JLA/Planetary & a question

[tishooo]

Hi everyone

This is my first post to the community - other than the occasional comment on v1.0 and v2.0. I am curious to know whether you might have any good ideas as to what I ought to do with a couple of long boxes worth of old comics.





Some of my comics date back to the early 80s, but most are more recent ones - with a DC bias. Most of them I also now have in TPB format.

To be honest, some of them probably have some value (eg some variants and sought after runs) - and some I will keep for sentimental reasons (incl. the lack of TPB availability - eg Linda Danvers Supergirl) - but I am currently cash rich time-poor (and storage-poor!) and just want rid of them.

Now, the kicker is that I am based in Scotland, so comics are even less popular here than in North America. I was thinking of just freecycling them on a box-by-box basis, but if I can think of anything more sensible to do with them - that I can do relatively quickly and painlessly - that would be great.

Bonus - a couple of Planetary scans. I have an ambivalent feeling towards the end of this story. It seems to me to imply that Bruce & Diana will be just as maniacal in this reality as the Planetary team were.

I am really really hoping I have not screwed anything up in this post. I checked and rechecked the code and the rules. Please be gentle with me if I have made a boo-boo.



PS - in case tags are still switched off: char: elijah snow, char: wonder woman/diana of themyscira, char: batman/bruce wayne, creator: jerry ordway, creator: warren ellis

Comments

[rickperry]

horrible outfit for Diana.

[jlroberson]

It is, and I do not know why, but I have loathed this comic since the first time I read it. I really don't know why it bothers me so much. It just has this cold, heartless and somewhat outliney feel that I don't get when I read the actual PLANETARY. There's just something ugly about this one, and I don't feel that way because I feel the characters have been blasphemed or anything(I liked RUINS, or at least part 1). I just...can't explain it.

I do think Ordway's art here has something to do with it. Again, I don't understand that either as I usually like him.

[halloweenjack]

I honestly feel like Ellis just got tired of writing this about halfway through. Up until then, it was pretty good; after that, Clark gets taken out by Ellis retconning his powers, Bruce ends up with the Batlogo on his outfit, therefore kind of ruining the whole point of the comic (which is that superheroes don't exist because Snow et al. suppressed them), and Diana takes out Jakita off-panel after Jakita is show practically gutting her. Especially after Planetary/Batman, which really was quite good, this was just sort of dumb.

[rickperry]

I actually do not remember this elseworld special at all.