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Layers of mystery wrap Planetary: All over the World like rice candy. Follow the enigmatic heroes Jakita Wagner, Elijah Snow, and the Drummer as they excavate the secret history of the world from its wealth of bizarre happenings. Though the characterization isn't sparklingly brilliant--the "insane" Drummer behaves more like the A-Team's Murdock than a believable madman--the stories are both broad and deep, exploring a web of conspiracies and shadowy superheroes that manipulate and "protect" our world. Clever retellings of primal comics myths are interlaced with X-Files-esque secret government tales, and they drive the reader back and forth to collate evidence; the characters can't do all the work. Illustrator John Cassaday mirrors Warren Ellis's script from circumspect to sublime, befitting the best successor yet to the pulp comics of the 1940s. --Rob Lightner
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Layers of mystery wrap Planetary: All over the World like rice candy. Follow the enigmatic heroes Jakita Wagner, Elijah Snow, and the Drummer as they excavate the secret history of the world from its wealth of bizarre happenings. Though the characterization isn't sparklingly brilliant--the "insane" Drummer behaves more like the A-Team's Murdock than a believable madman--the stories are both broad and deep, exploring a web of conspiracies and shadowy superheroes that manipulate and "protect" our world. Clever retellings of primal comics myths are interlaced with X-Files-esque secret government tales, and they drive the reader back and forth to collate evidence; the characters can't do all the work. Illustrator John Cassaday mirrors Warren Ellis's script from circumspect to sublime, befitting the best successor yet to the pulp comics of the 1940s. --Rob Lightner
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting idea flatly carried out,
By E. Thomas Erickson "viking_kittens" (Orlando, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Planetary VOL 01: All Over the World and Other Stories (Paperback)
I like the premise behind this book, which I won't get into since 22 other people have already fleshed that out, as I usually like Ellis' ideas. Yet plans and their executions are two different things entirely (think episode 1). Now I will admit that most of the classic characters encountered in "All over the world and other Stories" were lost to me and I had to look them up online after reading, but that doesn't change my opinion upon reading them with this knowledge. The fact remains that the dialogue is poor, character development ZERO (minus a bit by Elijah Snow), and stories only brushed over instead of developed. This treatment of the individual plots made them seem so cheap. As for the idea that Ellis has good ideas but poor(er) execution, check out Mek where the central idea is cool but it comes off as cheap and cliché. Also to be noted here is the fact that Planetary was already done by The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The subjects differeent, basic idea the same though. Approach this book with a taste for fairly shallow, quick, entertainment, not a taste for high adventure, stellar writing, or deep character and other development.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good concept, but . . . .,
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This review is from: Planetary VOL 01: All Over the World and Other Stories (Paperback)
Alan Moore's introduction promises more than this collection delivers. However, there's enough here to suggest the series will develop and it would be premature to dismiss "Planetary" entirely on the basis on this one book. These first six issues (collected) establish the formula for the series, but neglect to develop the three main characters. Try "Planetary" only after you've exhausted Moore's own work.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cross your fingers,
By "yogsothoth666" (Saturn VB) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Planetary VOL 01: All Over the World and Other Stories (Paperback)
If Ellis manages to finish this series and pulls off what he's hinting at in this book and its sequel, this series will be equal to Talbot's Adventures of Luther Arkwright. (Some wag named Don Ersperm said Talbot wrote the pinnacle.) This is top-notch insanity by one of the most focused brains in comics.The art is science fiction Art Nouveau, which makes it utterly unlike anything else in comics. Nobody comes close to Cassaday in illustration in comics. I really hope DC publishes the final package in one of those oversized hard cover volumes that Marvel's making now.
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