Today is Robin's 45th birthday. Happy birthday, my beloved soulmate!It's also the day Manhunter #26 arrives in comic book stores. This is the first issue with Robin as regular inker (although some pages were done by an uncredited Rod Ramos - as Robin noted, inking on this issue is brought to you by the letters "RR"), and even though he'd get the same page rate whether 10,000 or 50,000 copies were sold, I'd like to urge comic book readers (particularly fans of well-written and well-drawn female characters) - as well as anyone who wants to give Robin a nice birthday gift - to pick up this book, as it's been given a reprieve from cancellation and if the sales rise appreciably it'll be around for awhile which means steady work for Robin which of course is in my best interest as well. And for the comic book reviewers out there, let me just repeat my pet peeve and beg you to consider actually reviewing the art as well as the writing. Both are integral parts of a comic book story; otherwise you might as well be reading and reviewing a prose book.
And lest I forget, happy birthdays as well to Leonard Kirk (and thanks again to Tom Spurgeon for remembering Rob's and Leonard's birthdays, this time with my favorite Supergirl cover), Paul Jenkins and David Ossman (who's celebrating #70 with a book signing here)!
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