Planetary #1: All Over The World
Created by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: John Cassaday
Colours: Laura Depuy with thanks to David Baron
Letters: Bill O'Neil
Editor: John Layman

What Happened:
Planetary #1 introduces the three main characters of Planetary: Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner and The Drummer. There is also some explaination to what Planetary, as an organisation, is all about.

The Planetary group then investigate a mysterious complex of caves in the Adirondack mountains. They find a man with crippled legs who has been guarding the cave for the last fourty or years, without sleep, without food, without ageing and without dying. He's not protecting the cave though, but rather what is in the cave.

As it turns out the man is Axel Brass, an adventurer and scientist, who along with a group of covert superhereos sought to save the world by creating a "multiverse machine", the purpose of which was to cycle through all of the possible earths and superimpose it on the present. But, something went wrong.

Comments:
A fairly good start to the series, the characters and story were very good and I felt diappointed when the read was over. Anway onto the...

Good points: First of all, this was a big improvement on the Preview issue, the main problems I had with that issue were fixed here. Firstly, the art was great, the pencils and the colouring looked great on every page. The story was interesting, the way that you learn about the main characters through their interaction is unforced and makes them seem interesting.

The 'investigation' of this issue is great! I really liked the idea of Axel Brass protecting the cave for so long. That's real heroism. And also quite tragic.

The final thing I think that is great about this issue is that there seems like there is so many things going on and that there are so many good ideas hinted at. It really makes me want to read the next issue.

Bad Points: The only bad point is that while the character interaction is good, I find that I quite dislike the members of Planetary at the moment. This may change and I hope it does.