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Planetary T.05 (2000)

by Warren Ellis(Favorite Author)

4.46 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

2809413495 (ISBN13: 9782809413496)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

series

Planetary

review 1: A friend who works in a comic book store gave me this series to read back in 2006, I think. I loved them. It might have been some of my first exposure to Warren Ellis. Back before I was a fan of his who specifically hunts down anything new he writes.I read the first book, and the second, and the third... Then I tried to buy the fourth book. But I couldn't. The series had apparently been canceled or abandoned back in 2004. I went back to the friend and said to him, "If you ever get me started on a series that you *know* has been canceled. We are going to have a problem." I was not best pleased. Luckly, this fourth and final book of the series came out in 2010. Allowing me to finish the story arc I so loved. What's more, I no longer felt the desire to choke my comic-recommen... moreding friend.
review 2: SPOILERSI've never read a series from start to finish and left wondering what the hell it was all supposed to be about. In this final book (four volumes, who knew?) the evil Fantastic Four are diminished in number and then taken out by Planetary, while we discover their motives - something I'm still not clear about. They sold out the planet to a group of paranoid eternal post-humans or something? But if this Earth is one of so many and doesn't mean anything, then why does it mean something to these post-humans?Their friend Ambrose who was killed in a previous volume is brought back in a mind-bending and utterly confusing epilogue - he was trapped in a time bubble of his own creation that made him invisible to time so they built a time machine to bring him back...?Warren Ellis also riffs on the Lone Ranger and Green Hornet characters (called something else of course) and we learn more about the evil Fantastic Four (also called something else) as well as a giant human god or something. Oh yeah and space angels and a chapter that will make you feel like you're on psychedelics.It might be because I'm not a huge sci-fi fan, but Ellis takes the reader on such a bizarre trip through time and space with these characters that even at the end I'm still scratching my head as to what it was all about. I thought the way Planetary finally defeated evil Mr Fantastic and Sue Storm was a bit uninspired (and again totally perplexing) but despite looking back on the stories and realising that while I was reading them I felt that I understood them but really didn't, I still really enjoyed the journey.Ellis and artist John Cassaday produce such a massive canvas and convey a story of such an epic scope that it's inspiring and awesome to behold. The artwork is truly impressive and is easily Cassaday's best work (he won an Eisner for his art in this book) and there's even some back story to Drummer, a character I've felt up until now to be poorly underwritten."Planetary" is a comic book series that might be understood by acid casualties and mental patients exclusively but I feel glad to have been an observer to the strange thoughts of Warren Ellis. It's definitely his most weird work but definitely worth a look for comics fans everywhere. less

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Billy

The final, and largest volume of the reprinted series ends the group's war with The Four, giving the series its only two-parter, and bringing in big questions, like the nature of reality (turns out, their world is a 2D world based on information, meaning they are literally fictional characters and haven't quite realized it yet), and revealing not only what The Four is supposed to be doing, but also what Elijah Snow's ultimate purpose is as a "century baby". The series ends, not with The Four's ultimate defeat (which comes a chapter earlier) but rather with a math-and-physics-heavy rescue mission. A well-done series best read in whole.

Ivan

The fourth and final volume of the Planetary collection did not quite live up to the promise of the first three volumes for me. As always, I enjoyed the references to other influences - this time we had the Lone Ranger, Nick Fury, and others - and the fabulous art work by Cassaday. Unfortunately, the violence got a little too graphic and over the top for me, and the concepts got a little too far out. It was still fun, but I didn't get the same kick out of it that I did when reading the earlier volumes.

_nicoleng

One of the finest comic book series' I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Period.

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