A continued look at pre-internet publisher’s comics solicitations, this time DC Direct Currents 90 August 1995. This is the last DC Direct Currents in this comic sized free giveaway format. What a month: John Byrne’s Wonder Woman and Robinson and Smith’s The Golden…
52 weeks. 52 different writers. 2 trade paperbacks or hardcovers a week. Each week I’ll take a look at a different writer and read two different collected editions from within that person’s repertoire to help in the examination of their work: James Robinson.
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It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! Hotter than Cat Grant. He is…BIFF SOCKO!
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When DC relaunched its line of comics in September 2011, noticeably absent were any titles featuring the classic JSA characters of Golden Age infamy. Even still, at a DC panel at Fan Expo 2011 in Toronto, Canada, it was acknowledged that before long fans of classic versions of Green Lantern, Flash and Superman would get their fill. After many months of anticipation, fans of the characters received the first issue of Earth 2 #1 last week as it thundered onto store shelves and into our loving hands.
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After narrowly avoiding Deathstroke’s assassination attempt and learning more of the plot against his life, Shade travels to Austrailia to uncover the next piece of the puzzle.
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The first issue of Shade hit comic book shelves last week, very likely under the radar amid the trove of titles that included Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Men and Green Lantern. The book, penned by James Robinson, features the mysterious mystic known as Shade. The book at least to this point has been confirmed as a 12-issue maxi-series, but has been promised to be home to a fair number of surprises throughout the series, one of which calls this issue home.
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DC held a panel on Aug. 27 focusing on the DC 52 relaunch, where creators talked about their work, while new projects were also unveiled.
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Some of DC's brightest creators involved in the Flashpoint mini-series spoke to fans for an hour on Aug. 26 at Fan Expo during the Flashpoint Friday DC panel.
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Friday was my first day at Fan Expo 2011, and I would say it turned out fairly well.
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Hobbystar has really pulled out all the stops to make sure that the customers are getting the most out of the now 4 day convention. Announced earlier today, the guestline up is quite the who's who of the comic world. Check out the list inside.
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Tom Brevoort Thought we had this city won, but apparently DC Comics is staying in NYC. So the fight goes on… So, it looks like it’s a non-announcement. We all expected something pretty epic – but in the end, we…
Review: Justice League: Cry for Justice (Hardcover) Writer: James Robinson Artists: Mauro Cascioli and Scott Clark Howdy folks, I’m back again with a special review of Cry for Justice, a seven issue mini-series starring a pro-active Justice League aiming…
I’ve been a long time reader of Mighty God King. His website (even if he gets way too into So You Think You Can Dance Canada) is packed with amazingly witty and insightful articles about all manner of things. He…
Two months after announcing War of the Supermen, DC has revealed more details of the May event that the publishers are describing as “the 100-minute war.” That’s right, the epic battle between New Krypton and Earth will be fought and…
It looks like DC has some plans up their sleeve to keep us occupied during the lonely month of January. It seems that Blackest Night will skip January and instead there will be some other book that will tide us over..…
DC’s The Source has posted a few pages from the first issue of James Robinson (Starman and JLA: Cry for Justice) and Mark Bagley (Trinity, Ultimate Spider-Man) run on Justice League. While this doesn’t necessarily look like it’s going to…
