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Well, it’s obviously his wankin’ arm…

No, Harris can’t do this. He never finished War Heroes.

It is true that between War Heroes and Chin Music, Marvel was smart to make this a one-shot.

Robinson & Harris did a Starman story in JSA All-Stars back in 2003ish. Not quite “almost 20 years” but good news nonetheless. Trying not to buy every comic under the Sun, especially Star Wars related, when there are so many and I can read them on Marvel Unlimited. But I might break that embargo for a one-shot.

This comic will make Threepio as cool as Chris Isaak!

On the one hand, I was a big fan of Starman, so I’m interested in seeing Robinson and Harris re-unite.
But on the other hand, this sort of thing is exactly why I never got into all the Expanded Universe stuff. I dug the Star Wars films, and I loved the universe. Part of what I loved about it was the sense that there were all these untold stories in that big wide universe. But I never actually wanted to see those stories told! I could care less about what Luke did at Tosche Station or where Lando bought his cape or the Wampa’s childhood, and I don’t really need the back story of Threepio’s red arm.

I was just thinking about if Chin Music was ever going to be finished or not. I am going to guess no and it got swallowed up in the void like Real Heroes since like Hitch, Harris is working on other projects.

I remember Droids being one of the better 90s Dark Horse Star Wars comics. With the movie connection, the timing, the creative team, and the subject himself, they are going to sell a ton of these. A million dads will be buying these for their kids if not themselves, myself included.

Pretty picture… but what is the story’s premise?

the Tiki

But what about The Whistling Skull, Round Eye, or even War Heroes

PS: on his twitter feed, Harris reveals that he’s doing 12 painted covers for a James Robinson- penned Shade mini-series. WE’re guessing this marks Shade’s return to the DCU proper after a sojourn in Vertigo-land

At Wizard World Atlanta, Cully Hamner said he was working on something with Robinson (actually he said the writers name rhymed with Bobinson), and that it was a return of a character. I assumed it was Starman (Jack), but after seeing this, I’m guessing this is the project.

Yeah, he’s not gonna be raising that amount of money!

what a doofus!

Its an agressive publishing plan…I sure hope he reaches his goal.

Nothing wrong wih trying and totally cool to see creators stepping out to try something new.

Good luck tony!

and now for some constructive criticism: I don’t think TOny Harris has done any research into Kickstarter. If he did, he’d have seen that the people on Kickstarter don’t donate money just so you can get a fat page rate, with little to no reward. On average the amount of money successful comic projects have raised are between $2000 and $3000 .
And that was towards the actual production of the book: printing costs etc…

If he loves this project so much, do what so many others do: do it in your spare time. One page a week isn’t that much and in 2 years you’ll have your project done. Many webcomickers do it like that.

Already done (thanks to Joe Jusko’s facebook page). Hope it will be successful.

Just curious…in children’s publishing no one will touch a finished project. If a publsiher is going to pay for printing and promotion, they want to be involved in the editorial stage.

Can you actually sell a completed work in the comics industry? Or will you be asked to change some stuff eventually.

“Can you actually sell a completed work in the comics industry? Or will you be asked to change some stuff eventually.”

My guess is that if Harris went to Image and said “Here’s a completed graphic novel” they would be happy to run with it. That’s probably true of a lot of companies that aren’t Marvel/DC.

I’d be happy to kick in, if he ever finishes War Heroes.

At NYCC it was announced that Robinson was writing a 12-issue Shade mini. Nice to hear that Harris will be doing the covers.

@Mike: yes, as Joe said, most comics publishers outside of Marvel and DC are not only ok with finished projects, they often prefer them. Of course, this is because they’re not paying a page rate and are guaranteed on-time delivery, so it’s sort of a win-win for the publisher. I know of at least one creator whose graphic novel pitch to Image was initially reiected, but when he went ahead and finished the entire project and showed it to them, they picked it up.

I was hoping he’d finish up War Heroes after he completed Ex Machina.

If I wasn’t struggling myself, I might contribute to this venture. But as it stands, I’ll have to wait to support the comic when it comes out.

Mathieu,

What does my Facebook page have to do with ANYTHING here? This is the first I’ve even heard of this.

Ar any rate, good luck, Tony! I hope this works out for you!

I second the motion for a Kickstarter for Tony Harris to finish War Heroes. Maybe a new program called Kick-Ender.

First I’ve heard of this Robinson SHADE minis-series in the works. I loved Starman and the Shade mini he did for it.

If its going to be as awful as his recent JLA work, please don’t bother…

You’d think for a $25 DONATION, you’d at least get a copy of the book.

So is this a retitled completion of War Heroes?