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Planetary/The Authority: Ruling the World
Release Date: June 2000"Ruling the World"
Written by Warren Ellis
Pencilled by Phil Jiminez
Inked by Andy Lanning
Coloured by Laura DePuy
Lettered by Ryan Cline
Edited by John Layman
Cover by Phil Jiminez
Solicitation:
The two most disparate teams in the WildStorm Universe collide in this Prestige one-shot.
Two teams from opposite poles of the WildStorm world come together in a story of colliding universes, invasions from beyond space, massive destruction, megadeath, deranged gentleman-horror-writers with really big guns, and...eggs in PLANETARY/THE AUTHORITY: RULING THE WORLD, a Prestige one-shot from the writer who lauched both teams — TRANSMETROPOLITAN's Warren Ellis — with art by Phil Jimenez (JLA/THE TITANS: THE TECHNIS IMPERATIVE, THE INVISIBLES) and Andy Lanning (LEGION LOST).
Topped with a dazzling cover by Jimenez, RULING THE WORLD finds the more-than-top-secret Planetary team covertly investigating the Authority, the pantheon-like team that considers the world its personal protectorate. But while Planetary investigates the Authority, the Authority is looking into something that leads directly to one of Planetary's most critical cases. Someone from the Authority's past is powering up the strange computer hidden deep in the Adirondacks that generates the weird map of the multiverse called the Snowflake...and something is coming through that map to threaten our world.
Planetary wants to protect its agenda, its secrecy...and the world. The Authority wants to protect its primacy, its security...and the world. And the planetary authority coming through the Snowflake? It wants only to rule the world. Something's got to give...
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Synopsis:
A giant, octopus-like creature, accompanied by various toothy flying fish creatures, has turned the town of Judgement, Rhode Island into a war zone, and judging by Elijah Snow's tirade, The Drummer is somehow responsible. As Planetary leaves the scene, The Authority, self-proclaimed protectors of Earth, successfully clean up the mess. Snow's critical assessment is accurate, for he'd encountered the mysterious eggs (one of which spawned the mammoth beast) back in 1931, when a novelist inadvertently discovered a portal into The Bleed -- the space between universes.
While the Authority is making the Bleed connection, and tying one of the eggs (hatched by human touch) to an energy signature in the Adirondacks they'd monitored previously, Snow is dismayed to learn that his teammates have turned their attention to The Authority itself. Indeed, they intend to break onto their 50-mile long ship, The Carrier, to access the vast informational archive stored there. Teleporting on, they are collecting data when they receive word that the Adirondacks base containing Doc Brass's super-computer has been compromised. A psychotic who learned about the Bleed via the aforementioned novelist has infiltrated Planetary intending to use the computer to kill the world.
The Authority, monitoring the situation themselves, also responds, and both teams arrive on the scene simultaneously. Outside the base, Jenny Sparks' team encounters an ever-growing army of killer robots; inside, Planetary finds their team (and the madman who killed them) dead and the computer Brass guarded for 50 years operating -- and opening a doorway to marauders from another universe, including a demonic, alternate-reality version of the Authority itself. Working independently, the teams overcome the invading force and shut down the computer, leaving each group conscious that future battles are yet to come.
Publishing:
- This issue ranked #65 on the June 2000 Diamond Comics Distributor's Preorders list with an estimated 32, 100 units sold.
- This issue is collected in the Planetary: Crossing Worlds trade.
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