John Ridley

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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1997
  • Latest Book:
    February 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark

1 - Those Who Walk in Darkness (May-2003)
2 - What Fire Cannot Burn (Jan-2006)

Book List in Order: 26 titles

  • Stray Dogs

    "It's the heat that makes you crazy. I don't know what it is, but it works that way for man and animal alike. I've seen some peculiar things on a hot day too. I've seen a scorpion sting itself to death. It just keeps drivin' its tail into its body ag...

  • Love Is a Racket

    In his first novel since Stray Dogs, John Ridley offers up a brilliant noir farce about a small-time con man who finally gets it right just before it all goes wrong.
            
    Everything's a racket for Jeffty Kittridge, a thirty- seven-y...

  • Everybody Smokes in Hell

    Hollywood nights are for people with name tags. Call them employees. Losers. Or call them Paris Scott. He microwaves hot dogs at a twenty-four-hour convenience store. His girlfriend just dumped him. And everyone is working his last nerve. Until a sur...

  • A Conversation with the Mann

    What do you want? "I want the Ed Sullivan Show." At the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, like a lot of black Americans, comedian Jackie Mann wanted to be somebody. And for him there was only one way to achieve that: to make it big. Make it, no ma...

  • The Drift

    He was Charles Harmon, a black man “living white” and living well -- beautiful wife, German car, big house -- in an upper-upper-middle-class suburb of Los Angeles.

    He is Brain Nigger Charlie, a train tramp eking out a ragged existence on ...

  • Those Who Walk in Darkness

    Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark - 1

    Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark writes her own rules. Usually it gets her in trouble. On her first day with the L.A.P.D.'s elite MTAC squad, Soledad takes down an outlawed super-powered freak with a k weapon she designed herself--i a definite violation. Her...

  • The Authority: Human on the Inside

    From acclaimed novelist and screenwriter John Ridley (Three Kings, Everybody Smokes in Hell) and hot new artist Ben Oliver (Puncture) comes the WildStorm event of the year! The Authority, Earths last defense, have performed godlike acts in defense of...

  • What Fire Cannot Burn

    Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark - 2

    LAPD'S top mutant-hunter, Soledad O'Roark has outfought telepaths, human flamethrowers, men with steel skin, and every other kind of freakish super-powered thing. But her high-tech firepower is no match for teammate-- and rival--Eddi Aoki's attempts ...

  • American Way

    Academy Award-winning author John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Three Kings) presents an alternative U.S. history with the Civil Defense Corps, a team of superheroes, and their handlers, the FDAA (Federal Disaster Assistance Administration). The FDAA sta...



  • American Way: Those Above and Below

    The Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave returns for an all-new chapter in his alternate history of The American Way! In 1962 Jason Fisher was given astonishing powers by the United States government�powers he used to defend the nation ...

  • Future State: The Next Batman

    The first Future State collections are here! Giant, sprawling future Gotham City is under martial law, protected and regulated by a private security force led by the infamous Peacekeepers. Their mandate is to maintain the safety of the citizens of Go...

  • Batman by John Ridley The Deluxe Edition

    Light the Bat-Signal! Legendary screenwriter John Ridley takes over Gotham City in a new way! Writing the world�s most popular superhero, Batman, Ridley brings his storytelling expertise to DC! Whether his story is told in black and white or captur...

  • The Next Batman: Second Son

    Discover the origin of the new Dark Knight, Tim �Jace� Fox! The estranged son of billionaire Lucius Fox returns to Gotham City and takes on the mantle of Batman after being away for years. Where has the eldest son of one of Gotham�s premier fam...

  • Other History of the DC Universe

    The long-awaited miniseries written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Ridley (12 Years a Slave, Let It Fall) and beautifully illustrated by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Andrea Cucchi is now available in one volume! The Other History of the DC Uni...

  • Superman Red & Blue

    Around the world, everyone knows that when they see a red-and-blue streak in the sky, it�s not a bird�it�s not a plane...it�s Superman. Collected for the first time in its entirety, this unforgettable anthology series showcases fresh new visi...

  • Black Panther Vol. 1: The Long Shadow Part One

    Collects Black Panther (2021) #1-5. If the truth comes out, it could cost him everything! Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley (12 Years a Slave) and Marvel Stormbreaker artist Juann Cabal launch an all-new BLACK PANTHER series with an action-pac...

  • I Am Batman Vol. 1

    In the throes of Future State, the streets of Gotham City cry for justice and Jace Fox answers the call! With a new and improved Batsuit, Jace hits the streets to inspire and protect as he seeks out the voice of misinformation and violence-the anarch...

  • Batman - One Bad Day: Penguin

    BUILD YOUR EMPIRE BACK. The Penguin�s criminal enterprise and the Iceberg Lounge have been stolen out from under him by his former associate the Umbrella Man. The Umbrella Man has removed all the rules for crime in Gotham City that the Penguin put ...

  • Black Panther Vol. 2: Range Wars

    Collects Black Panther (2021) #6-10. Betrayal casts its shadow on the Black Panther's reign! The reveal of T'Challa's darkest secret has led to the Hatut Zeraze hunting him as a traitor, with orders to kill him on sight. The Panther must escape these...



  • I Am Batman Vol. 2: Welcome to New York

    Jace Fox�s baptism of fire as Batman during �Fear State� was the first step toward his next great challenge: a relocation to the Big Apple! Joining his mother and sisters as they arrive in the city, Jace will find new adventure, a rekindled lov...

  • Black Panther Vol. 3: All This And The World, Too

    Collects BLACK PANTHER (2021) #11-15. T'Challa has been banished from his homeland! Searching for purpose, the Black Panther returns to the Avengers - just in time for a mysterious group of terrorists to seize control of global communications! And wh...

  • Batman: One Bad Day: Penguin

    When the Penguin’s criminal empire is stolen by a former associate, Batman faces both Cobblepot and THE UMBRELLA MAN on the burning streets of Gotham! John Ridley and Giuseppe Camuncoli are ready to bring us ONE BAD DAY!2023 Eisner Nominee - Be...

  • GCPD: The Blue Wall

    No one said protecting a city like Gotham would be easy.Still relatively early in her tenure as GCPD commissioner, Renee Montoya sets out to rebuild her department and restore public faith in the historically troubled PD during some of the worst cond...

  • I Am Batman Vol. 3: The Right Question

    Following the brutal, random killing of a FoxTech employee, the Foxes gather in New York for a family dinner to try to do the one thing they have been unable to do for years: tell each other the truth about all their secrets and lies. The shocking fi...

  • The Ministry of Compliance, Vol. 1

    The Devolution’s invasion of Earth will be thwarted by coups and conspiracy unless Avigail can unite her extraterrestrial brethren. Comics’ next sci-fi epic begins in this oversized series from John Ridley.Thirty-seven years ago, Earth wa...

  • Absolute Power: Origins

    The definitive history of one of the DCU’s deadliest villains is at last revealed!Academy Award-winning writer John Ridley tells the tragic backstory of Amanda Waller, in a vital part of DC’s Absolute Power blockbuster!Since the earliest ...

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John Ridley has published 26 books.

The next book by John Ridley, Absolute Power: Origins, will be published in February 2025.

The first book by John Ridley, Stray Dogs, was published in May 1997.

Yes. John Ridley has 1 series.
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