Sequart
Research & Literacy Organization’s Keeping
the World Strange: A Planetary Guide is now available for order
through comic shops (use Diamond order code MAR111401). The book is currently
listed in the books section of March's Previews catalog (page 347) and
is set to hit stores in late May.
“Highly recommended.” – Ain’t It
Cool News
Edited by
Cody Walker, Keeping the World Strange offers essays that examine the highly-acclaimed
WildStorm series from varied, thought-provoking viewpoints:
* We Contain Universes: The
Delicately Spinning Reality of the Snowflake, by Kevin Thurman
* Surfing through Planetary: The Characters behind the Fiction, by Andy
Richardson
* The Secret History of the WildStorm Universe, by Cody Walker
* When Third is Fourth: The Mystery of
the Fourth Man, by Chad Nevett
* Bleeding Between the Lines: Planetary and Vertigo, by Timothy
Callahan
* “The Hidden Wonders of the World”: Planetary
and Reconstructionism, by Julian Darius
* Archaeologists, Architects, and Acolytes:
Reading Futures Studies in Planetary,
by Caleb Stokes
* The Monster Within: Examining
Monstrous Archetypes in Planetary, by
Ross Payton
* Planetary and Decompression, by
Patrick Meaney
* The Ideal and the Strange: Order Vs. Freedom in Planetary,
by Peter Sanderson
* The Man Who Knows the Game, by A. David Lewis (viewing Planetary as a game that begins with Elijah Snow’s white suit)
* Apocrypha or Canon? Fitting the Three
Crossover One-Shots into Planetary,
by Chad Nevett
* Appendix: Sequencing Planetary, by Julian Darius (a suggested
reading order for Planetary’s 31
stories)
No Planetary
fan or comics scholar should go without this critical analysis of one of the
best series of the 21st century. (Softcover,
6”x9”, 188 pgs, B&W, $19.95 cover price, ISBN 9780578077017.)