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People make a bigger deal out of the connections than there actually is. They're both set in the 'Wildstorm Universe', share the mythology of 'century babies' (though Planetary and Authority: Revolution have been taking that mythology in very different directions), had a crossover one-shot and both draw on a couple of concepts from Ellis's Stormwatch. That's about it.

Planetary is much more strongly connected to Tarzan, Godzilla, Hellblazer, James Bond, The Fantastic Four and everything else ever written last century.

The basic idea is that it's about a team of archeologists working to uncover the Secret History of a dreamlike Twentieth Century in which pretty much all genre fiction...from H.G. Wells SF to Hong Kong Cinema...actually happened.

Working to stop our heroes is 'The Four', a family of scientific adventurers who want to hoard all the wonders of the fantastic world for themselves - beliving that if people like Planetary shared the secrets of the world with the world then "If everybody's special then nobody is."



I'm a big fan. I swear that apart from lacking the metaphysics, A Series of Unfortunate Events is pretty much what The Invisibles should have been.

As Harry Potter threads are allowed here, I'll have to inflict a Snickett one on you all at some point.

'Zactly. It's not like the characters whose lives and names we've stolen would spend all their time talking about superheroics/supervillainy/mystical wheelings and dealings/journalism and unfettered substance abuse/squirrels.

Dr. Stephen Strange

Creators: Lee and Ditko
Impact Workers: Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, Steve Englehart, and Frank Brunner

Why Strange? I've never known a character to have an impact like Strange has. He's a cornerstone, but constantly regarded by the general public to be nuts. He's one of the most powerful heroes in the entirety of Marvel, but he started out sharing a title with Nick Fury, Human Torch, and the Thing.

Strange is also an a*****e. He's bravado, he's aloof, and he's incredibly intelligent. He's a lot of what I am and what I want to be, but most of all he's got a sense of humanity. He knows when to go for help. He knows when to muscle through, and when to outhink his opponent.

Long time no see Stephen 3nodding

I'm still waiting for one on the political differences between The Incredibles and The Authority, mister.

Welsey Gibson a.k.a The Killer

Created by Mark Millar

Wesley Gibson was like you and me in some sense, shitty a** job, girl-friend cheating on him, being made fun of by the local punks. Just normal guy with nothing to offer the world like so many people. But when the father Wesley never knew he had dies, Wesley inherits his dad's mantle as the deadliest super-villian, The Killer. With this new persona comes the ability to do anyhting to anyone without reprocusion, since the world is run by a society of super-villians that that wiped out ever superhero in 1986.

The killers super-power isn't just deadly aim, like Deadshot or Bullseye. He has the power to take anyone down with anything: a chair, a paperclip, just plain common sense. He's cool character in a cool situation in comics; in a world without superheros or punishment, what can't you do?

Because it's a good morality play on what kind of person would develop given that situation?

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