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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-07 15:48:00

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char: elijah snow, char: jakita wagner, creator: john cassaday, creator: warren ellis, title: planetary

Long have I awaited this day.

Four scans from Planetary #27, which I can confirm does exist.

This one's a wrapup issue, as Planetary has won the war, is changing the world, and Snow turns his attention to Ambrose, the black guy who died first, many, many issues ago. Since his power was time manipulation, they believe he froze time shortly before he would have died, and is thus stuck in a bubble of frozen time from which they aim to rescue him.

To do this, they enlist the aid of what I'm sure if very well-researched by still very impenetrable theoretical physics/technobabble (in my Warren Ellis comic? Well I never!). While Drums and the nerd squad do their thang, Jakita is frustrated.

The imaging reveals that he is in fact there, so they go about building a time machine to get him out.

The use of this machine carries its own inscrutable techno-dilemma, which, as near as I can understand, is that using a time machine will instantaneously create the future, which up until this point exists as a series of Schrodinger's Cat possibilities. Or something. Elijah doesn't care, and assumes the future will sort itself out.

I was never as big a fan of Planetary as some people were (often, the concepts Ellis was using were a lot more fun than anything he actually did with them in the story), but this is a solid epilogue (though I'm sure some people will understandably, given the length of production time, be expecting something bigger and louder).

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	cainofdreaming 2009-10-07 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	Jakita: Oh my God. I'll get a boob job? And here I thought I felt shallow five minutes ago. (Reply to this)

	heat16 2009-10-07 08:18 pm UTC (link)
	Does this mean, pray tell, reprints of the first Absolute Planetary and a second Abs? (Reply to this)

	stig 2009-10-07 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	So, what, he created an infinite number of futures or an infinite number of universes or an infinite number of bears, or what? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-10-07 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	It's left vague; one of the alterna-Drums says that "For all we know you created another 100,000 universes" at one point. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stig 2009-10-07 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	And oh, the irony that this was scripted years and years before 52. (Reply to this) (Parent)

stolisomancer
2009-10-07 08:45 pm UTC (link)

In the preview pages that were released last month, Drummer says that the problem with the Dowling-designed time machine is that the moment you switch it on, you limit future time travelers to being able to travel back to that point in time. Since the time machine didn't function prior to its moment of initial operation, it cannot propel people past that point.

Thus, the appearance of the future Planetary team members at that point of origin means two things: one, they will come back to witness the moment, and two, Elijah Snow never allows anyone else to have the time machine schematics.

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	jarodrussell 2009-10-07 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	Didn't the Hob solve that problem by finding a preexisting, natural wormhole? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jarodrussell 2009-10-07 10:02 pm UTC (link)
	kicks Rapidshare Uh, I mean...uh...I sure can't wait until I can get to my comic shop! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-08 04:24 am UTC (link)
	~~Well, someone on 4chan uploaded it to a sendspace account.~~ (Reply to this) (Parent)

thekamisama.livejournal.com
2009-10-07 11:16 pm UTC (link)

I read it on the ride home from the LCS. The plot was thick with Ellis-science brain leak. There was no action. The plot involves lots of talking and thinking. The whole thing seemed rather anti-climatic at the end.

So it was the perfect final issue. I have not read a finer single issue of a fetish suit hero pron comic this year.

Wow, Planetary is finally finished, Nexus ended this year too, Morrison's Authority abortion is going to be cleaned up by Giffen and Gaiman's Marvelman might finally get wrapped up in the next few years. Anything left in hiatus hell? Besides Desolation Jones?

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	foxhack 2009-10-08 01:48 am UTC (link)
	That Kevin Smith-scripted Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target mini, I think. But nobody really cares about that... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-10-08 01:53 am UTC (link)
	Smith's said he really can't finish it at this point because of how the characters have changed in the intervening period. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-10-08 02:20 am UTC (link)
	So writing "This story takes place before all this stuff happened" is too hard for him to do? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	colonel_green 2009-10-08 02:30 am UTC (link)
	I assumed he meant he was planning to make some major change to the characters (Marvel told Bendis not to use Bullseye in the title for a few years while they were waiting on him, before finally giving the go-ahead for "The Murdock Papers"). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-10-08 07:33 am UTC (link)
	JMS's The Twelve. The actual mini and plot hasn't been finished, htough they've given up enough to start allowing Phantom Reporter to do additional stories. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	comicoz 2009-10-08 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	Who publishes The Twelve? That's the formerly-public-domain-characters-taken-on-a-tangent, right? DC and Marvel both had that going at one point, and I liked one of them and found the other too lackluster. Trying to remember which one was which. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-10-08 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	Hunh. I hadn't heard that. Be interesting to compare them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	aaron_bourque 2009-10-08 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	Uh, no. I think you're thinking of Project Superpowers, but that's always been independent. The Twelve is GA, long-forgotten Marvel characters brought to "the modern day." (Reply to this) (Parent)

halloweenjack
2009-10-08 02:26 am UTC (link)

This was actually not as bad as I thought it might be; it reminds me of the old joke (attributed to Chris Claremont) that the Titanic sank from the weight of time travelers that came to watch it sink. And I thought that Cassaday might have possibly made Ambrose look a little more like Obama than he did originally.

But, yeah, kind of anticlimactic. In fact, when the second-to-last issue was released, I thought that that was the last issue until I read differently on some board or another.

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	colonel_green 2009-10-08 02:31 am UTC (link)
	It's not really a climax; #26 was the climax. This is an epilogue. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	comicoz 2009-10-08 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	Good call. If it doesn't say that on the issue, it should. (Reply to this) (Parent)