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Planetary Brigade
The Planetary Brigade is a group of heroes fronted by Squared's Captain Valor and Grim Knight. Meet Mr. Brilliant - Earth has never met a smarter, or more smug, hero. Earth Goddess - by day, she's a sweet, unassuming wallflower, but when the Earth needs her, she turns into a gargantuan guardian of the plane. Purring Pussycat - sweet, sexy... what's she hiding? The Third Eye - spiritual mystic. The Mauve Visitor - strange visitor from another world, or cute little Smurf-like dude? Together, they're in a league all their own!
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
About the author
Keith Giffen
1,969 books222 followersKeith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics.
Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.
He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.
He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.
Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.
He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.
He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.
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March 22, 2020
Eh. Usually Giffen is funnier. :(
May 8, 2022
I thought this was a pretty good send up on JLA and some Marvel stuff, too. Had a good time with this. Would be interested to read more.
October 20, 2015
It's amazing to me that the back of this graphic novel blurbs it as being "from the creative team of I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" since it's a painfully transparent parody of the Justice League. It's not a bad book, but it never seems to find its place: it's not laugh-out-loud funny (the "hilarity" that it promises amounts to barely more than an occasional chuckle), and it's really just more of a super-hero story than a satire on a super-hero story. The Mauve Visitor (the PB's version of the Martian Manhunter) is by far the stand-out character here, as he's more interested in drinking martinis, making sexual innuendos, and keeping his thousands-of-dollars custom suits clean than he is in any sort of crime fighting. But the rest of the book is a bit too serious to be funny; and just slightly too funny (or intended to be, at least) to be taken seriously. The art varies widely - 10 different artists in all - that distracts from any continuity; at one point, I had to flip back to realize that the two characters being presented were the same two characters we'd seen previously. Not a high point, though occasionally a bit fun.
June 20, 2008
Flippant parody, like much of Giffen's work, but this has some substance to it. The real weak spot is the art, which varies wildly in quality, as the series showcases too many artists for the length of the stories.
The characters include parodies of Superman, Batman, Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow and more. Some of the parodies are better than others...the Mauve Visitor is an effete purple telepath who finds Earth's greatest creation to be the martini.
Unlike Giffen's sometimes-painful Justice League work, since this is more openly a parody, he isn't harming anyone else's continuity. In this context, you can see that he and DeMatteis CAN do something other than wreck a team book. While some of this mini-series is just goofy, it also includes a character study of an abused girl turned villain turned hero, and other interesting character studies.
The characters include parodies of Superman, Batman, Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow and more. Some of the parodies are better than others...the Mauve Visitor is an effete purple telepath who finds Earth's greatest creation to be the martini.
Unlike Giffen's sometimes-painful Justice League work, since this is more openly a parody, he isn't harming anyone else's continuity. In this context, you can see that he and DeMatteis CAN do something other than wreck a team book. While some of this mini-series is just goofy, it also includes a character study of an abused girl turned villain turned hero, and other interesting character studies.
April 28, 2021
Both and homage and parody of comics
To put it's simply this book is a spin off of Hero Squared. It also acts as and homage Too silver age comics mostly the justice league. You do not need to read the main series to understand this 1 It's a good stand alone with Art That pays tribute to various other styles.Interestingly enough this book and series was made by a team that worked on the justice league. Here's a bit of trivia In the series the batman standing is called the grim knight Years later DC comics with also release a new version of batman called the grim knight.
To put it's simply this book is a spin off of Hero Squared. It also acts as and homage Too silver age comics mostly the justice league. You do not need to read the main series to understand this 1 It's a good stand alone with Art That pays tribute to various other styles.Interestingly enough this book and series was made by a team that worked on the justice league. Here's a bit of trivia In the series the batman standing is called the grim knight Years later DC comics with also release a new version of batman called the grim knight.
October 27, 2010
Leído de la edición española de Norma publicada en dos tomos: "Brigada Planetaria" y "Brigada Planetaria Orígenes" que no subo para no partir la edición. En cuanto al comic en sí, ni es el mejor trabajo de los autores ni el peor, supongo. Cuando me termine "Héroe al cuadrado" quizás relea este spin-off y lo rerreseñe.
December 14, 2013
No sé cómo será leer este título sin conocer la etapa de Giffen en Justice League (con reparos, la más brillante del grupo), pero el lector más fogueado difícilmente empatizará con este trasunto de Authority en plan cómico. Personajes medianamente logrados, bromas que no llegan a encajar y un trama poco entusiasta recuerda que un chiste debe estar muy bien contado para hacerte reír dos veces.
October 3, 2016
More of Giffen's great dialog, but unlike with his Justice League stuff, this got old for me.
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