Showing posts with label AUTHOR Chuck Dixon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Chuck Dixon. Show all posts
24 November 2019

Tom Lyle and the Robin Miniseries

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In 1986 Tom Lyle, an aspiring comic-book artist in his thirties, went to a comics convention in Philadelphia. There he met Chuck Dixon, a ...
08 November 2015

“Some outstanding work” in Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder

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Here are nice quotes from reviews of Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder , edited by Kristen L. Geaman and published this year by McFarland. John DeN...
18 May 2014

Adam Beechen on Taking on Tim Drake

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Several weeks back, the Nerdist Writers podcast had a discussion about the challenge in comic-book scripting of taking over an ongoing ma...
06 April 2014

Kyle Higgins’s Two Dick Graysons

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In this recent interview with Newsrama , Kyle Higgins discussed the challenge of writing the character of Dick Grayson in two storylines. ...
16 September 2013

Tim Drake’s “happy personal life”?

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As part of a sometimes heated internet discussion on DC Comics’s decision not to approve a storyline about Batwoman getting married, Gavin J...
11 November 2012

The Exaggerations of Dick Grayson’s Love Life

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A couple of weeks ago , the weekly Robin discussed how in 1984 Dick Grayson was the first hero DC Comics clearly showed having a sex life—a...
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20 July 2012

OIP Derangement Syndrome: The Dark Knight Rises Edition

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In 1993, Dennis O’Neil and the Batman team at DC Comics envisioned a long story of the Dark Knight meeting his match and having to retir...
10 June 2012

Stephanie Brown: The Final Fight

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The last weekly Robin closed with a hint that it was actually good that the Robin storyline titled The Final Fight , scripted by Chuck Dix...
03 June 2012

The Lost Robin Storyline of 2008-09

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Collected Editions alerted me to this curiosity from 2008: the announcement of a collection of Robin issues to be scripted by Chuck Dixon ...
06 November 2011

Robin Around the Web This Week

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At Comics Should Be Good!, Brian Cronin asked for reader suggestions of the Greatest Tim Drake Stories Ever. That evolved into the Greates...
07 August 2011

Stephanie Brown’s “intrinsic importance to the Bat-verse”

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Back when I discussed the second Jason Todd, I posited that death was the best thing that had ever happened to that character. Dying remove...
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05 June 2011

Reborn Robin Reflects Readers

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As the last weekly Robin discussed , when DC Comics introduced Tim Drake as a new Robin in late 1989, it was careful not to offend fans of t...
06 March 2011

A Month of Robin-Related Interviews

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The past fortnight brought four notable web articles featuring scripters’ comments on past and present Robins . These being publicity interv...
20 June 2010

Robin Tweets for the Week

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I’m busy at a conference this weekend, so this weekly Robin consists of some links, most already shared on that Twitter feed . First, in th...
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26 April 2009

Chuck Dixon on Robin—and Spider-Man

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From Joshua Lapin-Bertone's Batman Examiner, here's an interview with Chuck Dixon , the comics writer most closely associated with ...
06 July 2008

Robin’s “Storytelling Engine”

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As I wrote yesterday , at Fraggmented John Seavey writes an ongoing series of posts called "Storytelling Engines," which analyze...