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Planetary 15

Higher than the sun :)

18:11 / 04.08.01

Planetart 15. Best ever.
Despite the fact that the story is all over the place. The Plot ars seem no more tha vague promises. It's still a brilliant issue.
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The whole Aboriginal dreamtime/Music/Vrius . Shades of Grant Morrison, anyone?
The reintroduction of Axel Brass and Ambrose Chase's (family). I hope Ellis trys to do soemting with these charactres insted of just tesaing us with them.

Still a excellent issue nontherless. (Almost worth the wait)

bio k9

09:09 / 05.08.01

All the people bitching about the wait between issues of New X Men obviously don't read this title. How long has it been? Four months? Anyway, it was worth the wait. I'd rather get 1 good comic every four months than get a rushed crap job on a regular schedule.

Planetary is by far my favorite thing Warren Ellis has done for several reasons:

A) The artwork is consistantly top notch.

B) Each issue is basically a one shot, stand alone story, connected by the larger plot of the book.

C) There are no origional ideas in the book. I know that sounds like a cheap shot at Warren Ellis but the reason I like this book is it uses elements of all the sci-fi, monster, spy, and magic book, movies and comics I grew up on. Geek boy pop culture, boiled down into a thick paste...mmmmm good.

Fav issue: #2
Least Fav issue: #13

Jackie Susann

09:09 / 05.08.01

the new planetary is way dodgy - is it too much to ask americans to do the slightest bit of research before they write stories about global indigenous cultures? if he'd asked even one australian, they could have pointed out the biggest fucking problem in the story - that "ayers rock" is a totally outdated term from australia's colonial history; the monolith is now known by its traditional name, uluru. aaargh, stupid fucking americans, englishmen, whoever they fucking are...

Ganesh

11:37 / 06.08.01

Indeed. And even when they called it by the colonial name, they misspelt it. Twats.

Jack Fear

11:44 / 06.08.01

Ellis has said on his Delphi Forum that he agonized over what to call the rock but, in the end, went with the name that would be most immediately recognizable to a worldwide audience.

The misspelling, on the other hand, was an editorial error, nothing to do with Ellis, and will be corrected in the collected reprints.

And given that Snow last saw the rock in 1932, and has been living in seclusion in recent years, it makes a perverse kind of sense.

Ganesh

12:10 / 06.08.01

So it's not a sneaky homage to the UK's Twee Poetess of the People, Pam Ayres, then?

Sam Lowry

16:34 / 06.08.01

I liked it a lot

. The main story still seems to be crawling at snail's pace towards resolution, but I'm glad Snow is taking the offensive at last. It's a dangerous game though. I'm wondering how the Four will retaliate...

And now let the fun begin... I've got $1 here (ey, I'm poor

) that says #16 doesn't come out this year...

Any takers?

YNH

07:59 / 09.08.02

*bump*

has 16 come out yet?

sleazenation

08:19 / 09.08.02

No it hasn't and is unlikely to until next year, after the jla planetary cross over

Our Lady of The Two Towers

11:46 / 09.08.02

Dread Pirate Crunchy the new planetary is way dodgy - is it too much to ask americans to do the slightest bit of research before they write stories about global indigenous cultures?

So was the problem in the script written by the English Ellis or in the interpretation by the rest of the creative team (whoever they are and whatvever nationality they are?

Jack Fear

12:05 / 09.08.02

Read my post above, Lada.

yawn - thing's buddy

14:12 / 09.08.02

peeps just aren't reading the damn threads these days.

by the way - I'm a bit lost - are we talking about the plantary that came out quite a while back now?

with uluru being the top of some giant's heed?

so long since I read this book.

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