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Ian Edginton is a British comic book writer. He is one of the few British comic talents to follow the reverse trajectory to the one usually taken - he started with American comics and eventually ended up working for 2000 AD.

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. He has created a couple of new serries with D'Israeli including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he is also producing a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Novels 1.2 Comics 2 References 3 External links

Novels include:

• Zool Rules: the Alien Ninja from the Nth Dimension (Pan Macmillan, 1994 ISBN 0-7522-0952-3)

Comics work includes:

• "God's Little Acre" (with D'Israeli, in Revolver #2, 1990)

• Strange Cases (in Judge Dredd Megazine #1.8, 1991)

• Aliens:
  • Rogue (with Will Simpson, 4-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 1993, trade paperback, 112 pages, 1995, ISBN 1-56971-023-6, 1997, ISBN 1-56971-267-0)
  • "Purge" (with Phil Hester (pencils) and Ande Parks (inks), one-shot, Dark Horse, 1997)

• Predator:
  • "Rite of Passage" (with Rick Leonardi (pencils) and Dan Panosian (inks), in Dark Horse Comics #1-2, collected in "Jungle Tales" one-shot, 1995)
  • "Xenogenesis" (with Mel Rubi (pencils) and Andrew Pepoy (inks), 4-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 1999)

• Alien vs. Predator:
  • Eternal (with Alex Maleev, 4-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 1998, tpb, 88 pages, 1999, ISBN 1-56971-409-6)
  • "Pursuit" (with Mel Rubi, and Rob Hunter, in Annual #1, 1999)
  • "The Web" (with Derek Thompson, and Brian O'Connell, Dark Horse Presents #146-147, 1999)

• Batman:
  • No Man's Land Volume 2 (with D'Israeli, tpb, 2000, ISBN 1-56389-599-4)
  • Batman/Aliens 2 (with Staz Johnson, DC, 2003, ISBN 1-4012-0081-8)

• Xena: Warrior Princess (with pencils by Mike Deodato Jr. and inks by Neil Nelson, #9-14, for Dark Horse, 2000)

• X-Force (with co-author Warren Ellis; Art: Whilce Portacio, Lan Medina Marvel, 2000)

• "The Max Rebo Band in “A Hot Time in the Cold Town Tonite!”" (with Mark Martin & Rick Neilsen, in Star Wars Tales 6, 2000)

• Planet of the Apes (for Dark Horse):
  • "Human Wars" (with pencils by Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; and inks by Juan Vlasco, Norman Lee, Christopher Ivy, 2001)
  • "The Ongoing Saga Volume 1: Old Gods" (with pencils by Adrian Sibar, Paco Medina; and inks by Norman Lee, Juan Vlasco, 2001-2002)
  • "The Ongoing Saga Volume 2: Blood Lines" (with co-writer Dan Abnett, with pencils by Sanford Greene, Pop Mhan, Paco Medina, Adrian Sibar; and inks by Norman Lee, Pop Mhan, Juan Vlasco, 2001-2002)

• The Establishment (with Charlie Adlard, 13 issue run Wildstorm, 2001-2002)

• Starfleet Corps of Engineers: "Caveat Emptor" (with Mike Collins, ebook, 2002, tpb No Surrender, 2003)

• Scarlet Traces (with D'Israeli):
  • Scarlet Traces (in Judge Dredd Megazine #4.16-4.18, 2002, tpb, Dark Horse, 2003, ISBN 1-56971-940-3)
  • The Great Game (4-issue mini-series, 2006, tpb, Dark Horse, 104 pages, April 30, 2007, ISBN 1-59307-717-3)

• Sojourn #25-34 (CrossGen, 2002-2004)

• Scion (CrossGen, 2002-2004)

• The Red Seas (with Steve Yeowell):
  • "Under the Banner of King Death. The Red Seas Book I" (in 2000 AD #1313-1321, 2002, ISBN 1-904265-68-5)
  • "Twilight of the Idols. The Red Seas Book II" (in 2000 AD prog 2004 & #1371-1379, 2003-2004, ISBN 1-904265-72-3)
  • "Meanwhile..." (in 2000 AD #1416-1419, 2004)
  • "Underworld. The Red Seas Book III" (in 2000 AD #1460-1468, 2005)
  • "The Hollow Land" (in 2000 AD #1491-1499, 2006)
  • "With a bound he was free..." (in 2000 AD #1513-ongoing, 2006)

• Interceptor (with Steve Pugh, in 2000 AD # 1337-1345, 2003)

• Leviathan (with D'Israeli):
  • "Leviathan" (in 2000 AD #1351-1360, 2003)
  • "Chosen Son" (in 2000 AD prog 2005, 2004)
  • "McLean's Last Case" (in 2000 AD #1465, 2005)
  • "Beyond the Blue Horizon" (in 2000 AD #1466, 2005)

• Judge Dredd:
  • "Inside Job" (with Steve Pugh, in 2000 AD #1363-1364, 2003)
  • "Tempus Fugitive" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1390, 2004)
  • "Time and Again" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1475, 2006)
  • "Heist" (with Steve Yeowell, in 2000 AD #1480-1481, 2006)

• Witchblade #78-79: "Signs and Portents" (with art by Tony Daniel, Top Cow, 2004)

• Kingdom of the Wicked (with D'Israeli, graphic novel for Dark Horse, 2004, ISBN 1-59307-187-6) [1]

• Richard Matheson's Hell House (with Simon Fraser, IDW, 2005, 4 issue mini-series, tpb)

• American Gothic (with Mike Collins, in 2000 AD #1432-1440, 2005)

• "Honor Bound" (with Steve Pugh, in Star Wars Tales 22, 2005)

• H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (with D'Israeli, Dark Horse e-comic and graphic novel 2006 ISBN 1-59307-474-3) [2]

• Rogue Trooper: "New Model Army" (with Steve Pugh, in 2000 AD #1477-1479, 2006)

• Stone Island (with Simon Davis, in 2000 AD #1500-1507, 2006)

• Hellgate: London (with Steve Pugh, 3-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 2006-2007, ongoing, tpb, 104 pages, June 27, 2007, ISBN 1-59307-681-9)

• Stickleback (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD, prog 2007 and #1518, 2006-2007, ongoing)

• Warhammer 40,000: "Damnation Crusade" (with co-writer Dan Abnett and with art by Lui Antonio and JM Ringuet, 6-issue mini-series, Boom! Studios, December 2006, ongoing)

• Warhammer: "Forge of War" (with co-writer Dan Abnett and with art by Tommy Castillo, 6-issue mini-series, Boom! Studios, April 2007, forthcoming)

• Interrogation: Ian Edginton (interviewed by Matthew Badham, in Judge Dredd Megazine #247, 2006)

• 2000AD profile page
• Dark Horse profile
• Interview with 2000adreview.co.uk

Preceded by John Francis Moore

X-Force (vol. 1) writer 2000–2001

Succeeded by Peter Milligan