James Robinson interview at iFanboy

The iFanboy Talksplode podcast hosted by Ron Richards recently talked to writer James Robinson (Justice League of America and Superman) about reviving his seminal Starman series for a one-last Blackest Night issue. Robinson talks about how respectful DC had been about his Starman legacy and how he approached the issue more as a Shade/Opal City story about one of the Starmen. The show is only16-minutes long so is nice and focused.

Mikel, blue-alien ex-Starman, is currently appearing in Justice League: Cry For Justice. Robinson reveals that Mikel will be sticking around for the full JLA series and will actually start using the codename Starman again.

The latter-half of the podcast is revealing as James gives a surprisingly frank assessment of his work load during the Blackest Night even. After saying that the he over committed himself and that he’s scaling back, he says the following:

Coming into the Justice League when I did was probably the worst thing I could have done in that I couldn’t get a really good head of steam. The Blackest Night stuff was coming up. I’m not sure if that was my best work or the best depiction of the Justice League I’ve ever read. I’m sure a lot of readers felt the same way.

He sounds really down on himself when commenting (Bleeding Cool said he almost sounded like a James-Robinson-Hater). His first three issues on JLA have been Blackest Night or preamble so I’m not sure if its fair to consider them representative anyway. I really wish JLA writers found writing the book fun.

Finally, slightly tounge-in-cheek, Robinson comments:

By the way, for the record everybody listening to this: I don’t enjoy killing off characters and I’m not going to do it any more. It’s a much nicer James Robinson that’ll be writing comics in the future.

Be sure to check out the full podcast for all the details about Blackest Night Starman.

[Via: Bleeding Cool]