PopPreview - Planetary/Authority: Ruling The World.
"Ellis' two superteams collide..."

Well, Warren Ellis' superteam comics certainly never are _boring_.

PLANETARY/AUTHORITY: RULING THE WORLD is the meeting that fans have been waiting for. Planetary, Ellis' scalpel cutting into the past of genre comics, and The Authority, Ellis' contemporary reinvention of the modern superteam get together and have a nice spot of tea, as illustrated by Phil Jiminez and Andy Lanning. Heh, no, not really. There are giant explosions and other-dimensional superbeasts and evil plots and all of that, but I don't want to spoil it for you anymore than these 7 pages already will. Check it out, on store shelves this June!

Here's the original solicitation text from DC Comics/Wildstorm.

PLANETARY/AUTHORITY: RULING THE WORLD
Item Code APR000236

Two teams from opposite poles of the WildStorm world come together in a story of colliding universes, invasions from beyond space, massive destruction, megadeath, deranged gentleman-horror-writers with really big guns, and...eggs in PLANETARY/THE AUTHORITY: RULING THE WORLD, a Prestige one-shot from the writer who lauched both teams — TRANSMETROPOLITAN's Warren Ellis — with art by Phil Jimenez (JLA/THE TITANS: THE TECHNIS IMPERATIVE, THE INVISIBLES) and Andy Lanning (LEGION LOST).
Topped with a dazzling cover by Jimenez, RULING THE WORLD finds the more-than-top-secret Planetary team covertly investigating the Authority, the pantheon-like team that considers the world its personal protectorate. But while Planetary investigates the Authority, the Authority is looking into something that leads directly to one of Planetary's most critical cases. Someone from the Authority's past is powering up the strange computer hidden deep in the Adirondacks that generates the weird map of the multiverse called the Snowflake...and something is coming through that map to threaten our world.
Planetary wants to protect its agenda, its secrecy...and the world. The Authority wants to protect its primacy, its security...and the world. And the planetary authority coming through the Snowflake? It wants only to rule the world. Something's got to give...
This project is supported with house ads. In addition, THE AUTHORITY and PLANETARY ongoing series will be supported with a 4-color poster; house and trade ads; and co-op ad slicks.
PLANETARY/THE AUTHORITY: RULING THE WORLD is a 48-page WILDSTORM PRODUCTIONS one-shot in the Prestige Format edited by John Layman. It arrives in comic-book stores June 21 with a cover price of $5.95 U.S.

Planetary, Authority, and all images and text copyright 2000 DC Comics. This article is a review, and is based upon a review copy which may change before printing.