Planetary

Fantastic Five: Best Batman Team-Ups
Fantastic Five: Best Batman Team-Ups
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our years on the Internet, it’s that there’s no aspect of comics that can’t be broken down and quantified in a single definitive list, preferably in amounts of five or ten. And since there’s no more definitive authority than ComicsAlliance, we’re taking it upon ourselves to compile Top Five lists of everything you could ever want to know about comics. This week the bats are out of the belfry as we look at five of Batman’s greatest team-ups!
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – December 8: Triple Uru Hammer Attack!
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – December 8: Triple Uru Hammer Attack!
Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Speaking in code ^ Young soul rebels % The hammer of the gods ^ % FABLES #100 Vertigo does throw a lot of ideas at the wall, but sometimes they stick, as with this durable take on fairy tales and mythology...
‘Planetary': Digging up the Bones of the Genre Comic
‘Planetary': Digging up the Bones of the Genre Comic
"There are mad and beautiful things beneath the skin of the world we know, that you only see when you look at things on a planetary scale..." -- Warren Ellis, from the original "Planetary" proposal With this week's publication of "Planetary" 27, one of the most articulate and influential superhero comics of the last decade finally spirals to its strange end... Rea
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – October 7: Bloom County, Masterpiece Comics, Gotham City, the Modern World and the End of Planetary
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – October 7: Bloom County, Masterpiece Comics, Gotham City, the Modern World and the End of Planetary
Savage Critic and Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY ¶ One Ellis-door closes, another opens £ Penguins % Swords, S.W.O.R.D., guillotines--they're really just stand-ins for papercuts ¥ Remember: everything that ever happened to Batman is canon, and that includes "Crime and Punishment" * If comics will teach you any
‘Planetary’ #27 Previewed
‘Planetary’ #27 Previewed
Fans have been waiting a long time for the conclusion to "Planetary," and now after nearly three years, they can feast their eyes on the end of an era with pages to the final 27th issue online. The final issue of Warren Ellis and John Cassaday's "Planetary" are up and ready to be previewed over at Wildstorm's The Bleed blog...