Alan OW Barnes

… Is one of the creators who got me back into comics after a long hiatus back in the late 90s.

He used to write and draw a book called ‘the 10th’ which may be better remembered than read as it comes off a little cheesy these days. But in the mid-late 90s I thought it was one of the best things I’d seen in a while.

Anyway, it didn’t do well enough for him to keep doing it and eventually he started drawing for DC where he worked on the Teen Titans and most recently, Batman.

Last month he started writing a short, but major, story arc for DC called Batman, Battle for the Cowl.

This was met with much public scorn. Tony Daniel hasn’t written comics for one of the major companies. In addition, the writer who left, the guy Tony is replacing, a guy named Grant Morrison, is one of the most popular comic writers around period.

I was so excited that Tony was writing again I actually went to the comic shop and bought a floppy for the first time in months (I’m mostly a trade reader).

Anyway, he had been keeping a blog for his fans at blogger. He apparently posted an image with spoiler text accidentally and had to immediately take it down. Before he took it down the contents were duplicated and posted by another blogger.

Since then he has removed his blog entirely.

Just wanted to say ‘bye’ to Tony’s blog. I really enjoy his work, and I liked feeling he wanted to keep up with his fans.

See ya around.

PS This is the image with the text blurred because Tony obviously wanted to show the image, but didn’t want to show the text.