Never Enough... #4 (Fiction Suits & Dangling Plots)
There's never enough dangling plot thread about travelers from other dimensions that's brought up and then quickly written off. In Planetary #9 (I think,) Warren Ellis did his best Grant Morrison impersonation by introducing the concept of an explorer from another dimension who traveled to Planetary's dimension. If I remember correctly, this traveler could have basically been someone from our world wearing a fiction suit (see the total of Morrison's The Invisibles to get a glimpse into the idea of fiction suits.) It's probably unfair to call this a dangling plot thread because I'm not too sure that Ellis ever really cared about the extra-dimensional explorer. Looking at a preview for the final issue of Planetary, it appears that it's the explorer's ship that was the important piece. There's a lot of talk around the net about the excitement or lack of excitement about this final issue coming out. Personally, I can't wait. In some ways, I think this has been the book of the decade, even though most of it came out in the early days of the 2000s. In it, Ellis and John Cassaday have written stories about stories. They were about the stories of our past and how they relate to our present and can change in our future. Ellis has written a lot of really strong stuff but when all is said and done, the way he wrote about narrative wrapped up in a superhero story may be one of his strongest works. For more of a preview of Planetary #27, check the DC/Wildstorm blog.
