JLA writers: JLA #34 preview @ Newsarama & Robinson interview at CBR

The change over from Dwayne McDuffie, through Len Wein, to James Robinson continues apace. Newsarama have a preview of JLA #34 and it appears that the credits confusion continues where both JLA #34 and JLA #35 are listed as the first part of Len Wein’s run. Their description in Newsarama’s preview states that:

Len Wein takes over the pages of Justice League in the first of a two-part story featuring Starbreaker.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICAWritten by Len Wein; Art by Jose Luis and JP Mayer; Cover by Ed Benes and Rob Hunter

However, the credits box in the actual preview itself clearly shows:

I really hope this continued misattribution of the credits isn’t some slight towards the departing writer.

Nevertheless, Len Wein takes over from JLA #35 for his three-part Royal Flush Gang story. That was originally a two-parter, but like a tall tale it seems to be getting longer at each telling. CBR has an interview with James Robinson about joining the JLA and they note that Wein’s run will be four-issues.

Unsurprisingly James Robinson’s interview is noncomital on details of his run, but he does comment on the transition from CRY FOR JUSTICE to the main JLA title

“I was very happy to be writing ‘Superman’ and being a part of the Superman team, but when the offer came up and they asked whether I was interested in writing ‘Justice League of America,’ I realized how exciting it would be to fold what happens in ‘Cry for Justice’ into the ‘Justice League’ book and sort of continue on from there,” explained Robinson.

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“What I’m doing is basically picking up where Len Wein left off, getting the team through the traumatic, incredibly exciting but obviously traumatic events of ‘Blackest Night’ and then from that I’m going to build a new team comprising of some big names from the DC Universe and… well, pretty much, a lot of big names from the DC Universe,” Robinson confirmed.

When asked if there would be any holdovers from “Cry for Justice,” Robinson confirmed, “Absolutely. It won’t be the exact same team but half of the team will be going into the new book. I’ll leave it at that.”

I was also interested in a comment towards the end of the interview

But from where I started on ‘Superman,’ I think the book’s got better and better, personally. I’m quite proud of that but with ‘Justice League of America,’ I think I am now more immersed in the lore of the DC Universe. The chains of communication between myself and the Superman writers and Geoff Johns and editors Eddie Berganza and Matt Idelson and Ian Sattler and Dan DiDio are much clearer and we’re moving forward, all of us together, in a very clear direction.

It is arguably that its poor “chains of communication” that led to Dwayne’s furstration with writing JLA and his ultimate removal from the title. Hopefully, James’s comments means that this problem is delibrately being addressed. We’ll find out in October.