
John Ridley Takes On ‘The Atom Project’ With Ryan Parrott For DC
Mike Perkins will handle the art on the Atom teamup book.
John Ridley is an American screenwriter, director, novelist, and comic book creator. He’s best known to the world at large as the writer of the Academy Award-winning 12 Years a Slave, and Emmy-nominated American Crime.
For comic book fans, he’s published numerous books reexamining the DC Universe. Recently, the lauded GCPD: The Blue Wall and The Other History of the DC Universe were both written by Ridley. His current work is IDW’s The Ministry of Compliance. Other books include The Authority: Human on the Inside, Future State: The Next Batman, and more.
Coming up, Ridley directed Shirley starring Regina King, which is scheduled to debut on Netflix in 2024.
Mike Perkins will handle the art on the Atom teamup book.
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“This is the year in comic books I’m going to revisit a character that I’ve been away from for a little bit,” Ridley teased.
“It was a television version of The Eternals… But good,” Ridley told Comic Book Club.
On this week’s live show podcast, we’re welcoming guests John Ridley (“The Ministry of Compliance”) and Cliff Bleszinski (“Scrapper”)!