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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 comic book writer.
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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 comic book writer.
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, Art Young, Touchmark's Editor-in-Chief, went back to DC Comics and offered everyone he was developing projects with to continue working for DC's new imprint Vertigo. [2] Rieber and his collaborator John Van Fleet agreed, and Shadows Fall was released as a 6-issue regular format mini-series from November 1994 to April 1995. Sometime between Tell Me, Dark and Shadows Fall, Rieber was approached by Berger to write an ongoing continuation of Neil Gaiman's The Books of Magic mini-series; despite having every proposal and outline rejected by editorial and even once trying to quit the idea, [4] Rieber was still hired and wrote the book from issue #1 (May 1994) to 50 (July 1998), including various annuals, specials and spin-offs.
Rieber's next major project was a Captain America relaunch for the Marvel Comics' Marvel Knights imprint, first announced in August 2001. [5] Commenting on the assignment, Rieber said he was hired "accidentally", [6] after then-Marvel Knights editor Stuart Moore mentioned the book in a conversation, offered Rieber to write some samples and liked them enough to give him the book (despite "looking for a heavy hitter <...> like Frank Miller or Greg Rucka"; [6] in a 2013 interview, Rucka confirmed he wrote some samples for that relaunch but was rejected in favor of Rieber.) [7] In addition to the ongoing Captain America series, Rieber was supposed to write two mini-series starring the character: the out-of-continuity Captain America: Ice, which was announced in February 2002 by the artist Jae Lee and subsequently integrated into the main book as its third arc, [8] [9] and another one, unannounced, which was supposed to bridge the three-month gap between the previous volume and the Marvel Knights one (the writer of the eventual bridging mini-series Darko Macan later confirmed that it was Rieber who was supposed to be the original writer.) [8]
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]
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