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Peter Milligan
About The Author
One-time
Entertainment Weekly Man of the Year Peter Milligan was at the forefront of the
revolution in comics for a more sophisticated, adult audience. Shade, the
Changing Man for Vertigo offered a skewed look at American culture, while
Enigma, Face and Rogan Gosh pushed the boundaries of what comic books could do.
The hugely-popular X-Statix was a radical reworking of the X-Men paradigm that
led to controversy when Milligan tried to recruit the late Diana Prince of
Wales into his celebrity-obsessed bunch of heroes; described by Kevin Smith
(Clerks, etc.) as “the most well-observed scholarly analysis of media-manipulation
filtered through a pop-culture lens ever committed to the page." While the
Princess Diana controversy raged, Milligan was perhaps the most hated man in
Britain--at least among Daily Mail readers.
Milligan was the
longest-running writer of the cult horror comic Hellblazer, and his take on
Human Target inspired the TV series. His latest works include the critical hit
Britannia, about an Ancient Roman detective, a retelling of The Mummy for
Hammer/Titan, and the surreal Kid Lobotomy for IDW. Currently he is writing a new take on the
cult TV series The Prisoner for Titan. Milligan has written several
screenplays.
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