With One Magic Word

The issue of Batgirl you bought this month traveled through Western Massachusetts. That's where inker Jack Purcell lives. Purcell is inking issues 2, 4 and 6 of the 6-issue Batgirl mini-series. Issue 4 came out on Oct. 15. Batgirl #6 ships on Dec. 17. In between, Purcell will be in Boston this Sunday, Nov. 2, for the 4th Boston Comic Con. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Back Bay Events Center, 180 Berkeley St. Admission is $10; children under 10 enter free. Purcell said it's hi… Continue

Trevor Von Eeden's pencils are as sharp as the lightning bolts hurled by his signature character. More than 30 years after he and writer Tony Isabella debuted DC's Black Lightning, Von Eeden remains associated in fans' minds with him. And given a chance, Von Eeden would draw him again. Most recently, the artist's drawing boards were dominated by "my first self-written book," a 240-page graphic novel biography of boxer Jack Johnson, the original black heavyweight champ. The story is "told from… Continue

The CW Network's latest super-hero show is for the birds: http://www.newsarama.com/tv/100801-GraysonsonCW.html . I definitely can see Robin appealing to the CW crowd. Good-looking, smart, athletic male teen. The girls will love him. The Jonas Brothers had better enjoy their 15 minutes, because there's a new cover boy. Heck, send over Bart Allen and Vic Stone from Smallville, and you've got the makings of a live action Teen Titans show. But please. "D.J." Grayson??? Since when has th… Continue

Trevor Von Eeden. Soon. This is sooo gonna rock. I fondly remember the Green Arrow mini he drew back in the 1980s ...

Six degrees of separation, comics-style. Turns out that inker Bob Almond -- check here for our interview from this spring -- and I have a mutual friend. Bob knows Paul Pereira, whom I lived with on campus at SMU/UMass-Dartmouth back in the late '80s. We're all in the same graduating class, 1990.