Planetary: Crossing Worlds

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Summary: Previously released crossover collection
Review: Crossing Worlds collects three previous Planetary stories, all of them crossovers: Planetary/Authority in which both teams encounter the same evil Lovecraftian threat, then independently repel an invasion from the Bleed; Planetary/JLA where the heroless DC universe is ruled by the very Four-like Planetary corporation and it's up to Clark Kent, Diana Prince and Bruce Wayne to find out why; and lastly Planetary/Batman where the field team meet the Batman during an encounter with the son of Science City Zero survivor in Gotham City.

Planetary/JLA is the only one (seemingly) out of continuity with the series for those that care about that sort of thing. All three are good stories with great art. My only complaint is that each are very brief and could have benefited a great deal from an extra ten or so pages to let the story unfold.

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Summary: Some actual info.
Review: Ellis. I like him, even if he mocks us 'Merkins ruthlessly.

Since there is currently no information about this collection, I'll provide the blurb from www.warrenellis.com:

"Collecting: PLANETARY/THE AUTHORITY: RULING THE WORLD, and PLANETARY/JLA: TERRA OCCULTA and PLANETARY/THE BATMAN: NIGHT ON EARTH. Illustrated by Phil Jiminez and Jerry Ordway and John Cassaday."

I enjoyed the Authority crossover. In presenting the two sets of characters, he maintains the tones of each: the Authority continue to be a god-awful scary group of super heroes and the Planetary field agents continue to squint suspiciously at the world.

I've not read the other issues included in this collection, though I hear that the better, if sad, nod to JLA is in Planetary 10 "Magic and Loss".

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Summary: Some actual info.
Review: Ellis. I like him, even if he mocks us 'Merkins ruthlessly.

Since there is currently no information about this collection, I'll provide the blurb from www.warrenellis.com:

"Collecting: PLANETARY/THE AUTHORITY: RULING THE WORLD, and PLANETARY/JLA: TERRA OCCULTA and PLANETARY/THE BATMAN: NIGHT ON EARTH. Illustrated by Phil Jiminez and Jerry Ordway and John Cassaday."

I enjoyed the Authority crossover. In presenting the two sets of characters, he maintains the tones of each: the Authority continue to be a god-awful scary group of super heroes and the Planetary field agents continue to squint suspiciously at the world.

I've not read the other issues included in this collection, though I hear that the better, if sad, nod to JLA is in Planetary 10 "Magic and Loss".

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Summary: fey, maybe not.
Review: Hate to do this but there's little to no info. Does this trade pick up where the Fourth Man left off, encompassing some of the retro history of Planetary ? (Snow's meeting with Holmes and Co.,the Elders' Song etc). Having trouble determinining if this is something I've read or not.

Thanks.

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Summary: Question- What does this trade encompass ?
Review: Hate to do this but there's little to no info. Does this trade pick up where the Fourth Man left off, encompassing some of the retro history of Planetary ? (Snow's meeting with Holmes and Co.,the Elders' Song etc). Having trouble determinining if this is something I've read or not.

Thanks.

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Summary: fey, maybe not.
Review: lovecraft was definitely a racist, but lots of people were then so its a non-issue.

planetary is good. especially liked the alternate superman/wonderwoman/green lantern story.

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Summary: Not always your usual typical subversive Brit-crap
Review: Reading a Brit's (or Scot's--i.e.: Ellis, Moore, Gaiman, Morrison, and ESPECIALLY Ennis) is like the Sinead/National Anthem debacle or more recently, Alanis/Janet Jackson (...) --we Yanks have to put up with a LOT of other lands' interpretation of our icons/morals thru their subersive/"enlightened" eyeballs for the sake of "art" and "fair play"--without filling up a whole page with my rant, I'll just leave it to several points: first, if they don't respect the medium, why do they continue to write for it? Out of all of my aformentioned examples, only Morrison has seem to snapped out of this juvenile behaviour ("Ooooohh, I'll have my hero vomit on Batman's boots, that'll be a larf and p1ss the fanboys off!") and actually shown the medium some respect as in his JLA and now X-Men stints; second: why MUST all of their female characters be total shrews? Ellis is the most guilty of this as he does write strong female heroes but with their collecive personalities, I wouldn't let them lead a church choir, let alone a team of meta-humans; third, why, when they create their own heroes/worlds, do their hates and predjudices magnify even fiercer? Which brings me to Ellis: I tried to read The Authority as I was swayed by all the media hype (caused mostly by Entertainment Weekly) and it was the most vile piece of garbage I've read since Preacher: Ancient History (I'm sure the last would bring smiles to the respective authors faces, as they loooove to shake things up and see that look on your face), the homosexual relationship was the least of my issues as if it was seriously and tastefully done, it may have surpassed the "Northstar"/"Alpha Flight" issues, but noooooo, let's make them a violent, misanthropic, mincing parody of the Superman/Batman mythos--and if you want violent, misantropic, butch AND fascist, let's talk "Jenny Sparks" from that same title--AAAARRRGGHH! (deep breath) Anyway, it was with some trepidation that I picked up the first issues of the "Planetary" series and I was shocked to find I enjoyed MOST of it--oh you still have the "Beyotch from Hell" in the female hero role, the grumpy old man and last but not least the grunge rocker "hero" Seattle left behind and you still have the usual snotty pickings on our literary and historical lions (H.P. Lovecraft depicted as a fey racist? Oy Vey!) but mostly Ellis can control his Alan Moore-influenced spew (did they go to the same commune?) long enough to craft a honest to God conspiracy epic with, well, KINDA-likable character (altho with this new collection, he is now sliding back into his old habits, as how long is "Elijah Snow" going to physically abuse "The Drummer"?) and some, for once, ENJOYABLE twists (the last "Batman" story in this collection is a must read that literally dropped my jaw and was completely unexpected--in short (too late!), keep it up, Ellis and you may have more of my racist, sexist, puritanical, overfed, world-dominating Yankee dollars going into your shabby little pocket...
P.S.: Forgive my misspellings but I wanted to get the above out of my head and onto the web with no pauses, due to the ill-educated, impatient, coddled Yankee thing...