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Chris Weston - Attending Saturday and Sunday THE FIRST nine years of Chris Weston’s comics career were dedicated to 2000 AD. Starting off with a bang – with a Judge Dredd six-pager in 1988’s Prog 596 – the British artist remained closely associated with the self-styled Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – until 1997. Although he had illustrated occasional issues of DC/Vertigo titles previously, it was when he began collaborating with acclaimed Scots writer Grant Morrison on The Invisibles in 1998 that his career really took off in the US. After eight issues of the DC/Vertigo mature readers comic he slid back to 2000 AD prior to returning to the mature readers imprint in 2000 for the first three issues of Lucifer. The following year brought the Dan Dare-influenced, Warren Ellis Ministry of Space for Image while in 2001 he drew writer Garth Ennis’s War Stories: Johann’s Tiger one-shot for Vertigo, where he remained for a 13-issue reunion with Morrison on 2002’s The Filth. It wasn’t until 2006 that he produced his next major comicbook work and made his second foray into the superhero genre (the first was two 2000 issues of DC/WildStorm’s The Authority) with a three-parter in Batman: Legend of the Dark Knight preceding his first Marvel assignment: the six-part Fantastic Four: First Family. Since then, Weston’s comics output has slowed dramatically as he has concentrated on other projects. Although he still makes the occasional contribution to 2000 AD and its companion title, Judge Dredd Megazine, his last significant work was the 12 issues of The Twelve for Marvel. Much delayed, the title – which launched in 2008 – wasn’t concluded until 2012.