Writers' Pens and Artists' Pencils: Dan Abnett!

Dan Abnett has written for comics, creating many characters, and worked in many worlds of fiction! This covers only some of Abnett's work. He contributed to Doctor Who Magazine starting about issue #148 (1988). Abnett created Knights of Pendragon for Marvel UK that started in July 1990. He started a writing team with co-author, Andy Lanning, dubbed DnA, with Mutatis (1992).  It was a sci fi title for Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel. Next, Abnett worked on the long running British sci fi anthology title, 2000 AD, with a Judge Dredd story in #895 (1994). He wrote various stories for the comic anthology to 2008. The DnA team created the character of Elsa Bloodstone in the Bloodstone mini-series (2001-2002). Abnett and Lanning co-wrote the tie-in to the first X-Men movie with X-Men Movie Prequel: Rogue #1 (2000). One of their most impressive accomplishements was the Annihilation: Conquest limited series. The last issue, #6 (2008) was the first appearance of the MCU’s Guardians of the Galaxy. 

The team existed and many of the characters, but the writers brought together Star-Lord, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, Mantis, and Groot. This of course was the group in the MCU’s Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Abnett and Lanning wrote the two issue series, Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude #1-2 (2014). He later wrote the novel, Avengers: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (2018). For DC Comics, DnA co-created the character of Mitch Shelly in Resurrection Man #1 (1997). In 2000, Abnett and Lanning relaunched the Legion of Super-Heroes with the Legion Lost #1 (2000). In 2014, Abnett worked with artist I.N.J. Culbard on Wild’s End, following an alien invasion! For Titan Comics, Abnett wrote Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (2017). Abnett has written the limited series, Immortal Red Sonja (2022-2023) that involves Sonja, Merlin and the Green Knight! For Valiant Comics, Abnett worked with Lanning on Ninjak starting with issue #14 (1995). Abnett explored the Fallen World (2019) in the post apocalyptic Valiant Comics world of 4002 with the cyborg samurai Rai X! 

He also wrote in the world of Barsoom with Dejah Thoris staring with issue #1 (2019) collected into the trade paperback, Dejah Thoris: An Outcast of Mars (2020). Abnett has contributed many Doctor Who audiobooks starting with The Harvest (2004) with the Seventh Doctor. For novels, he co-wrote the novel, The Story of Martha (2008) filling the missing year of Martha Jones in the “Last of the Time Lords” (2007) episode of Doctor Who. She found herself on her own from The Tenth Doctor on an Earth ruled by The Master! His original novel, Triumff: Her Majesty’s Hero (2009), that features Robert Triumff, an explorer in an Eliabethan England with Elizabeth XXX! In the Warhammer 40k line, Abnett wrote First and Only (2015). It is the first book for the Gaunt’s Ghost series. He wrote Horus Rising (2018), the first Warhammer 40k novel in the Horus Heresy series. For Warhammer Fantasy, Abnett co-wrote with Mike Lee, The Daemon’s Curse the first book following the Dark Elf, Malus Darkblade. Dan Abnett is a writer with extensive credits with comics, different franchises, and his own comics and novels. 

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