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Cla$$war
''Cla$$war'' is a six-issue comic book limited series published by Com.x between 2002 and 2004. It was written by Rob Williams with art by Trevor Hairsine and Travel Foreman. Williams has summed up the story as "a political thriller with superheroes," dealing with a government supersoldier programme and how the leading superhero, The American, deals with the revelation of the truth.Cla$$war Returns With a New Artist , June 23, 2003 Publication history The series, written by Rob Williams with art by |
Rob Williams (comics)
Rob Williams is a Welsh comics writer, working mainly for '' 2000 AD''. He is currently writing books for DC Comics and its Vertigo imprint. Career Williams started out as a freelance journalist and creator of corporate videos. It's a Droids Life: Rob Williams 2000 AD online, 28 May 2008 He decided to try comics writing resulting in '''', published by and illustrated by several artists, including and |
Travel Foreman
Travel Foreman is an American comic book artist. Biography Travel Foreman gained attention with his work on Com.x’s ''Cla$$war'', where he replaced original series artist Trevor Hairsine.Cla$$war Returns With a New Artist , June 23, 2003 He quickly moved on to work at , illustrating the spin-off mini-series, '' |
Trevor Hairsine
Trevor Hairsine is a British comics artist, whose detailed style has been compared to that of Bryan Hitch. In August 2005 Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada named him as one of Marvel Comics's "Young Guns", a group of artists who have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller". Career Hairsine began his professional career working for the ''Judge Dredd Megazine'', where he co-created the character of Harmony Krieg, and at '' 2000 AD'', as one of the artists of the anthology's flagship series ''Judge Dredd''. He worked on the first three issues of ''Cla$$war'' but problems for the publisher Com.x caused a delay in publication and Hairsine had already got the attention of Marvel Comics and went on to provide the art for Captain America. He has since worked mostly for Marvel since, frequently illustrating scripts by Brian Michael Bendis and fellow-Brit Warren Ellis. At the New York Comic Con it was announced that he would be providing the art for '' Killapalooza'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961 under President Dwight D. Eisenhower. His five years in the White House saw reduction of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, the first manned Moon landings, and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Nixon's second term ended early, when he became the only president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. Nixon was born into a poor family of Quakers in a small town in Southern California. He graduated from Duke Law School in 1937, practiced law in California, then moved with his wife Pat to Washington in 1942 to work for the federal government. After active duty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9/11
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the Northeastern United States to California. The hijackers crashed the first two planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the third plane into the Pentagon (the headquarters of the United States military) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane was intended to hit a federal government building in Washington, D.C., but crashed in a field following a passenger revolt. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and instigated the war on terror. The first impact was that of American Airlines Flight 11. It was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later, at 9:03, the World Trade Center’s Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ultimates
The Ultimates is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics and created by writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch, which first started publication from ''The Ultimates'' #1 (March 2002), as part of the company's Ultimate Marvel imprint. The series is a modernized re-imagining of Marvel's long-running Avengers comic-book franchise, centering around an elite military task-force of super-humans and special agents organized by the U.S. government, known as the Ultimates, to combat growing threats, both of human and non-human origin, to the country and in turn, the world, as they slowly learn to work together and form a family-like bond with each other, despite their differing natures and personalities. Publication history The first volume of the ''Ultimates'', written by Millar and illustrated by Hitch, was published in limited series format and ran for thirteen issues with production delays from March 2002 until April 2004. Hitch described the alternative-reality re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rising Stars (comic)
Rising Star or Rising Stars may refer to: People and characters * Rising Star, a pseudonym of the DJ Armin van Buuren * Aurvandil, the Rising Star, or Morning Star; in Germanic mythology Books * ''Rising Stars'' (comic), a comic book series by J. Michael Straczynski * '' Rising Stars of Manga'', an English-language comic anthology published by TOKYOPOP from 2002 to 2008 * '' Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama'', a 2017 biography of Barack Obama by David Garrow * Rising Stars, a British educational publisher owned by Hodder Education Film and TV * ''Rising Stars'' (film), a 2010 American teen musical film * "Rising Star" (''Babylon 5)'', a fourth-season episode of the science fiction television series ''Babylon 5'' * ''Rising Star'' (franchise), an international music reality television series in a number of countries ** ''Rising Star'' (France), 2014 French reality show on M6 **''Rising Star Indonesia'' ** ''Rising Star'' (American TV series), 2014 American reality show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Power
The Squadron Supreme is a superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, of which there are several notable alternate versions. The original team was created by Roy Thomas and John Buscema, derived from the previously created supervillain team Squadron Sinister. The core members of the Squadron Supreme are Hyperion, Nighthawk, Doctor Spectrum, Power Princess, and the Whizzer, pastiches of prominent members of rival publisher DC Comics' superhero team the Justice League. Many other characters were later added to the roster, not all of which were based on DC heroes. Publication history The Squadron Supreme has its roots in the Squadron Sinister, which first appeared in '' The Avengers'' #69 as a pastiche of the Justice League. Roy Thomas later introduced a heroic version of the Squadron Sinister named the Squadron Supreme, which first appeared in ''The Avengers'' #85–86 (Feb.–March 1971), and which was co-created with John Buscema. The team then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Statesmen (comics)
''New Statesmen'' was a "political superhero series" featured in British comic ''Crisis'', created by John Smith and Jim Baikie, which lasted for fourteen episodes from 1988 to 1989. Publication history Sean Philips and Duncan Fegredo were brought in to cover for Jim Baikie on issues five, thirteen and fourteen and issues seven and eight, respectively. ''New Statesmen'', was the story which, along with ''Third World War'', launched 2000 AD's sister comic ''Crisis''. The series was published in ''Crisis'' from issue #1–14 with a reappearance in issue #28. It was also repackaged for the American market as a five-issue prestige format limited series released in 1989. This had been part of the business plan for ''Crisis'' from the start but only the early series, like ''New Statesmen'', got this treatment. David Bishop ''Thrill Power Overload'', p. 127 In 1990 the story was collected into a trade paperback. Plot Set in America in 2047, the series told the story of a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (comics)
John Smith (born 1967) is a British comic book writer best known for his work on the weekly anthology '' 2000 AD'' and its spin-off title ''Crisis'', particularly the ''Indigo Prime'', '' Devlin Waugh'' and '' New Statesmen'' serials. Career Smith's earliest published work appeared in the DC Thomson's science fiction comic '' Starblazer'' in the mid-1980s. Soon after, he became a regular contributor for '' 2000 AD'' and followed up with the political superhero serial '' New Statesmen'' for ''2000 ADs spin-off title ''Crisis''. Many of Smith's series created for ''2000 AD'' shared the same continuity under the umbrella of Indigo Prime, a multi-dimensional organisation that policed reality, recruiting recently dead people as its agents. The original run of Indigo Prime stories ended with "Killing Time", in which agents Winwood and Cord pursued a demon that had hitched a ride on a Victorian time machine, one of the legitimate passengers of which turned out to be Jack the Ripper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Colan
Eugene Jules Colan (; September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011)Eugene Colan at the Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on February 22, 2013. was an Americans, American Comic book creator, comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series ''Daredevil (Marvel Comics series), Daredevil'', the cult-hit Satire, satiric series ''Howard the Duck'', and ''The Tomb of Dracula'', considered one of comics' classic horror fiction, horror series. He co-created the Falcon (comics), Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics; Carol Danvers, who would become Ms. Marvel and Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics), Captain Marvel; and the non-costumed, supernatural vampire hunter Blade (comics), Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvelman
Miracleman (Michael ("Micky" / "Mike") Moran), originally known as Marvelman, is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books first published by L. Miller & Son, Ltd. Created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American character Captain Marvel, the original series ran until 1963. It was revived in 1982 in a dark, post-modern reboot by writer Alan Moore, with later contributions by Neil Gaiman. Publication history The Mick Anglo years In 1953, the American company Fawcett Comics, which was the US publisher of '' Captain Marvel'', discontinued the title because of a lawsuit from DC Comics. Len Miller and his company L. Miller & Son, Ltd. had been publishing black-and-white reprints of the series, along with other Fawcett titles, in the UK. Rather than stopping, he turned to comic packager Mick Anglo for help continuing or replacing the comic. They transformed Captain Marvel into Marvelman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
