- Title: Planetary #3
- Comic Vine: link
- Writer: Warren Ellis
- Artist: John Cassaday
Flashback Friday takes us back to another adventure of the Archaeologists of the Impossible. There are better issues of Planetary but I don’t know if there’s a cooler issue than Planetary #3 which sends Elijah Snow, Jakita Wagner, and the Drummer to Hong Kong to investigate the ghost of a murdered cop seeking vengeance killing criminals with brutal efficiency. The issue continues to showcase how any kind of story can be a Planetary story and works in a panel to remind us how freakin’ cool Jakita Wagner is.
What the third issue offers is a standard ghost story setup with some brutal, but warranted, vengeance thrown in. We get the obligatory scene of the ghost’s story told to our group and then them witnessing it themselves. The Drummer plays a crucial role in allowing the group to talk with the ghost of Detective Shek Chi-Wai who before the end of the issue will kill the dirty partner responsible for his death and offer some haunting words of wisdom to our protagonists.
[WildStorm, $2.50]