Robert Venditti

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Robert Venditti
Venditti at a signing for X-O Manowar vol. 3 #1 at Midtown Comics in Manhattan
BornHollywood, Florida, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer
Notable works
The Surrogates
The Homeland Directive
Green Lantern
The Flash
X-O Manowar
Justice League
Hawkman
http://www.robertvenditti.com/

Robert Venditti is an American

Percy Jackson & The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus book series by Rick Riordan
into graphic novels.

Early life

Robert Venditti was born and raised in Hollywood, Florida, and Pembroke Pines, Florida. Though he says he always wanted to be a prose writer, he rarely read comics as a child, but would peruse the comics at the barber shop.[2]

He later moved to

Creative Writing. In about 2000, while working at Borders, a coworker recommended comics books as reading material to him. Though the skeptical Venditti initially thought of comics as solely for children, his reading of Kurt Busiek's Astro City impressed him enough to decide to change his career aspirations from prose to comics.[2]

Career

In 2002 Venditti attended a convention and met

feature film adaptation of the first miniseries, starring Bruce Willis
.

In May 2012 Venditti began writing the

Valiant Entertainment.[4] Venditti began his first work for DC Comics when he took over from Paul Cornell on Demon Knights beginning with issue #16, and took over Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps in June 2013.[5][6]

Personal life

As of 2008, Venditti lives in

Bibliography

Top Shelf Productions

  • The Surrogates #1-5 (limited series, July 2005-April 2006)
    • The Surrogates (tpb, 208 pages, 2006, ) collects:
      • "Chapter One: Field Test" (with Brett Weldele, in #1, 2005)
      • "Chapter Two: Life Unfiltered" (with Brett Weldele, in #2, 2005)
      • "Chapter Three: Revelations" (with Brett Weldele, in #3, 2005)
      • "Chapter Four: Biologics" (with Brett Weldele, in #4, 2006)
      • "Chapter Five: Pulse" (with Brett Weldele, in #5, 2006)
  • )
  • The Homeland Directive (graphic novel with )
  • The Surrogates: Case Files #1-2 (with Brett Weldele, July–September 2012)

Valiant Entertainment

  • 4001 A.D.: X-O Manowar #1 (2016)
  • Armor Hunters #1-4 (2014)
  • Armor Hunters: Aftermath #1 (2014)
  • Book of Death #1-4 (2015)
  • Book of Death: The Fall of X-O Manowar #1 (2015)
  • Eternal Warrior: Awakening #1 (2017)
  • Wrath of the Eternal Warrior #1-14 (2015-2016)
  • X-O Manowar vol. 3 #0-50, Annual 2016 (2012-2016)
  • X-O Manowar: Commander Trill #0 (2015)
  • X-O Manowar: Valiant 25th Anniversary Special #1 (2015)

DC Comics

Other publishers

References

  1. ^ Fleming, Michael (November 18, 2007). "Bruce Willis to star in 'Surrogates'". Variety.
  2. ^ a b c d Piccione, Sebastian (November 24, 2008). "Robert Venditti: Writer/Creator of The Surrogates". Fanboy Buzz.
  3. Amazon.com
    . Retrieved April 18, 2012.
  4. ^ Sunu, Steve (January 17, 2012). "EXCLUSIVE: Venditti & Nord Relaunch "X-O Manowar"". Comic Book Resources.
  5. ^ Renaud, Jeffrey (October 30, 2012). "Venditti Goes Medieval on 'Demon Knights'". Comic Book Resources.
  6. ^ Phegley, Kiel (November 30, 2012). "Robert Venditti Redrafts "Hellblazer" As 'Constantine'". Comic Book Resources.

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