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What, so nobody reads Planetary any more?
Well, I am trying... but what with (still!) missing an #13, because of an oddity on eBay (  /  ), I'm loath to read the later ones... that and time constraints. 
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Re: Planetary #16 is here (at LONG last)
Just got the 17 today I'll let you know what I think when I've read it.
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Re: Planetary..
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What, so nobody reads Planetary any more?
Well, I am trying... but what with (still!) missing an #13, because of an oddity on eBay ( / ), I'm loath to read the later ones... that and time constraints.
Which one's 13? The one where Snow meets the League of Extraordinary Gent... er, where he meets the group of 19th Century literary characters when he was a young man? It's a great story, but it's not in any sequential order. Go ahead and read the ones after it.
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Unseen Thirteen
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Which one's 13? The one where Snow meets the League of Extraordinary Gent... er, where he meets the group of 19th Century literary characters when he was a young man?
Errr......
Planetary #13
Yes. Serena McKellan and so on..
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It's a great story, but it's not in any sequential order. Go ahead and read the ones after it.
OK, fair enough.. when I finish my essays.. 
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Re: Planetary #16 is here (at LONG last)
Finally read Planetary 17.Not a bad issue,it would have been nice to see the begins of the fight against the Four,but at least we saw the secret origin of Jakita Wagner,and her relation to the Planetary Universes version of Tarzan.
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Re: Planetary #16 is here (at LONG last)
Kobe notes that: "It's a great story, but it's not in any sequential order. Go ahead and read the ones after it"
This is just the problem with the Planetary series... Planetary is the I-Ching of comics, toss the box in the air and read them randomly in the order that they fall on the floor. You could read them backwards for all the continuity there is.
I did read 17, which was sort of fun, but I'm really getting tired of waiting for the main event.
If this were a rock concert I'd be stomping my feet and lighting matches...so it better be a good denoument, especially to make up for those insipid and lame cross-continuity stories with Superman & Co.
On a JLA/Avengers note...I did read and enjoy #2 and am looking forward to where Kurt and George are going with this. They've got me wondering...in all senses...just like I did when I first read these comics as a kid. I'm really enjoying the series, something I can't say about 'The Authority' for instance, which I have abandoned as a one-trick pony that has become intensely boring in that Image Comics way.
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Re: Planetary #16 is here (at LONG last)
Actually (and this is an issue a lot --if not MOST-- people disagree with me), I actually enjoyed the HELL out of Planetary BEFORE we learned there was an overarching story (Planetary vs. The Four). I just assumed it would be a series of one-shots where the "archaelogists of the impossible" kept running up with the various literary/comic-book archetypes of the Twentieth Century. THEN we found out about The Four and, sure, I want to see Snow and the gang kick their butts, but, really, isn't that a foregone conclusion? I find much more interesting the way Ellis keeps playing with the pulp archetypes, which is why I really enjoyed the latest isue, even if it didn't advance the story against The Four. And though I pretty much knew it was going to be the Secret Origin of Jakita even before I read it, I didn't expect Tarzan... er Lord whatever being the culprit.
Regarding the Authority/JLA/Batman crossovers, I couldn't agree more with you. They stunk to high heaven.
I'm surprised you're still buying the current version of the Authority. I gave up after issue one (which doesn't happen often).
For reasons too long and numerous to name here I haven't yet bought JLA/Avengers #2, so PLEASE no spoilers.
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Re: Planetary #16 is here (at LONG last)
Actually that was a point well made Kob27,issue 17 was really a throwback to the earlier issues of Planetary when we were seeing this post modern tack on the history of comic and pulp heroes.I always preferred Planetary to The Authority.As at least the Planetary characters are likable.The "heroes" of The Authority were just of bunch of big headed opinionated "superyobs".None of them were likable and I just wanted them to get there comeuppance.
Still with any luck Lobo may be the one to do it.And give these PC "heroes" a good sorting out.
With any luck I should be getting JLA/Avengers 3 tomorrow. 
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Cross over Crosssovers
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Regarding the Authority/JLA/Batman crossovers, I couldn't agree more with you. They stunk to high heaven.
Hmmm..... Authority, ye-es. JLA.. sort of. The Batman one was alright, though! 
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For reasons too long and numerous to name here I haven't yet bought JLA/Avengers #2, so PLEASE no spoilers.
.... oh, alright!
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Re: Planetary #16 is here (at LONG last)
The mistake has been fixed and I have now both #2 and #3 of JLA/Avengers.
Feel free to discuss about them at length (since you guys were refraining yourselves from doing it because of my plea, right? RIGHT?)
Maybe it's time for a NEW thread.
Incidentally, anybody here read about Titan Books latest offering? They're putting out the earliest Modesty Blaise comic strips in TPB form. Since I've been looking for the original reprint TPBs they did twenty years ago, this is welcome news to me. Anyone here a fan of the prose novels?
(And in a bit of unnerving synchronicity, they just showed that godawful movie they did about Modesty in the 60s with Monica Vitti last night. It's so bad I actually enjoyed it in a Ed Wood kinfd of way) .
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