Dan Abnett
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Dan Abnett (born October 12, 1965) is a British novelist and comic writer best known for writing the Gaunt's Ghosts and Eisenhorn books in the [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Warhammer 40,000|{{#if:||Warhammer 40,000}}]] universe. He has also created strips such as [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Sinister Dexter|{{#if:||Sinister Dexter}}]], Kingdom, Grey Area, and Insurrection/Lawless for 2000 AD, and was a writer on the "reboot" Legion of Super-Heroes for DC Comics and the revamped Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel Comics with frequent collaborator Andy Lanning. ("DnA" split up in 2014)
Most crucially for our wiki, Abnett got his start as a Marvel UK staffer in 1987 (right after graduating).<ref>Nerdy Nothing interview</ref> As well as editing and sometimes writing titles like Thundercats, Doctor Who and The Real Ghostbusters, he did several strips and a text story for Transformers. He was chucked in at the deep end when his second Transformers job was writing up Simon Furman's plot for the continuity crucial "Dry Run!"
Abnett and Lanning were first recruited by IDW Publishing for a crossover in 2011, on the grounds that if they could do Marvel crossovers then IDW's should be no worry. <ref>Nerdy Nothings: "They originally had a creative map of what they wanted to do when they first spoke to us about it at San Diego [Comic Con last year and said, you know, “we’ve seen you handle these huge crossovers in Marvel Cosmic so you’ve got some experience there; do you think you could handle this for us?"</ref> Off the back of that, they were intended to become regular writers alongside Mike Costa but, due to their other commitments, this fell through.<ref>Moonbase 2 interview with Mike Costa ("Special Guest")</ref> The result was six issues spread across two spinoffs that started the plot that Costa and James Roberts ended in "Chaos".