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I saw the last issue of Planetary (the fight with the last two of the Four) described on ebay as the final issue.
That isn't right is it? They still have to save whats-his-name from the Negative Zone or wherever he is.
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There was supposed to be another issue.
An epilogue issue. This was a year ago.
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yeah. ellis's blog hasn't revealed a whole lot about it, but there's supposed to be one more episode wrapping up what planetary did after getting rid of the 4, how they saved or tried to save ambrose chase, and so on. I'm gonna have to hunt for some more updates...
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actually Ellis posted a bulletin after the last issue went out saying the book was finished.
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There was supposed to be another issue.
An epilogue issue. This was a year ago. Jubarg is on the money: Wednesday, October 25, 2006
For The PLANETARY Freaks In The Audience...
...of which there appear to be many thousands, judging by my MySpace email: listen. I'm sick of repeating this to everyone.
PLANETARY #26 is out today. It ends the story. There'll be a single epilogue/bookend issue out in the early part of next year. And that's it. The story proper ends today. There is no more. Just an epilogue that'll be along in a handful of months. I'm assuming the "epilogue" is DOA as it has been about a year since it was allegedly going to arrive and there's been no mention of it since.
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They should just release an Absolute edition with the damn manuscript. This thing is never coming out and #26 finished on a somewhat cliffhanger. It'd be nice for us fans to have some closure besides that weak death of the Four.
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according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_%28comics%29
Planetary #1-27 (issue #27 is due sometime in 2008 and the script is finished and delivered according to Warren Ellis's blog[18])
ellis' blog:
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.
I am now going to get drunk and find something to have sex with. I'm home alone, so the chinchilla has a right to look nervous.
Done. Never ask me anything about it again. DONE.
-- W
i'm more looking forward to the 4th tpb. it's hard to reread the series when after the 3rd volume I need to dig through single issues full of ads...also i'm still missing about 3 issues that would cost about $5-$15 each.
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Easy to pick up single issues on ebay.
I'm a little peeved at Ellis. at first the delays were blamd upon his poor health. But now, given his quite substantial output on other titles - and a novel - including non-creator works at Marvel, it seems more likely he just entirely lost interest in the work and gives the impression he finished it only under reader- and editorial pressure.
I suppose I shouldn't complain. At least its finished. But there is only one thing worse than a non-completed story and that's one which takes years instead of months to finish. But I guess it'd be different if he wasn't prepared to release it until it was picture perfect. The end of the Four wasn't especially clever, and I'm now starting to dread what happens to Ambrose Chase.
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Six months later...
This really, really sucks.
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I gave up on Ellis years ago. Something happened to him after his "sickness". He just lost the touch, and rants empty phrases. He's a ghost of the madman that gave us Transmet and Authority. He's no longer relevant, and the piss-poor ending to Planetary more than proved that...
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the minute that you saw CK,BW, and diana prince in planetary as elseworlds version of them,selves was the day that planetary jumped the shark.
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I have to say I enjoyed his Extremis arc in Iron Man.
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But most of that was the art.
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I just got finished reading this! For the most part, it was very good.
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The slow burn build-up hasn't helped. It wasn't intentional, because I think Ellis just lost interest in the title, but everyone kept expecting better and better things, and generally getting better and better issues when Elis could be bothered doing them. And then... the last issue. Pah. There's this:
Signs of Life!
Issue 27, the "epilogue" issue of the series, has finally been completed. Ellis, in a June 10th Bad Signal, stated the following:
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.
I am now going to get drunk and find something to have sex with. I'm home alone, so the chinchilla has a right to look nervous.
Done. Never ask me anything about it again. DONE.
-- W
which is from here:http://home.earthlink.net/~rkkman/frames/index.html and script:
Written, delivered, and the first page of script looks like this:
PAGE ONE
Pic 1
Three page-wide pics: The Planetary Building, NYC, in the afternoon sun, like a bright glass needle poked into the middle of Manhattan:
JAGGED (NO TAIL)
- RUSH TRIALS OF THE SO-CALLED "ANTI-CANCER" TREATMENT DEVELOPED BY THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION -
JAGGED (NO TAIL)
- NEW YORK OFFICES OF THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION TODAY DEMONSTRATED A CHEAP ELECTRICAL LEVITATION SYSTEM WITH APPLICATIONS IN -
JAGGED (NO TAIL)
- NEW ORLEANS, THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION'S "SUPER- FABBER" FOR GENERATING INSTANT TEMPORARY SHELTERS -
Pic 2
INT. CORRIDOR: people rushing both ways down the corridor, carrying files, stacks of paper, tablet computers, busy busy busy...
JAGGED (NO TAIL)
- LEGAL CHALLENGES TO THE PLANETARY ORGANISATION'S "LIFE STATIONS," COMMUNITY DEVICES THAT PROVIDE WATER, BASIC PROTEIN, HEATING AND LIGHT FOR FREE -
JAGGED (NO TAIL)
- TOWARDS THE END OF ITS NINE-MONTH VOYAGE TO MARS, CARRYING, MOST FAMOUSLY, THE PLANETARY SOCIETY'S "QUNET" DEVICE FOR INSTANT COMMUNICATION ACROSS DEEP SPACE -
JAGGED (NO TAIL)
- PLANETARY SOCIETY'S "HYPER-COLLIMATION" SHEETS, CARBON FABRICS THAT BECOME BOMBPROOF SHIELDS -
Pic 3
INT: BIG LECTURE HALL: where the DRUMMER addresses a room full of techies all holding tablet computers - behind him, a wall-size flat-panel display of computer file folders, arranged almost like the petals of a chrysanthemum:
DRUMMER
- INTO FILES TEN THOUSAND TO TEN NINE HUNDRED NINETY NINE. THAT'S THE TWENTY PERCENT MARK.
DRUMMER
ONE YEAR, TWENTY PERCENT OF THE RANDALL DOWLING DATABASE EXPLORED.
DRUMMER
ELIJAH'S GOING INSANE OVER THIS. I'M KEEPING YOU COVERED, BUT, SERIOUSLY, DEPARTMENT HEADS, YOU NEED TO CONSIDER HIRING MORE BODIES -
So the script was finished a year ago to the day, today. Where be the comic? I still liked my idea (and not just because it was my idea) as a better ending: Snow was actually Randall Dowling, who had copied Snow's form (as a gooey rubber shape-shifter) and stolen Snow's memories to better effect his infiltration of Planetary, before dumping Snow's body in a pit somewhere (which would have been much more the Four's style). But the memory dump hasn't quite worked. Snow's sheer bloody-minded character embodied in those memories repeatedly over-rides Dowling's personality leading to Snow's residual personality forcing Dowling to kill himself. More tragic, more heroic, and an explanation as to why the Four kept Snow alive after they captured him (they didn't keep him alive, they replaced him with a spy). Anyway... the earlier issues are good so at least we'll always have Paris in the springtime.
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Planetary #27 to ship from DC/Wildstorm in October: John Cassaday announced to the live audience of the 200th Comics News Insider podcast that the long awaited final epilogue issue of the superhero archeology series Planetary would be published in October.
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And the world shrugged.
I mean, seriously. Could they piss over this series more? it would've been awesome if their level of procrastination didn't make me look fastidious...
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Planetary is a great book, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, but Ellis' lack of respect for fans of the book has turned me off of his works. Other than Anna Mercury, I haven't bought or read anything by Ellis in a few years because you can feel his contempt for Planetary whenever he had to talk about it. Sure, I bet he was sick of talking about it, but that's his own fault that it was so late we all had to wait for Cassiday to free up enough time to draw it. He should scrotum up and say "sorry guys" whenever it comes up instead of his usual "drop the fucking subject you shit-eye!". I'm buying it, if nothing more than to finish the set and JC art.
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Planetary is a great book, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, but Ellis' lack of respect for fans of the book has turned me off of his works. Other than Anna Mercury, I haven't bought or read anything by Ellis in a few years because you can feel his contempt for Planetary whenever he had to talk about it. Sure, I bet he was sick of talking about it, but that's his own fault that it was so late we all had to wait for Cassiday to free up enough time to draw it. He should scrotum up and say "sorry guys" whenever it comes up instead of his usual "drop the fucking subject you shit-eye!". I'm buying it, if nothing more than to finish the set and JC art.  Any idea why Ellis hated his own book that much?
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Planetary is a great book, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, but Ellis' lack of respect for fans of the book has turned me off of his works. Other than Anna Mercury, I haven't bought or read anything by Ellis in a few years because you can feel his contempt for Planetary whenever he had to talk about it. Sure, I bet he was sick of talking about it, but that's his own fault that it was so late we all had to wait for Cassiday to free up enough time to draw it. He should scrotum up and say "sorry guys" whenever it comes up instead of his usual "drop the fucking subject you shit-eye!". I'm buying it, if nothing more than to finish the set and JC art. Any idea why Ellis hated his own book that much? I don't think it was the book. It was people constantly wanting to know when the book was coming out.
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And the world shrugged.
I mean, seriously. Could they piss over this series more? yeah, they could do to it what they've done to the rest of the Wildstorm books. Let's not give Levitz any ideas, mmkay? 
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