The characters explored at least half a dozen genres arising out of and pertaining to the follow:įirst, mainstream American superhero comic books – DC Comics’ superhero character properties ( Superman, Captain Marvel / Shazam, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern) and, too briefly, its Crisis on Infinitie Earths reboot: and Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk. Featuring an overarching global conspiracy orchestrated by evil stand-ins of Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four (in Planetary, called, simply, The Four), the comic was otherwise expressly archeological in its purposes. The irony of exploring a comic book which explored other comic books was not lost on us. This is a comic book series which ran intermittently from 1999 to 2009, published by WildStorm, an imprint of American comic book publisher DC Comics. We had for some time been seeking to revisit Planetary.
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