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Batman Black and White Story : Question Re Writer's Identity

13:39 / 21.03.03

Okay, so maybe this is the price I pay for reading comics and then coming to work with a half-memory, but…

The latest issue of Batman : Gotham Knights (god knows what number it is, 38 or so, maybe) features a Batman : Black and White strip drawn by Sean Phillips, and written by… well, I think it was Alex Garland. I could be misrecalling the name, but if not, is this he of Beach-Tesseract-28 days later fame ? Anyone know ? I know that I shouldn’t be reading “spandex” “pamphlets” if I want to maintain any sense of cool, but I don’t think I ever had any of that anyway, so what the heck.

If it is one and the same, you’da thunk there’d be more of a fuss made. Though it seems this was not the story scheduled to be in this issue, which might be something to do with it.

Whatever, it’s an effective little tale, with the solid artwork one rather expects from Sean.

14:08 / 21.03.03

It is, and you woulda.

Mind you, I didn't like The Beach.

14:23 / 21.03.03

Batman : Black and White kind of has a tradition of slipping in great crators without much fanfare. I'm kind of surprised to see so little mention of Michael Chabon's upcoming Mr. Terrific story. Maybe because they're short stories, they aren't given much publicity.

The Timaximus, The!

16:20 / 21.03.03

Stepping out of "lurk" mode for a second...

I'm kind of surprised to see so little mention of Michael Chabon's upcoming Mr. Terrific story.

Michael Chabon's finally writing some comics? Woohoo! What is this? When is it out? Who is Mr. Terrific?

Tim

14:26 / 28.03.03

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Oops. Sorry. Completely forgot to answer you there.

This is from Comics Continuum.

Chabon noted that he has done his first comics writing, for the JSA: All-Stars mini-series next year from DC Comics.

"I agreed to do it because they gave me a chance to write one of my favorite costumed super-hero characters, Mr. Terrific," Chabon told his Ann Arbor audience. "If you don't know about Mr. Terrific, and I'm not making this up, he has no powers. He has no powers. But he is really good at stuff. On his chest instead of the usual symbol, he has the words, 'Fair Play.' It's kind of a Wes Anderson kind of a character.

"So I asked if he was taken - because this is sort of a book where there are different writers for different characters -- and when they said he was still available, I said I'd do it.

"What I wrote about was Mr. Terrific's younger brother, who was not so terrific, and what it's like to have Mr. Terrific as a brother."

Chabon's story will appear in the second issue and will be drawn by Michael Lark.

I always liked Mr. Terrific, ever since I saw him in an issue of Who's Who. Anyone who wears the words "fair play" on their chest is alright by me.

I just did a little digging, and the mini-series is supposed to start up in May. Chabon's back-up was slated for issue #2, but it appears that Sale and Loeb have been given that issue. The DC previews only go up to June, so I have no idea when Chabon's back-up will come out.

John Cassady is doing the covers.

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The Timaximus, The!

17:08 / 28.03.03

Ah, thank you. I googled it myself shortly after asking (should have done it before, oops...), but I didn't find the pictures. I'm pretty excited about this, as I have been wondering for a while if he would ever get around to writing a comic.