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A review by hngisreading
Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
4.0
Do I understand 100% of what happened? Nope! Was it a hell of a ride? Yep!
This is one of those “trust the process” series which I think would annoy a fair amount of readers. Ellis is asking his readers to have faith that all the pieces are going to fall into place. And they do… sort of.
I still think think this could’ve been condensed and that some of the storylines/scenes were just posturing and cramming in as many big words and scientific terms as possible. But, I do feel like the ending was satisfying.
What it comes down to: who has information & what they do with it.
The four? The big bad. Hoard information to make themselves more powerful. Sell out humanity for powers. Planetary, more specifically Snow, is a threat to this.
Planetary seeks out information for information’s sake. The mysteries of the universe. They want to keep it strange. Snow starts to see the flaws in this, though. We see this change at the end with the sharing of information with the masses.
I think some characters could’ve been introduced sooner, some not all. Some storylines should’ve been explored more, others left behind. Regardless, a wild sci-fi romp that will probably take several reads to full *get* and even then… I’m sure I’ll be missing something.
This is one of those “trust the process” series which I think would annoy a fair amount of readers. Ellis is asking his readers to have faith that all the pieces are going to fall into place. And they do… sort of.
I still think think this could’ve been condensed and that some of the storylines/scenes were just posturing and cramming in as many big words and scientific terms as possible. But, I do feel like the ending was satisfying.
What it comes down to: who has information & what they do with it.
The four? The big bad. Hoard information to make themselves more powerful. Sell out humanity for powers. Planetary, more specifically Snow, is a threat to this.
Planetary seeks out information for information’s sake. The mysteries of the universe. They want to keep it strange. Snow starts to see the flaws in this, though. We see this change at the end with the sharing of information with the masses.
I think some characters could’ve been introduced sooner, some not all. Some storylines should’ve been explored more, others left behind. Regardless, a wild sci-fi romp that will probably take several reads to full *get* and even then… I’m sure I’ll be missing something.