15 Facts About Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan was born on 24 June 1961 and is a British comic book writer who has written extensively for both British and American comic book industries.

Peter Milligan started his comic career with Sounds music paper's comic strip The Electric Hoax, with Brendan McCarthy, with whom he went to art school.

Peter Milligan later moved to write short stories for 2000 AD in the early 1980s.

Peter Milligan was to become a regular writer for DC while still working on his more personal comics in the United Kingdom in comics such as 2000 AD, and its spin-off titles Crisis and Revolver.

Peter Milligan quickly followed this up with The Extremist with artist Ted McKeever.

Peter Milligan spent the remainder of the decade writing one-off specials such as Face and The Eaters, or miniseries like Egypt and Tank Girl The Odyssey, as well as acting as advisory editor to Paul Honeyford's Fighting Figurines.

Peter Milligan rounded out the decade by writing a The Human Target four-issue miniseries.

Peter Milligan scripted the 2002 adaptation of the Melvin Burgess novel An Angel for May.

X-Force was cancelled with issue No 129, and replaced by a new title, X-Statix, with Peter Milligan and Allred continuing as the creative force.

Peter Milligan proposed a character based on a resurrected Princess Diana.

Peter Milligan returned to The Human Target with the graphic novel Final Cut, followed by all 21 issues of the subsequent series for Vertigo.

Peter Milligan was involved in 2007's Batman crossover, "The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul", by writing the lead-in Batman Annual No 26, as well as the parts of the storyline in the Robin monthly title.

Peter Milligan scripted for the BBC interactive animated series Meta4orce and the Sub-Mariner: The Depths limited series for Marvel's Marvel Knights imprint.

In late 2008, Peter Milligan was named writer for the long-running Vertigo series Hellblazer, and wrote that imprint's Greek Street, Additionally, for Marvel, he wrote the 2008 one-shot Moon Knight: Silent Knight, with artist Laurence Campbell.

Peter Milligan wrote Justice League Dark, a spin-off of the Justice League franchise, starring John Constantine and Shade, the Changing Man.