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Tony Isabella is angry at Jim Shooter again, or perhaps more accurately, is angry at Jim Shooter still One of Isabella's fans brought up a long interview with Shooter in which Shooter made comments that Isabella disagrees with The famously outspoken Isabella took to his Facebook page to let the world know how he feels! Tony[...]

Black Lightning was created by Tony Isabella with Trevor Von Eeden for DC Comics back in 1977 Of late, both have been critical of how DC Comics have handled the character and themselves They have both been much more complimentary of the television version. Now, in the finale of season three of Black Lightning, which has[...]

Yesterday that was all about Black Lightning and the reaction of Tony Isabella to how the character is currently being treated Welcome all, to the daily Lying In The Gutters a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive to as an e-mail here. Black Lighting and Samurai[...]

Tony Isabella is a longstanding comic book writer, editor and journalist, working in the comics industry since the seventies, including long stints at Marvel and DC Comics He may be best known for creating the Black Lightning character with Trevor Von Eeden. Tony Isabella Speaks Out About DC Comics' Treatment of Black Lightning Art from DC. But[...]

Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella isn't known for holding back his opinions, but his latest social media post about DC Comics is sure to spark some disagreements Isabella let his fans know not to invite him to join any Facebook groups or visit any pages that have anything to do with Batman According to Isabella,[...]

Earlier this week, Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella took to Twitter to share some very unflattering comments about Batman and the Outsiders, the new series from Bryan Hill and Dexter Soy It seems that Isabella doesn't feel that Black Lightning is acting in character in the new series In particular, he doesn't feel that Black[...]

But one person who is decidedly not a fan of the new series, and in particular the new role for Black Lightning, is Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella. Isabella took to Twitter yesterday to write: Don't try to put a silver lining on DC reducing Black Lightning to Batman's support negro It's insulting to the character, his[...]

But that's not the only comic addressing the issue of gun violence in the works. A group of talented comic book creators including Kevin Nowlan, Jamal Igle, Phil Hester, Trina Robbins, Devin Grayson, Alex Segura, Tom Beland, Matthew Dow Smith, Andy Kuhn, Ande Parks, Tony Isabella, Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey, Dennis Calero, Austin Janowski, Karl[...]

Black Lightning is a great character, and Tony Isabella definitely understands him Jefferson even makes a lot of dad-puns in the form of teacher jokes, and that adds a nice bit of flavor to his character. Black Lightning #1 art by Clayton Henry and Pete Pantazis Clayton Henry's art is mostly quite good here, too It's eye-catching[...]

Comic book creator Tony Isabella recently purchased a Godzilla sweatshirt from TeeSpring, only to learn that it apparently featured artwork by Todd Tennant without permission or compensation. Earlier this week, Isabella was pleased with a Godzilla-themed holiday sweatshirt he purchased from an online tee store, TeeSpring He wrote, "THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: Getting a jump on[...]

DC has announced a new Black Lightning series from Tony Isabella and Clayton Henry, part of the new way all solicits come out now, one at a time. Due out in November, Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands will run for six issues, and DC promises things won't be "a throwback to Isabella's previous time with the character."[...]

40 years ago this month saw the debut of Black Lightning by Tony Isabella and Trevor Von Eeden in his own comic. To give you a better idea of the mindset of DC at the time, they were seriously going to publish a character called Black Bomber, a white racists that became a black superhero when[...]

Tony Isabella created Black Lightning for DC Comics back in the day with Trevor Von Eeden, their first lead black superhero For decades, Tony has stated that he was hard done by, with the way DC Comics treated both Tony and Black Lightning. Recently, however, the news of an upcoming Black Lightning TV show seems to have[...]

It began with Bill Finger's first proper published co-creator credit for Batman, on the Robot Chicken DC Special III… Which was followed up on Gotham… And in the comic books themselves, in Batman & Robin Eternal. Next up, the battle moves to Jerry Robinson. But in that first screen from Robot Chicken, there was also a change in the credits for[...]

Tony Isabella has had a fractious time with DC Comics over recent decades The creator of DC's first prominent African-American character, Black Lightning, Tony has felt betrayed by DC's handling of his contract since Whether writing in the trade press thirty years ago, or the more easily quotable blog of his of recent years[...]

On the panel was Heidi MacDonald (The Beat), Tony Isabella (Tony Isabella's Bloggy Thing), Alexa Dickman (Ladies Making Comics), Rich Johnston (Bleeding Cool) and Graeme McMillan (Many different sites). There was a very large audience and Tom joked about the panel being a pre-show for the next panel (Mega64: Decade of Perfection) which got the audience[...]

Tony Isabella posted; Yes, I have heard the news about Black Lightning.  You don't have to e-mail me, private message me, phone me, or post links on my Facebook page.  My only public comments to date have been "Words fail me" and, to my friend Dan Mishkin, "Forget it, Dan.  It's DC Town." But, really, if you've[...]