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Global Frequency: Planet Ablaze (Paperback)

by Warren Ellis (Author), Steve Dillon (Author), Glenn Fabry (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (21 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840238496
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840238495
  • Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 16.8 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 476,106 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dreamwatch Magazine 1 March 2005: " ...short near-future tales that both entertain and make you wonder how we're ever going to survive without a real Global Frequency force." --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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From Warren Ellis, the creative dynamo behind such acclaimed titles as Transmetropolitan and The Authority, comes volume one in a stunning new Titan graphic novel series! Global Frequency is a latticework of 1001 scientists, soldiers and specialists in every field imaginable, woven into a net to stop every terrorist with a nuke, government weapons programme gone rogue or alien computer virus, Seeing, hearing, touching and battling all evil, it is Mankind's collective consciousness and immune system. Drawn by a dream team of amazing artists, Global Frequency is the all-knowing, all-powerful blanket to smother our darkest fears and worst nightmares!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Warren Ellis does it again !, 3 Dec 2004
By WJ Davidson (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
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Warren Ellis has made a good name for himself by writing hard edged, witty satires on the superhero genre while at the same time delivering more thrills than the 'real thing'. In fact he has been so successful at this (often subverting from wihin via X-Men spin offs etc) that 'the real thing' has started to look like something from the mind of Warren Ellis.
In this book, WE uses the device of an 'international rescue' organisation made up of extra-ordinary people but not spandex clad superheroes. These operatives are called upon to deal with weird and dangerous situations (virus bombs, dealing with an escaped bionic man, alien invasions that sort of thing) in creative and normally quite violent ways.
The dialogue is generally sharp and the character sketches are amusingly observed. This is a series not a serial and each episode focusses on different central characters so unlike The Authority or Planetary, there is no character continuity or development. This is an observation rather than a complaint because as far as this book goes, it works fine.
This book contains 6 stories, each illustrated by a different artist, all of whom are top notch. Some like Gary Leach don't publish very often but are worth their weight in gold when they do. Its also interesting to see some Jon J Muth pen and ink work again after such a long time (he is more famous for his painted works eg moon shadow). Also special mention for one of my favourite artists Steve Dillon. Probably most famous for his work with Garth Ennis on Preacher, but my fondest memories are of Laser Eraser and Pressbutton from the Warrior days. Total class.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Are you on the Global Frequency?, 28 Oct 2004
By Richard Kelly (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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What you get in this book is 6 stories about a rescue organisation called Global Frequency. This agency consists of 1001 agents specialising in areas as simple as combat and upto any area of scientific research you care to think about. This organisation is run by the mysterious Miranada Zero who recruits all the agents herself and goes on the missions with her chosen operatives.

The stories here are as simple as destroying a human cyborg for the US Military when it goes mad, solving the mystery of why a town went mad after seeing an angel descend from heaven and stopping the ebola virus being released in London. And that is just 3 of them.

Each story is drawn by a different artist which lends them all a different look and feel, my personal favourite is Big Sky set in Norway and discusses the nature of magic (not stage magic, but real magic) to solve the reason for the angel...

As stated in the previous review there is a pilot being made in the states for a Global Frequency TV show and you can see why. Each of the stories here would make compulsive viewing for and hour - they even have Warren Ellis on board as Executive consultant (which means he gets to smoke and drink in the states whilst it's being made, based on his e-mails and web site).

Overall this is good quality comic fiction and my only gripe is that each story does feel exactly like a TV episode...

Overall I'm giving it 9/10 and rounding that up to 5 stars.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 20 Dec 2006
By Air fan (Padgate campus, Chesire, UK, Hellmouth) - See all my reviews
I bought Global Frequency 1-6 and Global Frequency: Detonation Radio - issues 7-12, after reading about it in a Joss Whedon interview. When reading them, I was made up to read something that was new [to me] in terms of storylines and action and just stuff that they were talking about that I didn't have a clue about beforehand, and exciting because there was actually a feeling of unpredictability compared to when you read regular comics and you know a certain character will survive, but in these issues, anyone could die. I also liked the different story angles that were utilised, for example people invading the frequency headquarters and Aleph being the one to be on the global frequency, and also the fact that each issue you kind of got a little bit of sense of who Miranda Zero and Aleph were, but also not really knowing who they are.

I recommend that people purchase these, as they will make your day, unless you are doing something better like going up in a hot air balloon.
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