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October 7th, 2009 | people I know, photography, researchmaterial
PLANETARY #27 comes out today in North America. So I think it’s probably wise for me to stay away from the internet for most of the day. Besides, I want to have put a stake in the episode breakdown of the WOLVERINE anime series by the end of today. So this is going to be just one long meandering blogpost that is mostly about me closing tabs.
Model Magdalene Veen and photographer Angel Ceballos have my ideal answer to any snark about PLANETARY this week:
(I should also note that Angel has her own POD book available, the beautiful SEATTLEITES, at a very reasonable price for such a solid volume.)
I sent Agent Redhead into the Architecture Association bookshop for me the other day, to pick me up a copy of the first issue of MAP, the Manual of Architectural Possibilities. Yet another point at which fiction is leaking into design, and design linking into fiction (and also that it’s happening, perhaps needs to happen, on paper, like PEAR). Geoff did a post about MAP on BLDGBLOG recently that has all the links you need in it. I’ll point special attention here, where it shows you purchase points in the UK, Denmark and the US. It’s dead cheap.
In living up to its name, it’s a map, a manual, and a wunderkammer of speculation about Antarctic architecture, fully tipping over to science fiction in the fullest definition of that term: social fiction, political fiction, speculative fiction and the muse of science. And it bears the official stamp of Sir Peter Cook, head of the Weird Shit International.
Apropos of nothing, this is what happens when Agent Redhead attempts to make Matt Jones explain his stream-of-mentalism cultural commentary after seven pints have been poured inside him during a brain-sintering session at the Reliance. There were scalpels involved.
Speaking of Jones, there has been avant-tharging again of late. Part of a Thing by Max Gadney, for a Thing called THIS IS TOMORROW that we shall tell you about when we’re entirely sure what it actually is.
When I showed Zoetica Ebb’s latest print in a flickrgeist yesterday, I neglected to mention that the old scrote is selling the print off her website. So here it is again, and a link to the relevant page for all you BLADE RUNNER fetishists.
Sara Gries makes a homage object to COILHOUSE with hammers and fire:
Templesmith’s in Brazil, sans luggage or chargers. Am waiting for his leg to fall off next.
Newspaper Club are getting closer to launch. And I’m getting closer, I think, to a broad set of thoughts that connect Newspaper Club, MagCloud and Zinepal. I think. Although it occured to me, while I was talking to Ariana (my Number One Mechanic, responsible for keeping this site going among many other things) last night, that the real application for Zinepal is in emailing "mini-magazines" to your phone…
And Disquiet have got one of the sound loops from the forthcoming Gristleism Machine, which I ordered immediately because I love my Buddha Machine.
And I’m out of time, says the screen, and I need to go back to work for an hour before heading out in search of steak and a pint. See you later.
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From one old scrote to another - THANKS!
I have just this second returned from the comic shop, mixed a martini, and read Planetary #27.
Thank you.
Anything else I could say would be bullshit, but booze provides a bullshit-license so I specifically thank you for the combination of ultrascience with the warm human aspect that makes the fact we do anything worthwhile. You turned the usual “Great big fight resolution with minor human element chaser” stereotype on it’s head. I may also love you, man.
In my wife’s comic shop, I expect we will sell out of Planetary 27. First thing I grabbed and read while unpacking boxes this morning, and was delighted by it. Absolutely pitch-perfect ending to the series.
-E
Without his luggage? Oh my… Templesmite will surely be devoured by our urban stray jaguars.
>>>And I’m getting closer, I think, to a broad set of thoughts that connect Newspaper Club, MagCloud and Zinepal.
I hope you will. I’ve been tweeting links of your posts about that PrintNet (or wtf the name is, pardon me) you’ve been mentioning.
Yeah, Planetary 27 came out today. Yeah, I bought it and read it. Yeah, it was as great as I expected. It may have come from a bad time in your life, but it is still a masterpiece. And I thank you for unleashing it upon the world.
One humble request - never let anyone else write those characters. Authority was never the same once you left it. I won’t buy Planetary with anyone else at the helm.
“We thought it’d be funnier if I waited.”
That, sir, was great. Much thanks.
Perfect ending to Planetary Ellis. Thank you. No funny quips. Just thank you.
I just finished Planetary and it was amazing. The series holds a very special place in my heart because, through characters like Doc Brass, The Spider, and issues like #11 with John Stone and #15 with Ayers Rock, the series introcued me to Doc Savage, The Spider, gain an appreciation for the spy genre and learn more about Ayers Rock. It was a gateway to a broader world of fiction.
That and every issue was different and I loved that.
Everyone’s going to talk about it being a masterpiece or talk about the release dates. Me, I just enjoyed the hell out of it. It was something to look forward to.
I for one will miss its smile. A big wonderous colourful thing that you could spot from the doorway of the store.It was that smile that attracted me to him in the first place. It was curious and emaculately drawn. After a long day of working we’d come home and drink beer and tell each other stories. His were always better.time passed. we went quite a while without seeing one another. his fault more than mine i think, but that’s neither here nor there. i saw him on wednesday, and i knew it’d be the last time ever.
goodbye planetary.