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In the fourteenth issue; The X-Files, Miracleman and how do invisible people see?

In the thirteenth episode; Sherlock Holmes, Count Dracula and an extraordinary conspiracy!

In the twelfth episode: The Fourth Man.

In the eleventh issue: spies, old friends and revelations.

In the tenth issue: a doomed planet's last hope, an intergalactic peacekeeping organisation's newest officer and a hidden island's greatest warrior.

In the ninth issue: a flashback to the previous Third Man, a mission to a fictional world and a love letter to Grant Morrison.

In the eighth issue: monster movies, Marilyn Monroe analogues and a brief history of McCarthyism.

In the seventh issue: Jakita mourns a fallen friend, Grant Morrison makes a cameo and Warren Ellis drops the mic harder than any other comic creator in history.

In the sixth issue: the big bads, revealed.

In the fifth issue: Elijah seeks answers from Axel Brass, we dive into the history of pulp novels as a publishing medium and Ellis deftly weaves his story into the existing WildStorm continuity.

In the fourth episode: we chat about Shiftships, Elijah Snow takes control and we make the first of what is undoubtedly going to be many Achewood references.

In the third episode: The Phantom Cop of Hong Kong, Helena correctly guesses an analogue and we meet god... kinda.

In the second episode: Planetary goes international, we chat about Godzilla and learn what Elijah Snow can really do.

In the first episode: we meet the team for the first time, chat about Doc Savage and discover how creating a multiverse can come back to bite you.

Kieran Shiach has read Planetary more times than he can count. Helena Hart is reading it for the first time.   In this podcast, we'll go through the groundbreaking sci-fi superhero mystery issue-by-issue to talk about its influences and its impact. To start, we're talking about the eight-page preview story which introduced the world to the team.