Planetary: All Over the World and Other Stories
Layers of mystery wrapPlanetary: All over the Worldlike 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 withX-Files-esque secret government tales, and they drive the reader back and forth to collate evidence; the characters can't doallthe 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--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.