engaged in an ape civil war, while the government sought to counter the apes with the Alpha-Omega Bomb.

UNPUBLISHED POTA Combat poster

Unpublished promotional poster by Richard Pace

Pace created a promotional poster, cover art, and several interior pages for the Thade-Caesar storyline. Although Fox initially approved the concept, they later changed their stance and decided to scrap the idea altogether. In response, Ty Templeton significantly altered the story to focus on Aldo instead of Thade. "When we moved to a new storyline," Templeton explained, "Richard was too busy to work on the book, and we, sadly, had to go with other creators." Pace's artwork was later intended to feature in a trade paperback compilation of the final miniseries[1], but the release was ultimately canceled due to financial issues faced by MR. Comics.[2]

Years later, the only issue of The Forbidden Zine fanzine published in early 2010 was said to include pages from the Thade-centric version of Revolution. As of 2024, when Ty Templeton was asked whether more pages were available, he clarified that the art featured in the issue of the fanzine was from the later draft, after the story was revised to focus on Aldo instead of Thade. Templeton also mentioned that Richard Pace had produced only six pages of pencils and those featured in the fanzine in color.

Templeton explained that all interior pages pertaining to the Thade version were stored on a computer that is no longer operational, meaning the art created by Pace for that version is lost to time and can no longer be recovered.

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