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A review by plaguevacant
The Planetary Omnibus by Warren Ellis
5.0
One of, if the not THE greatest comic series I have read. Period.
Ellis takes a page from Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentleman and does it one better, weaving an entire century's worth of imaginative fiction into a single sweeping story. 30s Pulp heroes, H.G. Wells, Hong Kong action movies, Silver Age comics, Kaiju, Vertigo comics, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Nick Fury, 50s Sci-Fi films, the Lone Ranger, Arthur Clarke's Rama... they are all here, classic figures re-framed by the narrative, both strange and familiar at the same time.
John Cassady's art is amazing, and perfectly creates the truly mind-bending set pieces Ellis imagines. The omnibus is a well-bound package collecting the original series as well as some less interesting crossover comics.
Well worth it, and highly recommended.
Ellis takes a page from Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentleman and does it one better, weaving an entire century's worth of imaginative fiction into a single sweeping story. 30s Pulp heroes, H.G. Wells, Hong Kong action movies, Silver Age comics, Kaiju, Vertigo comics, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Nick Fury, 50s Sci-Fi films, the Lone Ranger, Arthur Clarke's Rama... they are all here, classic figures re-framed by the narrative, both strange and familiar at the same time.
John Cassady's art is amazing, and perfectly creates the truly mind-bending set pieces Ellis imagines. The omnibus is a well-bound package collecting the original series as well as some less interesting crossover comics.
Well worth it, and highly recommended.