John Ney Rieber
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John Ney Rieber | |
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Nationality | American |
Area(s) | Writer |
Notable works | The Books of Magic Captain America G.I. Joe Tomb Raider |
John Ney Rieber is an American
Career
John Ney Rieber's first professional work in comics was scripting over the finished pages of the graphic novel Tell Me, Dark, conceived by his late friend and mentor Karl Edward Wagner and artist Kent Williams. Initially, Williams approached Wagner with five pages of art asking him to write a story around that. Wagner agreed, and the pair signed a contract with DC Comics to release an 80-page hardcover graphic novel.[1] At the beginning of production, the book's initial editor Karen Berger took an extended maternity leave. The replacement editors accepted Wagner's script, but as soon as Berger returned, she rejected the script and asked for rewrites, while Williams also changed some narrative elements as he saw fit. One year later, as the changes from all sides kept being made, Rieber, who at the time was working on the 4-issue prestige mini-series Shadows Fall for Disney Comics' failed Touchmark imprint,[2][3] offered to rewrite the story using the finished pages after seeing the struggles that Wagner and Williams were going through:
It's a long story and not at all very fun to talk about, but the upshot of it all was that I ended taking the art that Kent had already done and generated a completely different story around it. DC had been unhappy about what they had gotten from Karl and they had pretty much decided that if they couldn't get revisions they would not publish the book. It meant among other things that Kent would have wasted a year of his life and a lot of beautiful art, so I gave Kent my script and an option of showing it to Karen Berger, if he felt like that was something he wanted to do, and eventually it was something he wanted to do.[4]
After the collapse of Disney Comics,
Rieber's next major project was a
The series itself was plagued by delays and controversy from the very beginning. According to Macan, who received the information from the outgoing Captain America editor Andrew Lis, Rieber had to back out of writing the bridging mini-series due to the September 11 attacks, supposedly, to rewrite whatever material he already had to reflect on the event.[8] The first arc, titled "The New Deal" (February to November 2002), had Captain America questioning the American government, with the topic receiving worldwide coverage in the press.[10][11] While Rieber's original outline for the series was supposed to start with "The Extremists", which became the title's second arc,[9] he ended up leaving the assignment halfway into that storyline, with three issues finished out of five planned:
Probably the simplest way that I can describe what happened is that Joe Quesada has a very clear vision about what he wants Cap to be, and my Cap just wasn't quite what he was looking for. They liked a lot of my ideas, but some of the approaches that I had to storytelling and structuring things and the weighting of the character just wasn't meshing with his vision. In the end, I was doing lots and lots of rewriters of scripts, and it was slowing things down. We all reached a place where we realized that it might be better if someone else was doing the book. I guess that's the long way of saying that we had creative differences.[12]
To finish both "The Extremists" and "Ice" (which, by the time Rieber left, had only one fully scripted issue), Marvel hired Chuck Austen who was also rejected at the launch in favor of Rieber but still agreed to bring his plots to a close.[12]
Bibliography
DC Comics
- ISBN 1-5638-9088-7)
- The book is scripted by Rieber over pages of Williams' art, which were drawn for an earlier script written by Karl Edward Wagner.
- For more information, see the Career section.
- Vertigo:
- The Books of Magic:
- ISBN 1-5638-9401-7)
- The Books of Magic vol. 2 (with Gary Amaro, Peter Gross, Peter Snejbjerg, John Ridgway (#20) and Jill Thompson (#42), 1994–1998) collected as:
- Bindings (collects #1–4, tpb, 112 pages, 1995, ISBN 1-5638-9187-5)
- Summonings (collects #5–13, tpb, 240 pages, 1996, ISBN 1-5638-9265-0)
- Includes "The Lot" short story (art by Gary Amaro) from Vertigo Rave (one-shot, 1994)
- Reckonings (collects #14–20, tpb, 224 pages, 1997, ISBN 1-5638-9321-5)
- Transformations (collects #21–25, tpb, 128 pages, 1998, ISBN 1-5638-9417-3)
- Girl in the Box (collects #26–32, tpb, 192 pages, 1999, ISBN 1-5638-9539-0)
- The Burning Girl (collects #33–41, tpb, 192 pages, 2000, ISBN 1-5638-9619-2)
- Death After Death (collects #42–50, tpb, 224 pages, 2001, ISBN 1-5638-9740-7)
- Bindings (collects #1–4, tpb, 112 pages, 1995,
- The Books of Magic Annual:
- ISBN 1-5638-9502-1) includes:
- "Dark as Day, My Lady, Bright as Night" (with Mark Buckingham, in #1, 1997)
- "Horn" (with Jamie Tolagson, in #2, 1998)
- "The Kite" (with Peter Gross, co-feature in #3, 1999)
- Hellblazer/The Books of Magic #1–2 (co-written by Rieber and Paul Jenkins, art by Paul Lee, 1997–1998)
- Winter's Edge #1: "Thanks for Nothing" (with Steve Parkhouse, anthology, 1998)
- Shadows Fall #1–6 (with John Van Fleet, 1994–1995)
- Mythos: The Final Tour #1–3 (with Gary Amaro (#1), Peter Snejbjerg (#2) and Teddy Kristiansen + Dean Ormston (#3), 1996–1997)
- Weird War Tales vol. 2 #4: "Salvation" (with Danijel Žeželj, anthology, 1997)
- The Trenchcoat Brigade #1–4: "Misery" (with John Ridgway, 1999)
- Hermann Mejia and Ryan Kelly(#4), 1999)
- Strange Adventures vol. 2 #4: "Perfect Stranger" (with Danijel Žeželj, anthology, 2000)
- ISBN 1-4012-1454-1)
- The Books of Magic:
Other publishers
- ISBN 0-7434-7476-7)
- Marvel:
- ISBN 1-3029-2390-0)
- Captain America vol. 4 (with John Cassaday, Trevor Hairsine (#7–9) and Jae Lee (#12); issues #8–9 and 12 are scripted by Chuck Austen from Rieber's plots, Marvel Knights, 2002–2003) collected as:
- The New Deal (collects #1–6, hc, 176 pages, 2003, ISBN 0-7851-1101-8)
- The Extremists (includes #7–9, tpb, 120 pages, 2003, ISBN 0-7851-1102-6)
- Ice (includes #12, tpb, 128 pages, 2003, ISBN 0-7851-1103-4)
- Marvel Knights: Captain America Volume 1 (includes #1–9 and 12, tpb, 408 pages, 2016, ISBN 0-7851-9633-1)
- The New Deal (collects #1–6, hc, 176 pages, 2003,
- ISBN 1-6299-1277-8)
- The entire issue is plotted by Rieber and Neil Gaiman, with various writers scripting each individual story:
- The framing sequence, "Adam Cain", is written by Rieber and drawn by Shea Anton Pensa.
- "Lady Justice" is written by C. J. Henderson and drawn by Michael Netzer.
- "Mr. Hero" is written by James Vance and drawn by Ted Slampyak.
- "Teknophage" is written by Rick Veitch and drawn by Bryan Talbot.
- The entire issue is plotted by Rieber and Neil Gaiman, with various writers scripting each individual story:
- Image:
- Top Cow, 2002–2003) collected as:
- Tomb Raider Compendium (includes #21–31, tpb, 1,280 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-5824-0803-3)
- Tomb Raider Archives Volume 2 (includes #21–24 and 26–31, hc, 464 pages, ISBN 1-5067-0352-6)
- Tomb Raider Compendium (includes #21–31, tpb, 1,280 pages, 2006,
- 24Seven (series of anthology graphic novels):
- Volume 1: "The Pit" (with ISBN 1-58240-636-7)
- Volume 2: "Cane" (with ISBN 1-5824-0846-7)
- Volume 1: "The Pit" (with
- ISBN 1-5824-0964-1)
- G.I. Joe (Devil's Due):
- ISBN 0-9733-8179-5)
- ISBN 1-9327-9602-9)
- G.I. Joe Reloaded (with Javier Saltares, Eddy Barrows (#1), Ron Lim (#3), Jason Millet and Darryl Banks (#7), 2004) collected as:
- In the Name of Patriotism (collects #1–6, tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-9327-9623-1)
- An Act of Treason (includes #7–9, tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-9327-9622-3)
- In the Name of Patriotism (collects #1–6, tpb, 144 pages, 2005,
- ISBN 0-7615-5744-X)
- digital mini-comic, Dark Horse, 2018)[13]
References
- ^ Sinor, Bradley. "EXCELLENCE DEMANDED, WHINERS PISS OFF: The Last Interview of Karl Edward Wagner". karledwardwagner.org. Archived from the original on April 8, 2014.
- ^ a b Cronin, Brian (July 1, 2011). "Comic Book Legends Revealed #321". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011.
- ^ Klein, Todd (September 12, 2008). "Logos That Never Were: TOUCHMARK". kleinletters.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2008.
- ^ a b Andreasen, Henrik (December 1, 1995). "Interview with John Ney Rieber". Serie Journalen. Archived from the original on June 20, 2008.
- ^ Weiland, Jonah (August 4, 2001). "CASSADAY, NEY RIEBER TO TAKE ON MARVEL KNIGHTS CAPTAIN AMERICA IN 2002". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on January 11, 2002.
- ^ a b Medinnus, David (October 24, 2002). "Interview with John Ney Rieber". The Star-Spangled Site. Archived from the original on December 19, 2002.
- ^ Bell, Josh (November 6, 2013). "Greg Rucka Brings "Lazarus" & "Veil" to Las Vegas". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on April 14, 2014.
- ^ a b c Cronin, Brian (April 25, 2014). "Comic Book Legends Revealed #468". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on April 27, 2014.
- ^ a b Yarbrough, Beau (October 11, 2002). "RIEBER AND HAIRSINE GET 'EXTREME' IN 'CAPTAIN AMERICA'". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on October 21, 2002.
- ^ Medved, Michael (April 4, 2003). "Captain America, Traitor?". National Review. Archived from the original on April 4, 2003.
- ^ Von Törne, Lars (August 17, 2011). "Zur Hölle mit der Pistole". Der Tagesspiegel. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014.
- ^ a b Brady, Matt (December 19, 2002). "RIEBER OFF CAP, AUSTEN ON". Newsarama. Archived from the original on February 23, 2003.
- ^ "NYCC 2018: Occult Historical Thriller "Unknown 9 Archives" Arrives this Spring". Dark Horse Comics. September 27, 2018. Archived from the original on December 21, 2018.
External links
- John Ney Rieber at the Grand Comics Database
- John Ney Rieber at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)