March 4th, 2009 | Work
I wrote PLANETARY #27 two years ago.
As fas as I know, John’s still working on the art. Once he’s done, I imagine Laura will colour it.
Should anything change, the news will appear here. If you see no news about PLANETARY #27 here, assume nothing has changed.
That is all.
WARREN ELLIS
Coilhouse - 08 Feb 10
Back around the time of Issue 03, we launched the Small Business Advertising Program to create affordable ad space for indie companies in the print version of Coilhouse. By the time Issue 04 rolled around, the number of advertisers had grown significantly – by this time, we had record labels, jewelry and clothing designers, sculptors, other magazines, web hosts, toy makers and graphic designers advertising in our pages. Click here to see them all. With editorial duties taking up more and more of our time as the weeks go by, the moment has come for us to seek help with the advertising side of running the magazine. We’re looking to hire an Ad Manager for our Small Business Advertising Program, starting with Coilhouse Magazine #05… and possibly subsequent issues.
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jwz - 08 Feb 10
Check the appropriate box. Do you or your organization directly or indirectly advocate, advise, teach or practice the duty or necessity of controlling, seizing or overthrowing the government of the United States, the state of South Carolina or any political division thereof?
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Open The Future - 08 Feb 10
For those folks who are interested, here's the Slideshare version of the presentation I gave last week at the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute annual meeting. I was asked to talk about foresight thinking, as the event theme was "The Big One of 2056: What Went Right?" a look at a fictional 7.8 quake in the SF region that was handled as well as they could imagine possible.
My goal was to offer a bit of reassurance to the audience that there is some real utility to thinking about the future, and to spell out (in a cursory way) the kinds of big picture issues they should keep in mind while looking ahead forty-six years.
By and large, it was a successful talk. The post-talk questions were engaged, with little push-back, and I'm told that the overall response from the audience was quite positive.
The talk was video recorded, and I'm told will eventually be available to the public. I'll link when that happens.
John Robb - 08 Feb 10
A gifting economy is different from a barter or market economy in that valuable items are given away to those that need them, without any quid pro quo, exchange, or payment. Gifting economics (lots of great papers on this topic) were/are the economic heartbeat of hunter-gatherer tribal cultures, the social organization where we spent 99% of our time as homo sapiens sapiens. Barter was, in contrast, a mechanism for economic interactions between tribes.
This gifting economic system wasn't based on pure altruism. It did have an enforcement mechanism to ensure compliance with the system over the longer term. On the positive side, there was an intangible increase in the social status (using personal or societal metrics) of a tribal member that gifted an item. On the negative, a failure to offer hospitality or gifts to those in need was considered a mortal slight that could incite violence or expulsion from the tribe.
There were also a considerable number of drivers for gifting at the tribal level. Here are some:
Scalability
It's pretty clear that the societal drivers of tribal gifting economics and the mechanisms of enforcement didn't survive the transition to a global social system composed of billions of members. Simply, the connections between any two individuals (outside of immediate familial relationships) are too abstract for these drivers and enforcement mechanisms to be relevant. As a result, market based mechanisms for economic interaction have gained dominance.
However, the ongoing shift of the global market-based economy from a trade in rival goods (tangible items that invoke zero sum economics) to digital non-rival goods (items that can be copied at no expense or diminishment, endlessly) provides a window of opportunity. It may be possible to revive gifting economics for non-rival goods to amazing beneficial effect. Some ideas on how this could scale:
Jean Snow - 08 Feb 10
So what’s the latest on SNOW? I guess two new developments art that I added a dedicated Twitter feed, and also created a Facebook fan page. The Twitter feed is mostly just automated with new articles from the site — because some people actually prefer that over RSS feeds these days — but I do keep an eye on it, and will reply to questions and comments. The Facebook page is just another way of putting the site out there, and should be a good way of informing members of SNOW-related events as they happen.
Regular content updates have also continued over the past week, with a few new guest columns and my regular news items. Here’s a list of what you may have missed over the past few days.
Bet you’re regretting macheteing John’s hands off and making him draw with his teeth NOW, aren’t you!
Fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccckkkkkkkk!
I see Planetary #27 in the headline, my heart skips a beat. Then I actually read the post, and the news is… no news. Gaarrghh! Have some sympathy, Mr. Ellis! It’s like you delight in torturing your loyal fans… (oh, wait…)
Sorry, I didn’t know my thoughts were that loud.
Which is, I guess, making Chapters listing of the Planetary Vol. 4 hardcover coming out on July 7 perhaps a touch optimistic.
http://tinyurl.com/cm36j4
I have even a longer wait, as I’m holding out for Absolute Planetary Vol. II. I have the first one and want its sister. Ah well, good things to those who wait and all that jazz…
I shake my Space Cane at you!
im gonna break into his house and draw it myself. Hope you like stick-men.
[...] Publishing | Warren Ellis updates us on the status of Planetary#27. Sort of: “As fas as I know, John’s still working on the art.” [Warren Ellis] [...]
I Still Dreaming in thein the Number 27 of Planetary like the dreamer of Ayres Rock!
It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.(Warren Ellis)
It seems like Planetary #27 might never be published. It has been two years since the writing was finished. Could you leak the script Mr. Ellis? If the book is never going to come out I would prefer to know how the story ends, even in an incomplete form.
If John tells me he’s drawing it, and the office tell me they’ve seen pages, then he’s most certainly drawing it and they’ve most certainly seen pages. Get a grip, man.
Thats great news! I am too accustomed to a long delay leading to the death of a project. But now I’m curious in your personal stance, not specifically for Planetary. If a series that you finished writing were officially cancelled before the end of its run would you make the script public for the readers?
I doubt it.
I’m excited for Planetary #27 but it’ll get done when it gets done. Hounding Warren and John is not going to help.
Offering mutilated children and puppies as a gift is the real way to get this book rollin’!
I’ll have some for you tomorrow Mr. Ellis.
Patiently waiting. In the meantime, I kill my dog.
I’m just grateful it is in production and will eventually see print.
I can wait — I waited a year or more between the final issuers of Super-Villain Team-Up, I can wait for this.
At least it’s not Big Numbers (or Stray Toasters or 1963 80-Page Giant or Glory, Youngblood or Supreme: The Return) all over again!
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I had a dream a couple of months ago in which I saw #27 on the shelves, but the douche behind the till wouldn’t sell it to me. Eventually I beat him to death with a model of Mjolnir, and walked out with the book, but woke up before I could read it. So close!
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You’re making too much money Mr. Ellis! You don’t want my money for the fourth hardcover and the second Absolute? Anyway Planetary #18 did good for me, I have not reread a comic book, immediately after the first read, since I bought the oversized danish editions of the DK Returns series many years ago, but with “The Gun Club”, I found the excitement that one can only find in comic books, few only find that excitement once, even fewer find it twice – So thank you for that! But still, it would be nice to read #27 before my neural network dies by the un-merciful sword of time………..I’ll return to my beer drinking now……
Oh, I see you’re taking comments.
Just want to add my “vote”: Planetary is my favorite miniseries like ever. A ripping yarn that could only be done as a comic, I believe. And, as an old fart, love the Fantastic Four parody (in the literary sense) underlying it.
Y’know, Warren has absolutely nothing to do with it at this point. John Cassaday is the artist, and it’s his schedule, ability and inclination to work on it that influence the release date now. There’s nothing anyone else can do about it. Even if he WANTED to release the script online, Warren still wouldn’t. At the very least it would damage his relationship with the book’s publisher, and just be an altogether dick move to undercut them like that. Especially for something that is in no way their fault. Anyhow, what’s the hurry for the series to end? You’ll miss it when it’s gone anyway. Try to enjoy all the plethora of other comics Warren and others are doing now.
-k.
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I just want to say that planetary is something that keeps getting better everytime i read it. I can wait for the elusive #27. But until then is their anything out there even close to as good?