In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to February 1999 to see the debut of Planetary, Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s brilliant exploration of the multiverse, and thus, popular culture itself. The Wildstorm comic book universe saw a massive shift in 1996 when Warren Ellis took over writing duties on Stormwatch. Stormwatch had been one of the longest-running series at Wildstorm. It was an international superhero team tied to the United Nations and led by Harry Bendix, the “Weatherman” of Stormwatch. Bendix was not a field leader, though. That honor went to Jackson King, the psionic hero known as Battalion. Stormwatch went on a number of pretty normal superhero adventures for a few years until Warren Ellis was brought on board with Stormwatch #37 and was basically told to do whatever he wanted. He introduced the concept of different factions of Stormwatch. Stormwatch Prime, the “main” team, Stormwatch Red, the members with the most destructive powers (so that they could be called in for heavy-duty attacks) and Stormwatch Black, a covert black ops team.The very rough tie between Planetary and The Authority was the idea that 1999 was the end of the 20th Century, and so the power of the 20th Century was central to Ellis’ stories, as The Authority was led by Jenny Sparx, a woman who had lived for the entire 20th Century, and so, too, in Planetary #1, we meet Elijah Snow, a man who had ALSO lived throughout the entire 20th Century. He is recruited by a woman named Jakita Wagner to come work for the organization known as Planetary, a group the explores universal mysteries, “Archaeologists of the impossible.”
In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head back to February 1999 to see the debut of Planetary, Warren Ellis and John Cassaday’s brilliant exploration of the multiverse, and thus, popular culture itself.
The Wildstorm comic book universe saw a massive shift in 1996 when Warren Ellis took over writing duties on Stormwatch. Stormwatch had been one of the longest-running series at Wildstorm. It was an international superhero team tied to the United Nations and led by Harry Bendix, the “Weatherman” of Stormwatch. Bendix was not a field leader, though. That honor went to Jackson King, the psionic hero known as Battalion. Stormwatch went on a number of pretty normal superhero adventures for a few years until Warren Ellis was brought on board with Stormwatch #37 and was basically told to do whatever he wanted. He introduced the concept of different factions of Stormwatch. Stormwatch Prime, the “main” team, Stormwatch Red, the members with the most destructive powers (so that they could be called in for heavy-duty attacks) and Stormwatch Black, a covert black ops team.
The very rough tie between Planetary and The Authority was the idea that 1999 was the end of the 20th Century, and so the power of the 20th Century was central to Ellis’ stories, as The Authority was led by Jenny Sparx, a woman who had lived for the entire 20th Century, and so, too, in Planetary #1, we meet Elijah Snow, a man who had ALSO lived throughout the entire 20th Century. He is recruited by a woman named Jakita Wagner to come work for the organization known as Planetary, a group the explores universal mysteries, “Archaeologists of the impossible.”
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