Tom King
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Tom King, an American novelist, comic book writer, and ex-CIA officer.
He is best known for writing The Vision for Marvel Comics and The Sheriff of Babylon for the DC Comics imprint Vertigo, his 2012 superhero book A Once Crowded Sky, Mister Miracle for DC Comics, and the "Rebirth" Batman for DC Comics.
Early life
King primarily grew up in Southern California. His mother worked in film, sparking his obsession with storytelling. During the late 1990s, he worked at both DC and Marvel Comics. He studied both philosophy and history at Columbia University, graduating in 2000. He describes himself as "half-Jewish, half-midwestern."
Personal life
The King and his wife and three children live in Washington, D.C.
Career
Before 9/11, King interned at DC Comics and Marvel Comics, where he served as an assistant to X-Men writer Chris Claremont before joining the CIA counterterrorism unit. King spent seven years as a counterterrorism operations officer with the CIA before deciding to write A Once Crowded Sky, his first book.
Touchstone, Simon & Schuster's imprint, released a Once Crowded Sky, King's debut superhero book with comics pages illustrated by Tom Fowler on July 10, 2012, to a large audience.
King was chosen to co-write Grayson for DC Comics in 2014, alongside Tim Seeley and Mikel Janin on art. After penning Nightwing No. 2, you will have no idea about it. Dick Grayson, a young boy from Day 22 to become Agent 37, a Spyral spy, was the 30, King, Seeley, and Janin. King and Seeley arranged the series together and sold script separately, with King and Seeley providing more authenticity by his time in the CIA.
As part of the publisher's relaunch DC You, King and debut artist Barnaby Bagenda announced a relaunch of classic DC Comics series The Omega Men in June 2015. The series follows a group of rebels battling an oppressive galactic empire, as well as White Lantern Kyle Rayner. The Omega Men, who were born in 1981, are DC's cosmic counterpart to Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, but they are much more obscure. Reviewers have lauded King's and Bagenda's use of the nine-panel grid, which has been popularized by Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen's Watchmen, as well as the use of the eight-panel grid.
Vertigo unveiled a new creator-owned project by King Mitch Gerads titled The Sheriff of Baghdad at San Diego Comic-Con 2015. The initiative, which was supposed to launch in late 2015 as part of the CIA, was supposed to be launched in Preacher and Scalped. It was originally an eight-issue miniseries that was later re-titled The Sheriff of Babylon and expanded to an ongoing series. The first issue, which was published in December 2015, attracted critical attention, with reviewers lauding the "deeply personal" story and its characters' "captivating" and "captivating" characters. "Robin Wars," a DC comic book that will run for five weeks in December, is the son of Batman; King was expected to orchestrate the crossover's storyline and pen two one-shots to open and conclude the series.
King was revealed as the author of The Vision, a new continuing story based on the titular character and his newly created family by Marvel Comics' All-New, All-Different relaunch, with artist Gabriel Hernández Walta, colorist Jordie Bellaire, and photographer Mike del Mundo, who was first published in November 2015. The Vision has been well received by the public, with reviewers naming the movie as one of Marvel's "biggest surprises" and lauding the narration, art, and colors.
DC cancelled King's The Omega Men, as well as four other titles, in September 2015, with the series ending with issue seven. Jim Lee, DC's co-publisher, announced that they would bring The Omega Men back from at least issue 12. Lee characterized the decision to cancel the series as "a bit hasty," citing the book's critical acclaim and fan social media reactions as the reason for the title's going to be printed for the planned 12-issue run.
"Will You Be My God?" the King penned a Green Lantern one-shot that links to the "Darkseid War" Justice League's storyline. "one of the finest" Green Lantern tales, according to James Whitbrook of io9, "one of the finest" Green Lantern stories.
After issue No. 2, King and co-writer Tim Seeley announced that they would leave Grayson. On Twitter, the King confirmed that they were working on something "important and useful" and that needed to be delayed. With issue No. 2, King and Seeley officially ended the series in February. With issue No. 17, Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly will take over for the last three issues. In March, there were 18 people in the country.
King had signed a exclusivity contract with DC Comics, which would see him exclusively for DC and Vertigo. King revealed on Twitter that he would remain on The Vision as a writer through issue 12, completing the story line he had envisioned from the start.
In March 2016, it was revealed that King will be writing the main bi-weekly Batman story, which would begin with a new No. 1 is the relaunch of DC's Rebirth, which took place in June. Scott Snyder, a long-time writer, was replaced by writer Scott Snyder as part of the Rebirth relaunch in DC. The king has said that his run will be 100 issues in total, with the entire story being published twice a month later, but it was later cut to 85 issues and three annuals, with a 12 issue follow-up. Batman/Catwoman is the story's protagonist.
With a planned total run of twelve issues, King and regular collaborator Mitch Gerads announced the first issue of their Mister Miracle series in August 2017. In June 2018, DC Comics revealed that King would be writing Heroes in Crisis, a limited series based on a theme he introduced in Batman.
In July 2018, he was awarded the Eisner Award for Best Writer, which was a joint effort with Marjorie Liu.
In May and June 2019, King, DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee, and CW series actresses Nafessa Williams, Candice Patton, and Danielle Panabaker toured five US military bases in Kuwait, where they visited the approximately 12,000 US military forces stationed in the country as part of DC's 80th anniversary of Batman.
In September 2020, DC Comics announced that King would be one of the creators of a revived Batman: Black and White anthology collection, which would debut on December 8, 2020. King was the author on eight-issue miniseries Woman of Tomorrow, from 2021 to 2022. Bilquis Evely wrote that he was the writer. "With the last issue of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow," Susana Polo of Polygon wrote, "I can confidently say that this book slaps front to back." [...] The best thing Tom King has done since Mister Miracle is this one. Since Omega Men, "King has mostly stayed away from sci-fi," David Harth, a journalist for CBR, said, opting for a more psychological approach to superheroes instead." Harth said that Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is "even more innovative than Omega Men's sci-fi" because it has King flexing his muscles in a variety of ways.