Latest Comic Guest Announcement - AL EWING

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Latest Comic Guest Announcement - Al Ewing

 

Attending: Saturday and Sunday

 

Writer: 2000 AD

FOR ALMOST a decade beginning in 2002 Al Ewing contributed to 2000 AD and its Judge Dredd Megazine spin-off. Initially scripting standalone five-pagers he went on to write Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk, Damnation Station and Zombo among other series.

Over the same period, Ewing, whose break into the US market came in 2011 when he was selected to succeed Garth Ennis on Dynamite's Jennifer Blood, was also supporting UK small press publishers; his work appearing in Solar Wind, FutureQuake and Zarjaz among other titles. In addition, in conjunction with artist P.J. Holden, he was responsible for 2009's Murderdrome, a pioneering yet controversial comic designed to be read on mobile phones.

Simultaneously with Jennifer Blood, Ewing (who wrote 19 issues of that comic) was sanctioned to launch a spin-off from that Dynamite title. Premiering in 2012, The Ninjettes ran six issues.

Come 2013, the writer, who continued to contribute to the self-styled Galaxy's Greatest Comic and to the Megazine, was working for Marvel, where, after a couple of fill-ins, he authored the 13 issues of Iron Man: Fatal Frontier alongside the Mars Attacks Judge Dredd four-parter for IDW.

Before the year was out Ewing was tasked with launching Mighty Avengers. He wrote all 14 issues of that series and currently scripts Captain America and the Mighty Avengers (the title that succeeded it) as well as Loki: Agent of Asgard and Titan's Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor, both of which he also premiered in 2014.

The writer, who also scripted a 2014 Thor and Loki five-parter within Marvel's Original Sin saga, most recently produced Ultron Forever, a 2015 serial where each of the three episodes appeared as Avengers, New Avengers and Uncanny Avengers one-shots.