Comments on: Waiting for Planetary http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Wed, 22 May 2013 20:47:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Johanna Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:06:32 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/#comment-670 I sympathize, Lyle. There’s a fine line between copying something to comment on it and simply copying it to fill pages, and it’s an easy one to cross.

]]> By: Lyle http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/comment-page-1/#comment-654 Lyle Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:32:18 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/#comment-654 I gave up Planetary early-on. After a while, it just got to be too many stand-in characters without enough original story for my tastes. I think I dropped the book after a story about some JLA stand-ins who are easily killed because of their foolish idealism. At that point, I think that was the third Ellis stand-in for the JLA I had seen in a few years’ time and the book was starting to feel like one not worth waiting for.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Johanna Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:38:49 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/#comment-653 Ummm… what? Are you referring to Marvel?

The Planetary stories I remember best are those about Hong Kong action movies and Godzilla, which have nothing to do with any comic company.

]]> By: Dan Coyle http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/comment-page-1/#comment-652 Dan Coyle Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:35:34 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/#comment-652 I stopped reading Planetary when I realized it was a self-serving screed against a company that’s giving Ellis a lot of money.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/comment-page-1/#comment-645 Johanna Fri, 20 Jan 2006 12:09:14 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/#comment-645 I’m not a dedicated fan, so I don’t pay a lot of attention, but I’ve gotten the impression that the other genre parody/recreation aspects have gone away in favor of more straightforward superhero plots and battles.

It’s certainly a fascinating example of how release schedule, both planned and actual, can influence the content of the work, because I don’t believe that the book we’re getting now is the same as the book as originally planned.

]]> By: Matthew Craig http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/comment-page-1/#comment-641 Matthew Craig Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:46:16 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/19/waiting-for-planetary/#comment-641 I haven’t read the linked essay – getting my copy tomorrow – bu-ut…here’s a question:

Part of the series raison d’etre was to reexamine a century’s worth of fantasy fiction, right? I mean, like The Authority, it had that whole fin d’siecle, fin d’Ellis-on-superheroes thing about it. Does that mean that Planetary gets less relevant, the further from the 20th Century we travel? Does anyone else feel that the direction of the series has changed since the hiatus?

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