Contents 1 Appearing in "To Be In England, In The Summertime" 2 Synopsis for "To Be In England, In The Summertime" 3 Notes 4 Trivia 5 See Also 6 Recommended Reading 7 Links and References

Appearing in "To Be In England, In The Summertime"

Featured Characters:

• Planetary

• Jakita Wagner
• Elijah Snow
• The Drummer

Supporting Characters:

• Jack Carter (Single appearance)

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Other Characters:

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Locations:

• London , England

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Synopsis for "To Be In England, In The Summertime"

Jakita receives word that Jack Carter is dead, which has a different effect on each team member. En route to the funeral, Snow learns that Carter, a former lover of Jakita's, was Planetary's window on England in the '80s, a period during which a series of strange occurrences occurred. Carter himself was skilled in the occult arts, as a story Jakita tells -- involving a shadowy (literally) government assassin being mystically dispatched by a coldly righteous Carter -- grimly reveals. And the bizarre group of characters in attendance at his funeral ("They're eighties people," explains Jakita) gives credence to Jakita's statement that "Jack was everything you wanted London to be," even though the Drummer dismisses him as "a con man who pulled a scam once too often."

Afterward, they head over to the scene of Jack's death, and within five minutes the Drummer's ability to see magic ("it's just signal, just information, and that puts it in my ball court," he explains) tells them that the man faked his own death. Confirmation comes when his anguished, musclebound killer in spandex shows up to explain his reasons for doing the deed... and then Carter himself shows up to blast the man's chest open with a shotgun. Explaining that he faked his own death to get the drop on his "killer," he kisses Jakita goodbye, telling her the '80s are long over, "and it's time to move on." He then vanishes into the night.

Notes

• This issue is collected in Planetary Vol. 2: The Fourth Man.

Trivia

• The attendees at Jack Carter's funeral are analogues of characters that appeared in the Vertigo comics.
• Jack Carter's new identity bears a physical resemblance to Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan.

See Also

• Write your own review of this comic!
• Discuss Planetary Vol 1 7 on the forums
• Cover gallery for the Planetary series
• Images from Planetary Vol 1 7

Recommended Reading

• None.

Links and References

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