{"id":326,"date":"2013-08-03T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/?p=326"},"modified":"2013-08-03T22:10:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T22:10:08","slug":"planetary-by-warren-ellis-john-cassaday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/2013\/08\/03\/planetary-by-warren-ellis-john-cassaday\/","title":{"rendered":"Planetary by Warren Ellis &#038; John Cassaday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you are familiar with this high water mark of comicdom, but if you are not, do yourself a favor and invest in the trades. I was trying to describe it to a customer earlier today and it&#8217;s tough to totally nutshell. It starts off sort of like an X-Files type situation where weird things are being investigated by a couple of agents. It diverts from there and becomes a much broader type of secret history\/conspiracy with huge leanings on the pulp traditions. It works on more than one level and bears several readings, which is not all that common in most comics. It is a love letter to the pulps by Ellis &#038; Cassaday that still holds up after all these years. Better, in my opinion, than that comic by that guy that they made a movie out of. You hear what I&#8217;m saying. <a href=\"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/planetary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/planetary.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"planetary\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-327\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/planetary.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/planetary-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you are familiar with this high water mark of comicdom, but if you are not, do yourself a favor and invest in the trades. I was trying to describe it to a customer earlier today and it&#8217;s tough to totally nutshell. It starts off sort of like an X-Files type situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oq0r-5g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memphiscomics.com\/wps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}