John Jackson Miller
New York Times bestselling author, comics writer, and historian. Author of STAR WARS, STAR TREK, and BATMAN novels. May the Bat-Force Live Long and Prosper!
- Closing today: Five hours left on the auction for the 20th anniversary-signed copy of the first printing of the first OLD REPUBLIC Omnibus. All 1,334 pages of the KOTOR comics series, signed by the creators. (There are later editions on the store, but this one has been in safekeeping for years!)
- My auction's for a Heroes In Action edition copy of the KOTOR OMNIBUS from 2021; the plate's signed by me, Brian Ching, Dustin Weaver, Michael Atiyeh, and Michael Heisler. I've additionally inscribed and dated it with today's date. Plus a signed and dated KOTOR #0! www.ebay.com/itm/11700117...
- New podcast! I joined the Capes & Lunatics show for a fun look back at my year writing IRON MAN, near the very beginning of my comics-writing career. www.youtube.com/live/ZQZWhHs...
- More ways to listen: 🍎 Apple Podcasts: [https://tinyurl.com/bdzychh6](tinyurl.com/bdzychh6) 🎧 Spotify: [https://tinyurl.com/3j6hzcku](tinyurl.com/3j6hzcku)
- My STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC series launched 20 years ago today! It was a blast to write and I'm delighted Marvel has kept the stories of Zayne, Jarael, and Gryph in print. I'm auctioning a special 20th anniversary copy on eBay today and have restocked KOTOR on my store; links below!
- My auction's for a Heroes In Action edition copy of the KOTOR OMNIBUS from 2021; the plate's signed by me, Brian Ching, Dustin Weaver, Michael Atiyeh, and Michael Heisler. I've additionally inscribed and dated it with today's date. Plus a signed and dated KOTOR #0! www.ebay.com/itm/11700117...
- The rest are buy-it-now listings. This is for one of my lowest-numbered remaining copies of the regular Heroes in Action editions from the 2021 print run — it's numbered 7 of 150. Again the plate is signed by the five of us. www.ebay.com/itm/11700114...
- There are also signed copies of the Second Edition on my store,which can be personalized on request: Brian Ching cover: www.ebay.com/itm/11700111... Dustin Weaver cover: www.ebay.com/itm/11700111... And then there's the Epic collection with the first third of the series: www.ebay.com/itm/11623096...
- Announced yesterday by @emeraldcitycon.bsky.social Emerald City Comic Con, I'll be signing there all four days at Writers Block Table 1. That's March 5-8 in Seattle, Washington. More event news and schedule specifics to come!
- Showing INDEPENDENCE DAY to my son for the first time last night, I recalled first seeing it in San Diego with the much-missed Peter David. He surprised me by including my reactions in his review in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE. Nobody could write like Peter! Full review: www.peterdavid.net/2012/01/13/m...
- Doing my math in retrospect, the one-quarter lunar mass wouldn't be catastrophic, but somebody would sure notice it! The ship would also be insanely dense. But as Harrison Ford famously said, "it ain't that kind of movie, kid!"
- (The other thought I had on what was probably my first rewatch this century is how given all the other money there was on screen for crazily-detailed spaceship argle-bargle, the mother ship looks like it came from a cartoon. Which I guess it kind of did!)
- Our same group would go see CONTACT at the same theater one year later as penance to science!
- Enter Del Rey Books' giveaway to win a Batman themed prize pack! One lucky winner will receive copies of my BATMAN: RESURRECTION and REVOLUTION novels, along with a Batman Forever Logo Embroidered Dad Hat and a Batman Pale Moonlight Two-Tone Mug from the DC shop. Enter at sites.prh.com/batman-sweeps
- This giveaway is NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Enter between 1/17 to 2/1. Open to US residents, 18+. Penguin Random House is the sole sponsor of this sweepstakes.
- Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes! Today's also the 60th anniversary of the BATMAN TV series debut, though I hasten to note I’m younger than that. I used to say I was "younger than STAR TREK but older than STAR WARS"; as of today I’m officially changing that to "older than MIAMI VICE!"
- (Tune in ten years from now when I start saying I’m older than FRIENDS!)
- Larry, Darryl, and Darryl will return in NEWHART: DOOMSDAY.
- It was during another cold and gray winter when I wrote STAR WARS: KENOBI. If you'd like your own trip to the desert, the e-book's on sale today for $1.99 from several platforms! Kindle: amzn.to/3LdYBql #ad Nook: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kenobi-joh... More: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/227072...
- Here's my essay about that winter and the process of writing the book: farawaypress.com/fiction/star...
- Thanks to everyone for a great 2025! In addition to releasing BATMAN: REVOLUTION, this year I logged over 50,000 miles, including my first stops in France and Greece — most of it with the assistance of Katie Dunn and others who helped along the way. Next stops: Pensacon and Emerald City Comic Con!
- Executive producer of Saturday Night Live, and I can definitely live with that.
- I asked writer Ann Nocenti about this issue years later, because it had a SUDDEN story twist ending and a tiny typeset line on the bottom of the last page: “With profound regret we must announce this is the last issue of Spider-Woman.” I wasn’t reading the comics press yet so it came out of nowhere!
- Buying the comic in a 7-Eleven, I saw a photo-gimmick anniversary cover, double-sized issue — no hint of a finale. Impacted me enough that years later when we ended my first KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC series (also at #50!) I insisted on a cover hint and goodbye essays. But in our case, we had time.
- Much like TV shows, comics series don’t always get the chance to make a graceful landing. Last issues almost never sell what first issues do (that’s why they’re last issues) so it’s good when you can plan the exit. There are countless comics series hundreds of issues long that ended without a note!
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View full threadFor those interested, here’s my essay on the history of Comics Buyers Guide — and the story of our efforts years after that final issue to rescue its library. www.comichron.com/faq/comicsbu...
- New followers this weekend, here's my intro — to which I can add the release of my second novel inspired by Tim Burton's movies, BATMAN: REVOLUTION, in stores now. And I've been told RESURRECTION has gone back to press yet again in hardcover. Find them at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/CC8/b...
- Weirdly, my first GRAPHIC novel inspired by Burton's movies was FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES, a Disney title set during the live action DUMBO movie. Danny Devito and Michael Keaton were in the film; I took the job figuring that was as close as I'd get to writing them! farawaypress.com/comics/dumbo...
- When we were 12, Steven Scesa and I created a sci-fi universe whose reference guides (actually, huge notebooks) we'd supposedly gotten through time travel. We'd thought them lost until Steven found them and sent them to me. Real Empire Strikes Back-era worldbuilding! www.facebook.com/reel/7998713...
- There haven't been new comics sales to report on at year-end on my @comichron.bsky.social history site since 2021, but my every-five-year look at comic-book series numbering has been updated for 2025.
- Holiday reading: In 2006, I wrote a Comics Buyer's Guide column coining the term "legacy numbering" and indexing how comics numbering had changed at five-year intervals since 1935. My piece has now been updated through the end of 2025. Find the history at www.comichron.com/faq/legacynu...
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