Planetary (comics)

Planetary is an American comic Maxi series of comic book writer Warren Ellis and John Cassaday cartoonist from the Wildstorm -Verlag.

Planetary has been involved from the author Warren Ellis firmly into the Wildstorm universe. As the series also often set in the past, so a lot of sensitivity was required in order not to interfere with the continuity of the other series. Again and again there is overlap with other series, about a crossover with The Authority. Their leader Jenny Sparks is directly or indirectly occur several times elsewhere in the present series and other characters in the Wildstorm universe - often indirectly - on. One could describe the agents of the Planetary even as an observer, as a documentary of the activities of other super beings in the Wildstorm universe. They, however, remain generally operate in the background while the other figures.

But not only pure content Planetary follows an extraordinary concept. As a kind of mystery series within the superhero genre, Planetary is such a thing as archaeologist / detective / task forces organization whose protagonists are each issue again at the center or sometimes more on the edge of rather short stories, similar to the the form Files puzzle pieces for a great whole - TV series the X-Files. Here are deliberately quoted from the creators of the comic book series in each issue various motifs or characters from the fantastic literature and film history or imitated. So, in the individual stories as well as variations of cartoon characters of the big publishers DC Comics and Marvel one (about the JLA or the Fantastic Four ), a story takes place on the island of the Japanese cult monster movies like Godzilla, there are references to the works of Jules Verne, typical US-Grusel/SciFi-Filme the 50s or the 2001 classic movie, and others. It is also every time inspired the title pages motif greatly from issue to issue in varying style of each booklet to the content and its influences.

The Planetary

This is Planetary: Three people walk the earth, to look for oddities and wonders out. They can bring things to light that would be better left undiscovered. There are archaeologists of the impossible to eviscerate the deepest heart of the Earth and map the secret confines of a fantastic world. This is Planetary.

It describes the author Warren Ellis himself in the introduction, which is provided to each hilt first.

Elijah Snow founded the Planetary as documentarians of strange events, as a chronicler of the Sense of Wonder. The organization have unlimited financial resources available. The field team is traveling around the world and is solid teams all over the world - support - which are often made ​​many years in coming. In most cases, the Planetary only observed, documented and collects information, but sometimes the organization also engages actively.

The protagonists

• Elijah Snow

• Jakita Wagner

• The drummer

• Ambrose Chase

The history

Issue 1: The Far Side of the World

It all starts with the fact that in 1998 Jakita Wagner and Elijah Snow meet in a diner in the middle of the desert. Snow has spent the last few years. He can no longer remember many events from his past. Wagner makes him the offer for a secret organization, the Planetary to work. He gets it to his death, no matter how long he has been working for the organization, a million dollars a year. Snow assumes, however, primarily because it assured him that all references to his person in all archives and databases in the world - even in secret - will be wiped out.

After the somewhat rundown Snow was transformed into an ordinary man, he meets the organization's headquarters on the third man on the team (Snow: drummer we use here about code name What's your name, boy - Drummer: ? Drummer first name The. Last drummer ). Without much preparation it is already the first order. In the Adirondacks, an obvious of created by people cavity was discovered in a mountain massif in exploratory work, but to which access can not be found. The team finds the access. It turns out that here was the headquarters of a secret society of supermen from the 1940s. To the surprise of the team you can find leaders of this union, Doctor Axel Brass currently alive. He tells them that he here waiting for rescue since 1945.

He tells them of their last meeting that was held here in January 1945. Since 1940, they use computer technology. However, they have now developed a potential new technique in which a quantum computer has been created which can be expected simultaneously, not serially as in the previous binary technology. This then -created quantum brain could include all possible realities in his calculations. Turning on the computer, a kind of virtual copy of reality: A Snowflake in 196.833 -dimensional space. Rotated each of the elements there and with each rotation will create new worlds and pass in rapid succession. It is the multiverse. Save the world now would be a trifle. Only they have not thought of: In the created parallel worlds, there is also life. And from this earth, who is nearing demise, they are attacked by super-beings. You can fend off the attack with his last strength, with all die except Brass.

Brass is transferred to a hospital of the Planetary and the organization is now in the possession of the computer and of new knowledge.

Comments

Author of the original investment at 25 issues Maxi Series is Brit Warren Ellis. He supplemented his previous work here in the Wildstorm Universe Stormwatch and The Authority with a completely different kind of story. For the drawings and the inking John Cassaday is responsible, the draw offer Planetary immediately assumed he was looking for just such a project. Most books are colored by the main colorist of the Wildstorm publishers, Laura Depuy.

The German license edition of U.S. books published up to number 21 in the comic publishing m / g publishing. However, this was in 2005 insolvent. Neither the successor publisher Infinity Paper work nor the comic publisher Infinity ( publisher), who wanted to continue the series originally got the license for continuation of the series in Germany, as the mother publisher of WildStorm, DC Comics, in Germany licenses only to the big publishers Panini Ehapa Carlsen or assigns. By the end of m / g publishing the first 21 books and a crossover were brought out with The Authority. In positive reactions came the translation of Christian Langhagen. As it goes with Planetary in Germany has long been questionable. Panini finally published in 2011 to mark the Comic Action in Essen the missing issues # 22-27 in one volume.

A very important stylistic device and identifying the series are the covers of the comics. Other than is usual, each cover is individually designed. Plays an issue in Japan, a manga -like style is used plays a booklet in Australia, recalls the magazine on Aboriginal art, playing a magazine in Hong Kong, remind the Cover on a poster for a film from Hong Kong. Not only that Cover is adjusted, and the lettering is variable and never the same. Sometimes it is also possible to dispense entirely sure. The recognition effect in this series should be that the covers are so individual that they automatically assigns Planetary.

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