Planetary Preview

Plot

The three-person field team—Jakita Wagner, Elijah Snow, and The Drummer—of the organization known as Planetary pays a visit to an elderly military general at a heavily guarded secret government facility. Telling the general that they are "mapping the secret history of the 20th century," they compel him to fill them in on what really happened to David Paine in 1962, a secret whose very existence should be unknown to anyone alive. The 30-year-old mystery involves a brilliant young scientist, Paine, who has developed and is experimenting with integral design theory—creating a brain that could monkey with the machinery of the universe. Unfortunately for him, an illicit affair with the general's wife ends up putting him at ground zero of the explosion of one of his own experimental bombs. Though no one can quite explain it, Paine is transformed into a creature that is capable of surviving the ensuing blast—a hulking gray monster who is only contained by the military after a month-long rampage of mass destruction. After being dropped to the bottom of an old missile silo, it takes 21 years for the creature to die. The general remarks that his wife had a daughter shortly after the creature's capture...one who he's never met.