Axel Brass

Axel Brass stepped onto the page in 1999 when Warren Ellis and John Cassaday launched Planetary — one of the most celebrated and intellectually ambitious series DC published at the turn of the millennium. A figure whose presence resonates even across just a handful of catalogued appearances, Brass inhabits the same extraordinary world as Elijah Snow, The Drummer, and The Spider, a universe where the strange and the mythic collide on every page. Ellis and Cassaday built Planetary as a love letter to the hidden history of the twentieth century, and Brass feels like a man forged in that very history — weathered, consequential, and carrying secrets worth uncovering. For readers who prize comics that reward curiosity, tracking down every page Axel Brass appears on is absolutely worth the effort.