One of my favorite graphic series in recent years is Warren Ellis' Planetary. It's one of the rare series where each issue is an entirely self-contained story, but come together to form an engaging, thought-provoking, surprising, and entertaining whole. It rewards subsequent reads with subtle and not-so-subtle call backs and payoffs across the entire run.
Like most fantastic graphic novels or comic series not called Watchmen or Sandman, I came to the party almost a decade late on this one, so I had the great pleasure of reading Planetary from start to . . . well, not quite to finish, because it's been sitting around in its not-quite-done-but-tantalizingly-close state for just a little bit.
According to Warren Ellis, the end of the waiting begins today:
"Almost ten years to the month that John Cassaday and I had our first conversation at San Diego about creating a new series: I have just completed and delivered the full script for PLANETARY #27, the final issue of the series."
He's posted the contents of the first page of the final issue on his blog, which will provoke nerdgasms in some, head scratches in others. I am the former.
