Cla$$war
| Cla$$war | |
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Cover art for the Cla$$war hardcover collections. Pencilled by Trevor Hairsine with colouring by Len O'Grady
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Com.x |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | January–July 2002 (1-3) March–June 2004 (4-6) |
| No. of issues | 6 |
| Main character(s) | The American Isaac Icon Burner Heavyweight Confusion Young American George W. Bush |
| Creative team | |
| Created by |
Rob Williams Trevor Hairsine |
| Written by | Rob Williams |
| Artist(s) |
Trevor Hairsine (1-3) Travel Foreman (4-6) |
| Letterer(s) | Ed Deighton |
| Colourist(s) | Len O'Grady |
| Editor(s) | Ed Deighton |
| Collected editions | |
| Series One: Complete Edition | ISBN |
Cla$$war is a six-issue comic book limited series published by Com.x between 2002 and 2004. It was written by Rob Williams with art by Trevor Hairsine and Travel Foreman.
Williams has summed up the story as "a political thriller with superheroes," dealing with a government supersoldier programme and how the leading superhero, The American, deals with the revelation of the truth.
The series, written by Rob Williams with art by Trevor Hairsine, was due to be launched in November 2001, but had to be delayed because of the 9/11 attacks. The first three issues were finally published between January and July 2002 and were collected into a trade paperback in 2003. When the publisher came back from a hiatus caused by problems including a serious burglary, Hairsine had already moved on to Marvel and, while Cary Nord was initially pencilled in as his replacement, a job that finally went to Travel Foreman and the last three issue were published between March and June 2004.Len O'Grady provided all the colouring to "maintain colour continuity". When the publisher returned fully to publishing the series was collected into a hardcover edition.
Although people make the link with The Authority, Williams has said he had not read the series before starting to write Cla$$war and he went on to explain the actual inspiration:
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I also love intelligent superhero comics - a legacy from my dysfunctional youth and the effect Alan Moore’s Captain Britain and Marvelman had on me in the early eighties. So I figured I’d combine the two.
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