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Planetary, Volume 1 by Warren Ellis
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it was ok
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It's hard to rate this book, because I can see where it's going and it looks pretty interesting. Unfortunately, these first 6 issues didn't really deliver. From what I've heard about this series, it's a pretty cool overarching journey. Although I was not completely hooked by this volume, I'd certainly consider checking out the rest.

The series strikes me as a sort of Justice League meets X-Files. From what I can tell so far, this team of people with super powers travel around investigating mysteries of time and space. Each issue presents a new vignette of some weird occurrence somewhere in the world. At first they all seem to be discrete happenings, but it appears that maybe they're somehow all connected.

The characters are interesting. They all have their own unique personalities, though at this point in the story we know very little about them. One of my gripes is that issue 6 establishes a team that will possibly be the series villains (?), but they're essentially a modified Fantastic Four. I appreciate the allusion/homage/whatever, but something about that struck me as lazy.

Like I said, I'm up for reading more of this series. I'm sure there will be a neat payoff in the end. But these first issues are off to a pretty slow start, so I wouldn't blame anyone who didn't feel like sticking around for more.
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February 20, 2010 – Shelved
February 20, 2010 – Shelved as: comics
February 20, 2010 – Finished Reading

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