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Interviews: City of Heroes Novel #2
Interview: Robin Laws
Filed 04/11/2006 by Shannon "Vandemar" Drake
When the series editor for the City of Heroes novels contacted us and asked if we'd like to do interviews with the authors, well, how could we refuse? The first installment is here. Today, we present the second installment with Robin Laws, author of City of Heroes #2: The Freedom Phalanx.
WarCry: Is there anything you’d like to say to the fans of City of Heroes that are waiting for your book?
I'm anxiously anticipating your reactions to it. The book is for the fans, and I hope you dig it. It's also written for the general fan of super fiction, so if your friends like capes and costumes but aren't into the MMORPG scene, this is something you can turn them onto. Judging by George Perez's fabulous cover roughs, this is a product you'll want to buy and bag just for that image alone.
From www.amazon.com, thanks to Ilke Hincer
City of Heroes: The Freedom Phalanx (City of Heroes)
by Robin Laws
List Price: $6.99
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: CDS Books (May 30, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN: 1593152213
Book Description
Despair stalks the streets of Paragon City. Five decades after Statesman and his allies first formed the Freedom Phalanx, that legendary group of heroes is no more and power-mad villains stand poised on the brink of ultimate victory. The fledgling hero Positron has a plan to stop them: rebuild the Freedom Phalanx. But the world's mightiest champions--Statesman, Sister Psyche, Synapse, and Manticore--no longer see the point of battling alongside others, not when they have their own private wars to wage and personal demons to conquer. For Positron to forge a new Freedom Phalanx and save Paragon City from the schemes of the dreaded Tyranny Legion, he must first save the heroes from their greatest enemies--themselves.
From James Lowder
From George Pérez
UNTITLED #1 (Jimenez, Garcia-Lopez)
(Jun 2005)
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FALLEN ANGEL #20
(May 2005)
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TITANS: GAMES GN
(Fall 2005)
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CITY OF HEROES #1 (Cover C)
(May 2005)
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CITY OF HEROES: WEB OF ARACHNOS #1
(Summer 2005)
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FANTASTIC FOUR VISIONARIES: GEORGE PEREZ VOLUME 1
(June 2005)
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WITCHBLADE (10th Anniversary)
(Summer 2005)
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MODERN MASTERS #2: GEORGE PEREZ (DVD COMPANION)
(2005)
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B.A.B.E. FORCE
(2005)
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RED SONJA (Dynamic Forces)
(2005)
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ARMY OF DARKNESS (Dynamic Forces)
(2005)
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STORYTELLER (Dynamic Forces)
(2005)
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I am currently inking the incredible Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez on a project written by Phil Jimenez, who is also the cover penciler, with me inking Phil. Unfortunately, beyond that, I'm not at liberty to reveal what the project is so I've been calling it "The EZ Company Project" since all three creators share the same last two letters in our family names. DC Comics should be making an announcement relatively soon and it will be a relief to finally be able to talk about it openly.
Contrary to solicitations I have indeed drawn the cover for FALLEN ANGELS #20. Due to a mix-up in the scheduling it initially appeared that I couldn't do the cover, so the regular team was told to go ahead and draw the cover. When Peter David found out about that he reminded the editor that the deadlines had been pushed back and even though the book had been solicited with another cover, Peter figured few would be bummed out to find that there was a Pérez cover after all.
I have also drawn a cover for a Marvel Visionaries book spotlighting my 1970's run on FANTASTIC FOUR. Tom Smith colored that piece and, as usual, did a wonderful job.
I am currently drawing a variant cover for Top Cow's CITY OF HEROES #1 and will be drawing the cover for a CITY OF HEROES novel called "Web of Arachnos". This should be the first of three covers for a series of CoH novels. And since I just mentioned Top Cow, I should also announce that I will be participating in a special 10th Anniversary edition of WITCHBLADE. I will be drawing three pages written by Ron Marz. And as I draw those pages I will be filmed by a video crew for TwoMorrows' DVD companion to its MODERN MASTERS book series.
There have been other offers, including some covers for Dynamic Forces' RED SONYA and ARMY OF DARKNESS. I also will be providing a cover for DF's STORYTELLER, yet another retrospective on my career. (I am definitely being over-exposed). A cover for ForceWerks' B.A.B.E. FORCE is also on my schedule. There have been other one-shots I've been offered that I'm not yet free to discuss, or yet to accept, but after "The EZ Company Project" I will be primarily focusing my attention on completing GAMES: THE TITANS GRAPHIC NOVEL. Inker Mike Perkins has already started on some pages and Tom Smith has 30 pages ready to start so it's up to me to get busy so that Marv Wolfman can start dialoguing the first half of the book.
As for conventions this year, here's my schedule for 2005 so far.
February 25-27: Mega Con in Orlando, FL.
March 18-20: Wizard World Los Angeles in Long Beach, CA
April 22-24: Pittsburgh Comicon in Monroeville, PA (I even provided the T-Shirt art)
July 14-17: Comic-Con International in San Diego, CA
September 13-17: Comic Book Festival in Avilés, Spain
Those are the confirmed shows. There is a possibility of more, but I'm trying to limit my time away from the drawing board this year.
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June 28, 2004 07:32 pm | Perez Influences |
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From Vu
Subject: Perez Influences (3 links)
Date: Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:55 pm
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CITY OF HEROES (Game) Interview
Tuesday, March 09, 2004 12:26:08 PM
(excerpt)
There are a wealth of comic books around which must have been a major
source of ideas for the game. Are these also where some of the ideas
for the CoH story arcs will draw inspiration from? Are there any
writers, stories or comic books in particular which you would cite as
favourites?
Jack Emmert (lead designer): My personal inspirations have been George
Perez and Marv Wolfman's New Teen Titans, and John Byrne and Chris
Clairemont's Uncanny X-Men. I think that these comics were the first
to take into consideration the adult reader. Instead of being perfect,
heroes were portrayed as regular, normal people with abnormal powers.
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