![]() ![]() ![]() But this is no mere pastiche – Ellis both subverts and elevates the elements he takes, making them fit perfectly his own epic vision." More specifically, the book's primary concern is unearthing the confluence of influences that led to the idea of The Superhero as our modern culture now knows it. ![]() ![]() Or as Joss Whedon put it far more eloquently in his introduction to the series' second collection, "Warren Ellis draws inspiration from so many cultural wellsprings that his work truly does become a sort of history of the twentieth century as it exists in popular fiction. In short, Planetary exists as a celebratory history of 20th Century Pop Fiction. Planetary is built on a deceptively simple premise that becomes strikingly more impressive the more the story unfolds: the most famous and iconic elements and characters from popular 20th Century fiction exist secretly in some form or another in the series' universe, and it's up to the titular organization – and its four figureheads Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner, the Drummer and Ambrose Chase – to unearth those elusive artifacts and figures and connect them into a secret history of the 20th Century. ![]()
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