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A review by hngisreading
Planetary, Volume 1: All Over the World and Other Stories by Warren Ellis
3.0
Planetary field agents — Jakita Wagner (a bored super-woman), Elijah Snow (super [hot] old guy who can control cold and looks good in all white) and tech controlling weirdo, The Drummer — are Mystery Archeologists. They map “the secret history of the twentieth century” and… keep it a secret?
The first few issues are loosely connected stories of such mysteries: a snowflake that contains the multiverse, guarded by a 100-year-old super-human; a monster island; a ghost cop looking for vengeance; etc etc.
Our trio hunts these mysteries down to catalogue them and keep the secret. The origins of Planetary are shadowy; the people in charger even shadowy-ier. Elijah Snow is not cool with this.
This was mostly fun and interesting. A couple issues fell flat. I felt Elijah’s annoyance—we show up *after* the action most of the time & observe/obscure what’s leftover. But the end started to ramp up, a bit. The more Elijah digs, conspiracy theories abound.
I have a feeling I’m going to be quite confused in future volumes but that’s part of the allure of the multiverse: half of the intrigue is that I don’t know WTF is going on!
The first few issues are loosely connected stories of such mysteries: a snowflake that contains the multiverse, guarded by a 100-year-old super-human; a monster island; a ghost cop looking for vengeance; etc etc.
Our trio hunts these mysteries down to catalogue them and keep the secret. The origins of Planetary are shadowy; the people in charger even shadowy-ier. Elijah Snow is not cool with this.
This was mostly fun and interesting. A couple issues fell flat. I felt Elijah’s annoyance—we show up *after* the action most of the time & observe/obscure what’s leftover. But the end started to ramp up, a bit. The more Elijah digs, conspiracy theories abound.
I have a feeling I’m going to be quite confused in future volumes but that’s part of the allure of the multiverse: half of the intrigue is that I don’t know WTF is going on!