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I finally read the last issue of Planetary today. It came out in 2009, and the previous issue came out in 2006, so it's been about 5 years since I read an issue. I managed to find all the issues back to #16 in my mostly undifferentiated pile(s) of old comics, so I got a chance to re-read a bunch of issues leading up to it. Planetary had been one of my favorite series, despite the long gaps between issues. That last issue was a nice one, and a fitting end to the series. It does leave open some possibilities, and it would be nice to see Ellis and Cassaday come back to it, but I guess that's unlikely. I found a couple of good online references to the series, here and here. It's a very dense series, so it helps to read someone else's perspective on it, just to see things you've missed, or that might have alternate interpretations.

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