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Cla$$war
''Cla$$war'' is a six-issue comic book Limited series (comics), limited series published by Com.x between 2002 and 2004. It was written by Rob Williams (comics), 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$$war Returns With a New Artist Newsarama, June 23, 2003 Publication history The series, written by Rob Williams (comics), Rob Williams with art by Trevor Hairsine, was due to be launched in November 2001, but had to be delayed because of the September 11 attacks, 9/11 attacks. The first three issues were finally published between January and July 2002 and were co ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Williams (comics)
Rob Williams is a Welsh People, Welsh comics writer, working mainly for ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''. He is currently writing books for DC Comics and its Vertigo (DC Comics), Vertigo imprint. Career Williams started out as a freelance journalist and creator of corporate videos. It's a Droids Life: Rob Williams 2000 AD online, 28 May 2008 He decided to try comics writing resulting in ''Cla$$war'', published by Com.x and illustrated by several artists, including Trevor Hairsine and Travel Foreman. Publishing began in 2002 and, after a three-year hiatus from the publisher a complete collection was released in 2009. The comic series was read by Andy Diggle, who was the editor of ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'' at the time and contacted Williams, resulting in a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Supreme Power 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 (comics), Harmony Krieg, and at ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD'', as one of the artists of the anthology's flagship series ''Judge Dredd''. He worked on the first three issues of ''Cla$$war'' but problems for the publisher Com.x caused a delay in publication and Hairsine had already got the attention of Marvel Comics and went on to provide the art for Captain America. He has since worked mostly for Marvel since, frequently illustrating scripts by Brian Michael Bendis and fellow-Brit Warren Ellis. At the New York Comic Con it was announced that he would be providi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Class Warfare
''Class Warfare'' is a book of collected interviews with Noam Chomsky conducted by David Barsamian. It was first published in the United States by Common Courage Press, and in the United Kingdom by Pluto Press, in 1996. Publishing history The book was published in clothbound () and paperback () forms in 1996. It was republished by Oxford University Press (New Delhi) in 2005 (). Influence Writer Rob Williams has stated that ''Class War'' was a major inspiration for his superhero comic book series ''Cla$$war''. See also * Class warfare Notes External linksRobert McNamara excerptEducation is IgnoranceexcerptLooking for the Magic Answer?excerptFull text of ''Class Warfare''from archive.orgFull text of ''Class Warfare''from archive.org The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Book
A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. ''Comic Cuts'' was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by ''Ally Sloper's Half Holiday'' (1884), which is notable for its use of sequential Cartoon, cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside the popular lurid "penny dreadfuls" (such as ''Spring-heeled Jack''), boys' "story papers" and the humorous ''Punch (magazine), Punch'' magazine, which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The first modern American comic book, American-style comic book, ''Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics'', was released in the US in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newsp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA; ) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with advancing national security through collecting and analyzing intelligence from around the world and conducting covert operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, and is sometimes metonymously called "Langley". A major member of the United States Intelligence Community (IC), the CIA has reported to the director of national intelligence since 2004, and is focused on providing intelligence for the president and the Cabinet. The CIA is headed by a director and is divided into various directorates, including a Directorate of Analysis and Directorate of Operations. Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the CIA has no law enforcement function and focuses on intelligence gathering overseas, with only limited domestic intelligence collection. The CIA is responsibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9/11
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the third into the Pentagon (headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field during a passenger revolt. The attacks killed 2,977 people, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in history. In response to the attacks, the United States waged the global war on terror over multiple decades to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, as well as the foreign governments purported to support them. Ringleader Mohamed Atta flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later at 9:03 a.m., United Airlines Flight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ultimates
The Ultimates is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics and created by writer Mark Millar and artist Bryan Hitch, which first started publication from '' The Ultimates'' #1 (cover date 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 a task-force of super-humans and special agents organized by the U.S. government to combat growing threats to the world. The tale chronicles their progress as they bond and slowly learn to work together, 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 January 30, 2002 until March 31, 2004. Hitch described the alternative-reality reimagining as one where, "You have to approach it ... [...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 sho ... [...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 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Statesmen (comics)
"New Statesmen" is a British revisionist superhero comic story. It was originally published in the adult-orientated anthology comic ''Crisis'' between 17 September 1988 to 18 March 1989, with a brief return on 30 September 1989. Written by John Smith and initially with art from Jim Baikie, the story took place in America, 2047 and revolved around the Optimen, a group of genetically engineered superheroes assigned to each U.S. state - one of whom is running for President. Creation Charged by Fleetway Publications managing director John Sanders with coming up with a comics anthology for older readers which could be repackaged for sale in the booming American comics market, Steve MacManus decided on a fortnightly with two 14-page stories, the equivalent of a single monthly American title. Sanders requested superheroes be involved; while MacManus had little experience with the genre, Grant Morrison's "Zenith" in '' 2000 AD'' had convinced him that it could be done well by British ... [...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. Ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
