You're listening to I-fan boys talk explode with James Robinson. Baby, can you understand me now?

Sometimes I feel fan boy.

Don't you know that no one alive can always be an angel.

Hey, it's Josh Flanagan with I-fanboy.com. This is our Toxpload episode where we talk to comic book

creators. Have a nice long chat. Today we have James Robinson with us. James

Robinson is a favorite writer of mine. Starman is one of my favorite comic book series of all time,

but he spent time on a lot of different comics at Marvel and DC and all around.

He's, you know, runs on Superman the justice league fantastic for and on

he's got a new line coming out from Dark Horse Comics with a couple of

a couple new titles have been announced and others have not yet.

Uh, Patra and welcome to Maynard.

We talk about that. We talk about the beginning of the career, the current career,

a lot of the comic career and the approach to making comics and all that stuff.

You don't want to hear me talk about it anymore so let's get right to it

Hey this is Josh Flanagan and I am here with comic book writer other things too but we're here because you're a comic book writer James Robinson

Yeah, hey everybody. Hello Josh.

This is exciting because I've been a fan of your work for a really long time and the thing is I actually don't I don't know a lot about you I know your work pretty well

But you have been in comics through a bunch of different eras. I was thinking about this earlier today

You got in sometime around the late 80s is that is that about right?

Very late 80s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very late 80s. I wrote a graphic novel in England for Titan books called London's Dark. And then while I was there, still living in in London I was approached by well Matt Wagner was

visiting doing a convention and he saw the book and he liked he really liked it and he asked me he was about to take a break from Grendel.

So he asked me to take over Grendall and do a Granddall series. So I wrote a series while I was still...

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