Dan Abnett

Sinister Dexter

Dan Abnett (born 12th October 1965) is a comics writer who has been active in the industry since the 1980s, when he worked for Marvel UK on titles including Doctor Who Magazine, Transformers, Action Force, The Real Ghostbusters and ThunderCats. He created the Knights of Pendragon, later revamping Death's Head as Death's Head II and writing Battletide and various other strips (including the X-Men and various "cosmic" characters such as Nova) for both Marvel UK and Marvel US in the 90s and beyond. Abnett often worked with longtime collaborator Andy Lanning (though the partnership, who were affectionately nicknamed "D 'n' A", have since parted company due to creative differences). He has also worked extensively for other US publishers including DC Comics (again, often with Lanning, on titles including Resurrection Man and Legion Lost) and since 1991 has been a frequent contributor to 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, writing series including Judge Dredd, Anderson, Psi-Division, Vector 13, Strontium Dogs, Sinister Dexter, Flesh, Venus Bluegenes, Black Light, Durham Red, Rogue Trooper, Sancho Panzer, Tharg's Future Shocks, Pulp Sci-Fi, Badlands, Grey Area, Roadkill, Malone, The Scarlet Apocrypha, The V.C.s, Atavar, Kingdom, Black Atlantic and Insurrection. (He created several of these, including the long running Sinister Dexter). Abnett wrote the graphic novel The Lords of Misrule and has also written a number of novels (including some based on Doctor Who and Torchwood) and several audio plays for both the BBC and Big Finish Productions. Summer 2014 saw the arrival of a big-budget movie version of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, a team Abnett and Lanning revitalised in 2008. Basically, he is very, very prolific.