| Characters |
Planetary [Elijah Snow; Jakita Wagner; the Drummer]; Allison; Randall Dowling (cameo-flashback); Anna Hark (cameo-flashback) |
| Synopsis |
Planetary is contacted by a woman named Allison, who relates to them the horrors of Science City Zero. City Zero was an experimental base where people disappeared during the height of the “Red Scare” and were subjected to scientific tortures designed to test the limits of the human body. |
| Genre |
science fiction |
| Script |
Warren Ellis |
| Pencils |
John Cassaday |
| Inks |
John Cassaday |
| Colors |
Laura DePuy; Wendy Fouts |
| Letters |
Ryan Cline |
| Notes |
Some of the monsters and mutated humans are reminiscent of the B-Grade science fiction movies of the 1950s and 1960s. Credits include "with special thanks to Wendy Fouts" |
| Reprinted |
in Planetary: The Fourth Man (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in Absolute Planetary (DC, 2004 series) #[nn]; in Wildstorm (Magic Press, 2000 series) #12 |