Beaumont and Sunny Jim ("Class War") - Heroes of England

As far as I'm aware, these two characters have only had bit parts (cameo appearances, really) in a couple of stories written by James Robinson for DC.

First appearance: one page in Superman #689 (August 2009):



And from The Shade #11 (October 2012),




At least, I assume that's Sunny Jim:





Neither Sunny Jim and Beaumont, nor Knight and Squire, seem to play any further role in that issue.

I had completely missed this Shade series; I was aware that it existed of course, but never managed to follow it, nicely drawn by Frazer Irving, from what we see here I think it should have been collected in Tpbs, is it worth of attention, in your opinion?

Barry_Allen wrote:I had completely missed this Shade series; I was aware that it existed of course, but never managed to follow it, nicely drawn by Frazer Irving, from what we see here I think it should have been collected in Tpbs, is it worth of attention, in your opinion?

Well, it came out during the early days of the New 52, starting around the same time as the 6-issue Huntress mini-series that people initially thought featured Helena Bertinelli but turned out to be Helena Wayne from the New 52-version of Earth 2.

It featured a variety of different artists, not just Frazer Irving. (Darwyn Cooke was the artist for an issue where the story was set in 1944.) And there was a tpb collection of all 12 issues released back in 2013.

As to whether you should get it, if you enjoyed Robinson's use of The Shade in his Starman run, you might also enjoy this.