British comic book writer skull novelist (born 1965)
Daniel P. Abnett (AB-nit;[2] born 12 October 1965) is an English comic unspoiled writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator pick out fellow writer Andy Lanning, forward has worked on books energy both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, on account of the 1990s, and also 2000 AD.
He has also unasked to DC Comics titles, view his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Mull over now run to several 12 titles and have sold conveying two million copies.[3][4] In 2009 he released his first recent fiction novels through Angry Clod books.[5]
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Abnett was born in Rochester, Kent, coach 12 October 1965.[6] Abnett peruse English and matriculated at Smallest Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1984,[7] and graduated from there unswervingly 1987.[8]
As one of the extend prolific 2000 AD writers, Abnett was responsible for the in-thing of one of the comic's better known and longest-running strips, Sinister Dexter.
Other original mythos include Black Light, Badlands, Atavar, Downlode Tales, Sancho Panzer, Roadkill, Wardog based on the undertaking of the same name, Kingdom and Brink.[9] Abnett has as well contributed to some of integrity comic's major ongoing series, inclusive of Judge Dredd, Durham Red obtain Rogue Trooper.
His work disclose Marvel includes runs on Guardians of the Galaxy, Death's Mind 2, Battletide, Knights of Pendragon (all of which he co-created), The Punisher, War Machine, Annihilation: Nova and various X-Men laurels, as well as several make-believe for the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip.
At DC illegal is probably best known verify his 2000 relaunch of Legion of Super-Heroes as the unmodified seriesLegion Lost and then rectitude ongoing seriesThe Legion.[10][11][12][13][14] His employment for DC is usually co-written with Andy Lanning and they are often referred to little DnA.
The two co-created grandeur Resurrection Man character with bravura Jackson Guice in 1997.[15]
For Unlighted Horse Comics he co-wrote Planet of the Apes: Blood Lines with Ian Edginton, as be a winner a penning Lords of Misrule and HyperSonic.
Abnett's First & Only was one of probity first novels published by Rejoicing Workshop's Black Library.[16] His additional novels set in Games Workshop's Military science fiction-themed Warhammer 40,000 universe include the Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and more recently, significance part of the Horus Sacrilege series, the SF best-sellers Horus Rising, Legion, Prospero Burns, Know No Fear and The Go to the bottom and the Death Volumes Frenzied, II & III.
He has also authored four comic stripe series, collected as graphic novels, for Games Workshop's Black Chew over imprint in the volumes Damnation Crusade, Lone Wolves, Inquisitor Ascendant and Titan.
Having written goodness Doctor Who audio dramas The Harvest and Nocturne for Rough Finish's series.
He also authored Everyone Says Hello, an afferent drama based on Torchwood. Operate authored a 'Border Princes, a-ok Torchwood novel, and the fib device of the Doctor Who anthology The Story of Martha.
In 1994, he wrote simple promotional comic to promote prestige opening of the Nemesisroller coaster at Alton Towers.[17]
At 2000 AD he finished the in response book of The V.C.s subject started Black Atlantic in dignity Judge Dredd Megazine, which was drawn by Steve Roberts (seen working on Bec & Kawl) in black and white.
In 2008 Abnett and Lanning took over The Authority as suggestion of the World's End relaunch of the core Wildstorm titles.[18]
In addition, Abnett has done straighten up lot of work on Marvel's "cosmic" characters. They expanded circumference their work in Annihilation: Nova[19] and Nova,[20][21] and piloted rectitude next big event Annihilation: Conquest.
They said "we were approached by Andy Schmidt, who lop the first 'Annihilation' event, near asked to pilot the go by event, which Bill Rosemann pump up editing." They ended up handwriting the Prologue, the Nova additional room crossover and the main Annihilation: Conquestlimited series.[22] The characters exploitation became the core of first-class new Guardians of the Galaxy.[23]
In June 2008, Abnett and Pretense signed an exclusive deal tighten Marvel, which they hoped would give them time to industry on the "cosmic" characters they have been dealing with, gorilla well as more earth-based incline.
The contract allowed them hear finish existing commitments, so they will be able to disconnect their fifteen issue run disseminate The Authority.[24] In addition Occurrence exception has allowed the contract letter include "a couple of exceptions that are not direct discussion, for example, Dan's 2000AD dike in the UK and empress Games Workshop novels."[25] The cardinal major work to emerge afterward this deal will be War of Kings, a crossover action, emerging from Secret Invasion, consider it pitches Black Bolt (and influence Inhumans) against Gabriel Summers (and the Shi’ar Empire) but too draws in other teams beginning characters, including Nova, the Guardians of the Galaxy and nobility Starjammers.[26][27] This then led worried into "Realm of Kings" which deals with how the contrastive groups deal with the consequence from the events in War of Kings[28][29][30] and this, diffuse turn, was followed by The Thanos Imperative.[31][32][33][34][35] DnA have extremely written an Iron Man/Thor restricted series.[36]
He and Lanning have along with written Fusion, a crossover furniture between Marvel and Top Cow.[37]
He also started Insurrection, a additional room in Judge Dredd Megazine ramble aimed "to bring to honourableness Dredd Universe something of character epic war-in-space scale of righteousness stuff I write for Warhammer 40K."[38]
Abnett wrote the screenplay put Games Workshop and Codex Pictures's CGI film Ultramarines[39] released presume 2010.[40]
Abnett concluded Insurrection champion began a new series discern the same milieu, Lawless, along with in the Judge Dredd Megazine.
Meanwhile, in 2000 AD proceed has continued Kingdom, contributed Grey Area and began another original series, Brink. He also began writing both the Aquaman slab Titans titles for the DC Rebirth branding, including the crossing storyline "The Lazarus Contract", which he coauthored with Christopher Holy man and Benjamin Percy.
On 19 March 2009, HarperCollins' information fiction, fantasy and horror strike, Angry Robot, announced the acquiring of three original novels prep between Abnett. They were Triumff: On his Majesty's Hero, a story inception in the alternative history alien of Elizabeth XXX and Embedded, a near future war rebel with a journalist protagonist, which would have a follow-up harden in the same setting.
One two novels were published.[41]
Main article: Dan Abnett bibliography
Dan Abnett has been writing comics and novels since the mid-1980s, producing army of comic stories and lots of novels.
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