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As Dynamite Entertainment continues their peer to peer interviews, who better to interview The Shadow writer Chris Roberson than master of the macabre himself Steve Niles The two writers talk about inspiration and the Shadows of the past. STEVE NILES: The Shadow has appeared in a lot of different media since his creation Was there one[...]

I talked to writer Chris Roberson and artist Dennis Culver about the book. Alasdair Stuart: For people who've yet to read the book, what's it's premise? Chris Roberson: Essentially, Edison Rex is the greatest criminal genius in the world, and the archnemesis of the world's greatest hero But when Rex manages at long last to eliminate the[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode68.mp3] After last week's show featuring Mike Carey & Sean Phillips in conversation at Malta Comic Con 2013 (which you can listen to here) I'm pleased to bring you this very special interview with Pop Culture Hound's People of the Year … Chris Roberson & Allison Baker of Monkeybrain Comics. We talk about how they[...]

Chris Roberson caught up with Nitz about the new series and his bad-mouthing a certain type of pastry. CHRIS ROBERSON: Confession time: I haven't watched any of the GRIMM series yet But I thought you did a fantastic job introducing the characters and their world in this first issue Was it difficult to balance telling a[...]

Chris Roberson had a chance to chat with Liss about his titular character and the new series. CHRIS ROBERSON: I've always been fascinated by the character of Moriarty, and one reason is the fact that he is so compelling a villain even though he's barely glimpsed in the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories Watson doesn't even[...]

Sovereign is a new comic from Chris Roberson, published by Image Comics in March If you want a high concept, how about Lord Of The Rings But With Black People As Well. Clumsily inaccurate, but as Roberson puts it; So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modeled[...]

Chris Roberson chatted with Tony about his favorite episodes, original vs reboot and the amazing Fred Astaire. CHRIS ROBERSON: Tony, if the internet is to be believed, you and I are the same age, both born in 1970 I was the PERFECT age for Battlestar Galactica when it first started airing in the States, and I was[...]

Chris Roberson sat down with Parker to discuss the King's Watch series and his heroes Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom.  CHRIS ROBERSON: I'm curious to know your first introduction to these characters I didn't really get exposed to the Phantom and Mandrake until later in life, since the newspaper my folks subscribed to[...]

Sometimes it's science fictions, sometimes horror… for Chris Roberson it was the pulps and the radio shows that went with them Mike Raicht chatted with Roberson about them and his current project, The Shadow. MIKE RAICHT: What was your first experience with The Shadow? I know mine was my mom buying me the DC comic book[...]

Chris Roberson was raised in the 70s, but was constantly exposed to the pulp heroes of the previous generations Jim Zub talked with him about The Shadow and taking the character out of his familiar urban setting. JIM ZUB: Given the long history of the character it may seem odd, but how would you sum up[...]

Between his alternate history novels and his work with pulp heroes on the Masks series,  Chris Roberson was the perfect choice to tell the tale of those same pulp heroes when government legislation targeting them is passed Jai Nitz caught up with Roberson to talk about Captain Action, iZombie, and the future for the series. JN:[...]

Three books. All relatively obscure. All now attached to television series. How does that affect the sale and value of back issue? Let's take a look! For

Here are some of the highlights: Chris Roberson, writer for Aliens, said they won't be doing anything directly related to Ripley and company… but the four movies are canon and nothing he does will contradict them There will be an entirely new cast of characters and a move away from the militaristic vibe of the later[...]

Tony Lee talks to Chris Roberson about working on Doc Savage for Dynamite; TL: Chris, you're best known in comics fandom for your work in the Fables universe and iZombie, both for Vertigo What brought you to this project? I've been hinting (not so subtly) to the good people at Dynamite that I adore Doc Savage since[...]

Dynamite have signed a licensing deal with Conde Nast to publish comics featuring the character. And they appear to be being written by a man fired from DC Comics, Chris Roberson Which should be interesting The book is to be drawn by Bilquis Evely, and published from December Chris is quoted as saying; "We start in 1933,[...]

From the sparsely-attended but big-name-filled Dynamite panel at ECCC last night, with the likes of Chris Roberson and Mark Waid amongst Matt Wagner, Ron Marz and more.  Roberson was credited with scripting over Joe Michael Straczynski's plots on the Superman Grounded arc, though has stated that he wrote the whole issues, but had to give[...]

If you missed the first one then you can find that here. If that's not enough, we also have an extensive chat with Bill Willingham (Fables, Shadowpact, Elementals) about his career, the current state of Vertigo, Chris Roberson, Once Upon A Time, his writing process, and the idea behind Fabletown & Beyond. To get in touch, discuss[...]

Chris Roberson writes for Bleeding Cool; PAGE 1 I've always been a huge fan of the Green Hornet and Kato I think I was first exposed to them in those episodes of the Adam West Batman series that guest-starred Van Williams and Bruce Lee, and I later sought out reruns of the Green Hornet TV series they[...]

Masks #1 by Chris Roberson and Alex Ross may be making quite an impact when it hits in November's charts I'm told it has received 68,000 preorders, which is a record-breaker for Dynamite of late Outside of Marvel and DC, that means they were probably just behind My Little Pony and The Walking Dead. Helping get[...]

Alex Ross internal art... it's been a while hasn't it? But if you want a cheap way to get hold of all those covers he's done for the publisher, there's

In an advance reorder market dominated with second prints and new variant covers suddenly sprung on retailers, it's refreshing to see reorders on

Here is a shot that a nice retailer sent me… And with a number of stores being shorted on copies, this year's CBLDF Liberty Annual 2012, also featuring work from Jonathan Hickman, Andy Diggle, Ben Templesmith, Howard Chaykin, James Robinson, CHris Roberson, Roger Langridge, Terry Moore, Kieron Gillen and so many more, maybe in even greater[...]

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; Chris Roberson continues to put his money where his mouth is as Monkeybrain Comics rolls out more and more exclusive, digital (creator owned) titles through Comixology Out this week and available for the incredibly fair price of $.99 is Thoughts On A Winter Morning written by Kurt Busiek and illustrated[...]

Chris Roberson has announced at the Image Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con, his new comic, Rain. UPDATE: Okay, okay, it's Reign, not Rain Seriously, how was I to know that? Chris Roberson has announced at the Image Comics panel at San Diego Comic Con, his new comic, Rain. UPDATE: Okay, okay, it's Reign, not Rain[...]

There's just so much unoriginal crap in the world that we forget about that moment when a story does that-thing, the moment when it turns around, when Xavier stammers out, "Why is that map upside down?" and Xorn removes his helmet, what little bleeder's would probably lovingly refer to as that "punch the sky and[...]

Today, it's been announced that Chris Roberson and Allison Baker are launching a new comic book publisher, Monkeybrain Comics, exclusively through comiXology. Creators for the new publisher, as well as Chris Roberson of course, include Grace Allison, Nick Brokenshire, J Bone, Chad Bowers, Wook-Jin Clark, Colleen Coover, Kevin Church, Dennis Culver, Matt Digges, Ming Doyle, Curt[...]

Issue 1 featured a new Alan Scott, originally the first Green Lantern, who it is rumoured (and reported by Bleeding Cool) will be revealed as a gay man in issue 2. Chris Roberson is a writer who was working for DC Comics until spoke out about what he saw as immoral publishing practices at the company,[...]

It’s Memorial Day here in the colonies, which means the majority of us have the day off. Most will BBQ and drink heartily, while the rest of us will take

iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson famously announced his decision to stop working for DC Comics publicly on Twitter, only to find that decision stepped by rather rapidly by DC, and his Fables arc disappear in a puff of magic Something that one could read into the most recent iZombie issue… Still, it doesn't look like he's too[...]

It's been a busy few days on the DC Comics front… Chris Roberson acts, DC reacts, and everyone — including Jim Lee and Dan Didio — talks about it  Then there's New 52 wave 2 and Before Watchmen sneaks And the week is just getting started. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Is Boy Chimney The Great DC Character[...]