Things that happened (or started) between the first and last issues of Planetary:

• The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy
• The Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy
• The X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk and Fantastic Four movies
• Two Pierce Brosnan Bond movies
• The first six Harry Potter movies
• The last five Harry Potter books

• The Twilight series, from conception to completion
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• A Tom Wolfe novel
• President George W Bush
• The War on Terror
• The Euro
• Paris Hilton
• Lindsay Lohan
• The marriage of Jon and Kate, and the births of Plus 8

• Kanye West
• Pop Idol, Survivor, Big Brother UK
• Tina Fey
• CSI - all flavours
• The Wire
• Six Feet Under
• Napster
• Windows XP
• Wikipedia

• Y The Last Man, by Vaughan and Guerra (60 issues)
• 100 Bullets, by Azzarello and Risso (100 issues)
• Robert Kirkman
• Bill Jemas
• Brian Michael Bendis at Marvel
• America’s Best Comics, including The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and JH Williams III’s 32-issue run on Promethea
• 25 issues of Astonishing X-Men, with art by… John Cassaday
• Thunderbolts, Fell, The Authority, Astonishing X-Men, Gravel, and much more from… Warren Ellis
• The ’00s, basically.

Bonus! Things that happened (or started) between the releases of Planetary #26 and Planetary #27:

• President Nicolas Sarkozy
• Prime Minister Gordon Brown
• President Barack Obama (and the entire US election campaign)
• The execution of Saddam Hussein
• Governor Sarah Palin
• Former Governor Sarah Palin

• The Wii
• The PlayStation 3
• The Writers’ Guild of America Strike
• 28 issues of Buffy: Season Eight
• Lady Gaga
• Hulu

• I Can Has Cheezburger?
• The Twitter phenomenon
• Torchwood
• Two Daniel Craig Bond films
• One Harry Potter novel and two Harry Potter films
• The relaunch of Planetary’s host universe, the Wildstorm Universe.
• Twice

The first issue of Planetary hit the stands in May 1999. Planetary #26 came out in October 2006. The final issue, Planetary #27, is due out tomorrow. Fingers crossed!