Inter-Planetary
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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!