In 2002 Venditti attended a convention and met Chris Staros from Top Shelf Productions, and was added to Staros' email list.
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.
In about 2000, while working at Borders, a coworker recommended comics books as reading material to him. John/ Titusville area in Brevard County to which his parents had moved, where he attended the University of Central Florida, working at a Borders Books store in Winter Park, while earning his M.A.
After subsequently worked pumping gas on a fuel truck, he moved to the Port St. After college he worked as a clerk at a law firm in southern Florida with aspirations to practice law, but found that work not to his liking. He later moved to Gainesville to attend the University of Florida where he received a B.A. 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. Robert Venditti was born in Memorial Hospital and raised in Hollywood, and Pembroke Pines, Florida. He has also adapted the Percy Jackson & The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus book series by Rick Riordan into graphic novels.
He is also known for his work on DC Comics titles such as The Flash, Green Lantern, Justice League, and Hawkman. 1 Deluxe Oversized HC also comes jam-packed with more than 20 pages of never-before-seen art and extras, direct from the Valiant vaults.Robert Venditti is an American comic book writer, known for his work on the Top Shelf Productions title The Surrogates, which was adapted to a major motion picture starring Bruce Willis directed by Jonathan Mostow for Disney., and for the Valiant Comics title X-O Manowar. Now he will give them war.Ĭollecting the sold-out X-O MANOWAR #1-14, the X-O Manowar Vol. Stranded in the modern day, X-O Manowar's battle against the Vine will take him into the shadows with the lethal operative known as Ninjak - and launch a quest for vengeance that will bring an alien empire to its knees. An oversized, deluxe hardcover collecting X-O Manowar's complete first year in the Valiant Universe!įrom the epic origin to the battle for Planet Death, the definitive tale of Valiant's flagship hero comes together in this prestige-sized collection by New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Green Lantern, The Surrogates) and comics visionaries Cary Nord (Conan), Lee Garbett (Batman: RIP), and Trevor Hairsine (X-Men: Deadly Genesis).Īric of Dacia, a fifth century Visigoth armed with the universe's most powerful weapon, is all that stands between the Earth and all-out annihilation at the hands of the alien race that abducted him from his own time.
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