1. Simon Christopher Francis Furman was born on 22 March 1961 and is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro's Transformers franchise, starting with writing Marvel Comics's initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Dreamwave Production's and IDW Publishing's takes on the Generation 1 minifranchise.
Simon Furman is best known for his work on the Transformers comic by Marvel Comics.
Simon Furman took over as the writer of the Marvel US Transformers comic after its earlier writer Bob Budiansky decided he had had enough of the comic.
Simon Furman started his run in the US comic cautiously at first, but later invented an origin story for the Transformers that involved an ancient struggle between the colossal godlike creator, Primus, and his counterpart, the colossal godlike destroyer, Unicron.
Over ten years later, Simon Furman was brought in by the now-defunct independent comics publisher Dreamwave to write some of its Transformers comics, including "The War Within", a six issue prequel set on Cybertron before the Autobots and Decepticons took their battle to Earth.
Simon Furman was to have continued on with Dreamwave, but its contentious closure resulted in the premature end of the Energon and The War Within titles.
Away from Transformers, Simon Furman wrote a Doctor Who audio adventure for Big Finish.
Simon Furman contributed a number of stories starring Judge Dredd to the DC title Judge Dredd: Lawman of the Future, as well as one-off stories to Dredd's home title 2000 AD.
Simon Furman wrote a new continuity of "Generation 1" Transformers comic books for IDW Publishing.
Simon Furman is widely known as the co-creator and chief writer of Death's Head.
Simon Furman wrote Dragon's Claws for Marvel UK, and this title crossed over with Death's Head.
Simon Furman himself is briefly interviewed by Scheer to explain his reason for working on the comic in the first place.