Synopsis
Kieran Shiach has read Planetary more times than he can count. Helena Hart is reading it for the first time. In this podcast, we'll go through the groundbreaking sci-fi superhero mystery issue-by-issue to talk about its influences and its impact.
Episodes
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#13 Century
22/05/2020 Duration: 27minIn the thirteenth episode; Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula and an extraordinary conspiracy!
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#11 Cold World
31/08/2019 Duration: 22minIn the eleventh issue: spies, old friends and revelations.
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#10 Magic & Loss
26/08/2019 Duration: 19minIn the tenth issue: a doomed planet's last hope, an intergalactic peacekeeping organisation's newest officer and a hidden island's greatest warrior.
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#9 Planet Fiction
25/08/2019 Duration: 21minIn the ninth issue: a flashback to the previous Third Man, a mission to a fictional world and a love letter to Grant Morrison.
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#8 The Day The Earth Turned Slower
10/04/2019 Duration: 25minIn the eighth issue: monster movies, Marilyn Monroe analogues and a brief history of McCarthyism.
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#7 To Be In England, In The Summertime
27/03/2019 Duration: 23minIn the seventh issue: Jakita mourns a fallen friend, Grant Morrison makes a cameo and Warren Ellis drops the mic harder than any other comic creator in history.
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#5 The Good Doctor
27/02/2019 Duration: 22minIn the fifth issue: Elijah seeks answers from Axel Brass, we dive into the history of pulp novels as a publishing medium and Ellis deftly weaves his story into the existing WildStorm continuity.
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#4 Strange Harbours
13/02/2019 Duration: 24minIn the fourth episode: we chat about Shiftships, Elijah Snow takes control and we make the first of what is undoubtedly going to be many Achewood references.
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#3 Dead Gunfighters
30/01/2019 Duration: 17minIn the third episode: The Phantom Cop of Hong Kong, Helena correctly guesses an analogue and we meet god... kinda.
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#1 All Over The World
30/01/2019 Duration: 29minIn the first episode: we meet the team for the first time, chat about Doc Savage and discover how creating a multiverse can come back to bite you.
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#0 Nuclear Spring
24/01/2019 Duration: 14minKieran Shiach has read Planetary more times than he can count. Helena Hart is reading it for the first time. In this podcast, we'll go through the groundbreaking sci-fi superhero mystery issue-by-issue to talk about its influences and its impact. To start, we're talking about the eight-page preview story which introduced the world to the team.