Art for last issue of Planetary half done

spooydermot

A minor bit of news I guess, but this was on Ellis's blog today:

link here

.....for those who will inevitably ask, John seems to now be into the last half of #27

[Austin Powers] I guess the release date is ...drawing..nearer ? [/Austin Powers]

....I'm sorry....

Rofl Lundgren

Tip of the hat/Wag of the finger to Mr. Powers.

Is it weird that when I saw the post I immediately thought "Maybe the cover's done"?

spooydermot

all the art for the final issue of Planetary is done, save for the cover:

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7148

spooydermot

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7395

Fysh

DC reckon they'll have the issue out sometime in October, apparently. Which means, knowing their trade program, that instead of having the final TPB, a reprint of the Absolute Planetary Volume 1 and a shiny new Volume 2 to match it on sale within, say, 1 month of the final issue's release (to capitalise on the excitement), they'll instead offer an Absolute Planetary Volume 2 (missing 3 issues picked at random), no reprint of Absolute Planetary Volume 1 (because, well, who'd want that? It's not like Ellis has a built-in audience ready to shovel large wads of cash at publishers or anything...) and a TPB in about six years time.

*sigh*

Snoogans

I'm convinced I'll never find out how Planetary actually ends.

spooydermot

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=7560

spooydermot

http://wildstorm.blog.dccomics.com/files/2009/07/planetary27cover_logo-copy-1024x518.jpg

Rofl Lundgren

spooydermot wrote: »

http://wildstorm.blog.dccomics.com/files/2009/07/planetary27cover_logo-copy-1024x518.jpg

Right, now it's time to start re-reading the series in time for this.

spooydermot

http://wildstorm.blog.dccomics.com/2009/08/31/planetary-27-the-preview/