John Barber
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John Barber is a freelance comic book writer and editor in chief of IDW Publishing.
Before working for IDW, Barber published his own comics and also worked for Marvel, editing Wolverine comics and gaining familiarity with wrestling an erratic continuity. He then wrote all of IDW's Dark of the Moon comics, as well as three prequels to the movies to reconcile Chris Ryall, Simon Furman, and Chris Mowry's stories, Alan Dean Foster's novels, the films themselves and character bios![1]
He began his run on the 2005 IDW continuity as the author of the ongoing comic title The Transformers: Robots in Disguise, and was editor of RID's sister ongoing, The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye. In the process he waged a ceaseless war against continuity gaffs and errors, turning the most forgettable goofs into key plot points. He was also the co-writer of Transformers vs. G.I. Joe and continued his run from Robots in Disguise in the Optimus Prime title, all the while writing various other one-shots and side-projects. As of January 2018, John has writing credits on more than 140 issues for IDW, making him the second most prolific Transformers writer of all time and maybe winning out on page count.
Barber was succeeded as senior editor by Denton J. Tipton, and as Hasbro Books Group Editor by Sarah Gaydos.[2]
He later took over as editor in chief after Chris Ryall's departure.[3]
Writer
- Transformers: Sector 7
- Transformers: Foundation
- Transformers: Rising Storm
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Adaptation
- Transformers: Convergence (text story)
- Cyberglyphics pack-in comics
- Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime (with James Roberts)
- The Transformers: Robots in Disguise
- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
- The Transformers Spotlight: Thundercracker
- The Transformers Spotlight: Bumblebee
- "Full of Fire!"
- "Dark Cybertron" (with James Roberts)
- Transformers vs. G.I. Joe (with Tom Scioli)
- The Transformers: Punishment
- Transformers: How to Ride a Dinobot!
- Angry Birds Transformers
- "Combiner Wars" (with Mairghread Scott)
- The Transformers: Redemption
- "The Thirteenth Day of Christmas", from The Transformers Holiday Special
- The Transformers: Titans Return (with Mairghread Scott and James Roberts)
- Revolution (Main story and the The Transformers tie-in)
- Optimus Prime
- Revolutionaries
- Schick Hydrobot and the Transformers
- Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor (with Christos Gage)
- The Transformers: Salvation
- Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel
- Transformers: Unicron
- Star Trek vs. Transformers (with Mike Johnson)
- Transformers vs. The Terminator (with David Mariotte)
Convention appearances
Footnotes
- ↑ Andy Schmidt discusses Barber's challenge in an IDW thread.
- ↑ Editorial Changes at IDW: BARBER Out, Two Editors Promoted
- ↑ http://news.tfw2005.com/2018/04/30/john-barber-named-new-idw-editor-chief-363151
