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25-665: Daniel P. Abnett ( / ˈ æ b n ɪ t / AB -nit ; born 12 October 1965) is an English comic book writer and novelist. He has been a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning , and has worked on books for both Marvel Comics , and their UK imprint, Marvel UK , since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD . He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop 's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over two million copies. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books. Daniel P. Abnett

50-453: A plot script the artist works from a story synopsis from the writer (or plotter ), rather than a full script. The artist creates page-by-page plot details on their own, after which the work is returned to the writer for the insertion of dialogue. Due to its widespread use at Marvel Comics beginning in the 1960s, primarily under editor-dialogist Stan Lee and writer-artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko , this approach became commonly known as

75-703: A 'Border Princes , a Torchwood novel, and the framing device of the Doctor Who anthology The Story of Martha . In 1994, he wrote a promotional comic to promote the opening of the Nemesis roller coaster at Alton Towers . At 2000 AD he finished the final book of The V.C.s and started Black Atlantic in the 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 part of

100-685: A couple of paragraphs to something much longer and more elaborate". The Marvel method was in place with at least one artist by early 1961, as Lee described in 2009 when speaking of his and Ditko's "short, five-page filler strips ... placed in any of our comics that had a few extra pages to fill", most prominently in Amazing Fantasy but even previously in Amazing Adventures and other " pre-superhero Marvel " science-fiction / fantasy anthology titles. I'd dream up odd fantasy tales with an O. Henry type twist ending. All I had to do

125-404: A plot outline, and is almost always followed by page sketches drawn by a comics artist and inked , succeeded by the coloring and lettering stages. There are no prescribed forms of comic scripts, but there are two dominant styles in the mainstream comics industry , the full script (commonly known as " DC style") and the plot script (or " Marvel house style "). The creator of a script

150-677: A series in Judge Dredd Megazine that aimed "to bring to the Dredd Universe something of the epic war-in-space scale of the stuff I write for Warhammer 40K." Abnett wrote the screenplay for Games Workshop and Codex Pictures 's CGI film Ultramarines released in 2010. Abnett concluded Insurrection and began a new series in the same milieu, Lawless , also in the Judge Dredd Megazine . Meanwhile, in 2000 AD he has continued Kingdom , contributed Grey Area and began another new series, Brink . He also began writing both

175-810: Is editing." They ended up writing the Prologue, the Nova series crossover and the main Annihilation: Conquest limited series . The characters then became the core of a new Guardians of the Galaxy . In June 2008, Abnett and Lanning signed an exclusive deal with Marvel, which they hoped would give them time to work on the "cosmic" characters they have been dealing with, as well as more earth-based ones. The contract allowed them to finish existing commitments, so they will be able to finish their fifteen issue run on The Authority . In addition Marvel has allowed

200-418: Is known as a comics writer . In this style, the comics writer breaks the story down in sequence, page-by-page and panel-by-panel, describing the action, characters, and sometimes backgrounds and "camera" points-of-view of each panel, as well as all captions and dialogue balloons. For decades, this was the preferred format for books published by DC Comics . Peter David described his specific application of

225-583: The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip. At DC he is probably best known for his 2000 relaunch of Legion of Super-Heroes as the limited series Legion Lost and then the ongoing series The Legion . His work for DC is usually co-written with Andy Lanning and they are often referred to as DnA. The two co-created the Resurrection Man character with artist Jackson Guice in 1997. For Dark Horse Comics he co-wrote Planet of

250-567: The Aquaman and Titans titles for the DC Rebirth branding, including the crossover storyline "The Lazarus Contract", which he coauthored with Christopher Priest and Benjamin Percy . On 19 March 2009, HarperCollins' science fiction, fantasy and horror imprint, Angry Robot , announced the acquisition of three original novels by Abnett. They were Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero , a story set in

275-733: The Horus Heresy series, the SF best-sellers Horus Rising , Legion , Prospero Burns , Know No Fear and The End and the Death Volumes I, II & III . He has also authored four comic strip series, collected as graphic novels, for Games Workshop's Black Library imprint in the volumes Damnation Crusade , Lone Wolves , Inquisitor Ascendant and Titan . Having written the Doctor Who audio dramas The Harvest and Nocturne for Big Finish's series. He also authored Everyone Says Hello , an audio drama based on Torchwood . He authored

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300-452: The Marvel method or Marvel house style . Comics historian Mark Evanier writes that this "new means of collaboration . . . was born of necessity—Stan was overburdened with work—and to make use of Jack's great skill with storylines. . . . Sometimes Stan would type up a written plot outline for the artist. Sometimes, not". As comic-book writer-editor Dennis O'Neil describes,

325-520: The World's End relaunch of the core Wildstorm titles. In addition, Abnett has done a lot of work on Marvel's "cosmic" characters. They expanded on their work in Annihilation : Nova and Nova , and piloted the next big event Annihilation: Conquest . They said "we were approached by Andy Schmidt , who edited the first 'Annihilation' event, and asked to pilot the next event, which Bill Rosemann

350-654: The Apes: Blood Lines with Ian Edginton , as well a penning Lords of Misrule and HyperSonic . Abnett's First & Only was one of the first novels published by Games Workshop's Black Library. His other 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, as part of

375-612: The Guardians of the Galaxy and the Starjammers . This then led straight into " Realm of Kings " which deals with how the different groups deal with the fallout from the events in War of Kings and this, in turn, was followed by The Thanos Imperative . DnA have also written an Iron Man / Thor limited series. He and Lanning have also written Fusion , a crossover series between Marvel and Top Cow . He also started Insurrection ,

400-468: The Marvel method "requires the writer to begin by writing out a plot and add[ing] words when the penciled artwork is finished. . . .[I]n the mid-sixties, plots were seldom more than a typewritten page, and sometimes less", while writers in later times "might produce as many as twenty-five pages of plot for a twenty-two page story, and even include in them snatches of dialog. So a Marvel Method plot can run from

425-416: The Marvel method over the full script method that have been cited by creators and industry professionals include: Cited disadvantages include: In a variation of the plot script, attributed to Harvey Kurtzman , the writer breaks down the story into page roughs or thumbnail sketches, with captions and dialogue jotted down inside the roughs. The artist (who is often the comic's writer as well) then fleshes out

450-399: The alternative history reign of Elizabeth XXX and Embedded , a near future war story with a journalist protagonist, which would have a follow-up set in the same setting. Only two novels were published. Dan Abnett has been writing comics and novels since the mid-1980s, producing hundreds of comic stories and dozens of novels. Comic book writer In comics, a script may be preceded by

475-462: The artist draws the story to fit all of this paste-up. This laborious and restrictive way of creating comics is no longer in general use; the last artist to use even a variation of EC style was Jim Aparo . Everyone Says Hello Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies . A spin-off of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who , it aired from 2006 to 2011. Numerous novels and audio books based on

500-601: The contract to include "a couple of exceptions that are not direct competition, for example, Dan's 2000AD work in the UK and his Games Workshop novels." The first major work to emerge after this deal will be War of Kings , a crossover storyline, emerging from Secret Invasion , that pitches Black Bolt (and the Inhumans ) against Gabriel Summers (and the Shi’ar Empire ) but also draws in other teams and characters, including Nova,

525-437: The full script method: "I break down each page on a panel by panel basis and label them as PANEL A, PANEL B, and so on. Then I describe what's in each panel, and then do the dialogue, numbering the balloons. I designate the panels with letters and the word balloons with numbers so as to minimize confusion for the letterer". In addition to writing the scripts, Jim Shooter drew layouts for the artist in his early work for DC. In

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550-465: The game of the same name, Kingdom and Brink . Abnett has also contributed to some of the comic's major ongoing series, including Judge Dredd , Durham Red and Rogue Trooper . His work for Marvel includes runs on Guardians of the Galaxy , Death's Head 2 , Battletide , Knights of Pendragon (all of which he co-created), The Punisher , War Machine , Annihilation: Nova and various X-Men titles, as well as several stories for

575-562: The roughs onto full-size art board. Writer/artists Frank Miller and Jeff Smith favor this style, as did Archie Goodwin . Attributed to William Gaines (Kurtzman's publisher at EC Comics ), the EC style is similar to the Kurtzman style, except the writer submits a tight plot to an artist, who breaks it down into panels that are laid out on the art board. The writer writes all captions and dialogue, which are pasted inside these panels, and then

600-524: Was born in Rochester, Kent , on 12 October 1965. Abnett read English and matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1984, and graduated from there in 1987. As one of the more prolific 2000 AD writers, Abnett was responsible for the creation of one of the comic's better known and longest-running strips, Sinister Dexter . Other original stories include Black Light , Badlands , Atavar , Downlode Tales , Sancho Panzer , Roadkill , Wardog based on

625-615: Was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he'd be off and running. He'd take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect. The October 2018 issue of DC Comics' in-house previews magazine, DC Nation , featured a look at the creative process that writer Brian Michael Bendis and artists Ryan Sook , Wade von Grawbadger and Brad Anderson employed on Action Comics #1004, which included pages of Bendis' script that were broken down panel by panel, albeit without dialogue. Advantages of

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