(And before Ellis fans start crowding in and saying O NO HES NOT TRANSMETROPOLITAN PLANETARY FROTH FROTH FROTHATTHEMOUTH, all I can say is, you really needed to be around during the last months of the old Warren Ellis Forum on Delphi, when he was ragging on superhero comics and the people who write and read them--which was, probably not coincidentally, around the time that JLA/Planetary and Batman/Planetary were published.)