Rob Williams (comics)

Rob Williams is a Welsh comics writer, working mainly for 2000 AD. He is currently writing books for DC Comics and its Vertigo imprint.

Williams started out as a freelance journalist and creator of corporate videos.^[1] He decided to try comics writing resulting in Cla$$war, published by Com.x and illustrated by several artists, including Trevor Hairsine and Travel Foreman. Publishing began in 2002 and, after a three-year hiatus from the publisher a complete collection was released in 2009.^[2]

The comic series was read by Andy Diggle, who was the editor of 2000 AD at the time and contacted Williams,^[1] resulting in a number of comics: the two-part Asylum, with Boo Cook, the ongoing Low Life,^[3] initially with Henry Flint^[4] and one-offs like Breathing Space with Laurence Campbell.^[5]

He would again team up with Campbell for the 2006 Wolverine Christmas Special^[6] and later a PunisherMAX one-shot.^[7] Williams would then go on to get other work for Marvel Comics, including a story in the Dark X-Men: The Beginning anthology, a Captain Britain story in Deadpool Team Up and a Ghost Rider one-shot that ties into the Daredevil storyline Shadowland.^[8][9] He returned to Ghost Rider with a new eponymous ongoing series, launched as part of the "Fear Itself" storyline,^[10] for which he also wrote the Uncanny X-Force mini-series.^[11][12] Other Marvel comics announced around the same time include The Iron Age metaseries,^[13][14][15] Skaar: King of the Savage Land limited series,^[16] and takes over the writing of the Daken: Dark Wolverine ongoing series.^[17][18] Following that slew of announcements, on 22 April 2011 he announced that he had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel.^[15]

Williams has also written comics based on a number of intellectual properties, including stories for Star Wars Tales and Star Wars: Rebellion^[19] comics from Dark Horse, and, with the same publisher, writing Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods.^[20][21] For Dynamite Entertainment he is writing RoboCop,^[22][23] with artist Fabiano Neves.^[24]

• Cla$$war (with artist by Trevor Hairsine (#1–3) and Travel Foreman (#4–6), 6-issue limited series, Com.x, January 2002 – 2004, tpb, 2003, collects Cla$$war #1–3, hardcover, 210 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-60743-816-X)
• Asylum (with Boo Cook, tpb, April 2007, ISBN 1-904265-67-7):
  • "Asylum" (in 2000 AD #1313–1321, October 2002)
  • "Asylum 2" (in 2000 AD #1406–1414, 2004)
• Family (with Simon Fraser, in Judge Dredd Megazine #201–207, January–July 2003)
• "Ghosts of Hoth" (with Cary Nord, in Star Wars Tales 17, October 2003)
• Nomad (with Brandon Badeaux):
  • "Nomad, Chapter one" (in Star Wars Tales 21, 2004)
  • "Nomad, Chapter two" (in Star Wars Tales 22, 2005)
  • "Nomad, Chapter three" (in Star Wars Tales 23, 2005)
  • "Nomad, Chapter four" (in Star Wars Tales 24, 2005)
• Low Life:
  • Mega-City Undercover (160 pages, Rebellion Developments, January 2008, ISBN 1-905437-52-8) collects:
    • "Paranoia" (with Henry Flint, in 2000 AD #1387–1396, 2004)
    • "Heavy Duty" (with Henry Flint, in 2000 AD #1397–1399, 2004)
    • "Rock and a Hard Place" (with Simon Coleby, in 2000 AD #1425–1428, 2005)
    • "He's making a list..." (with Simon Coleby, in 2000 AD prog 2006, 2005)
    • "Con Artist" (with Simon Coleby, in 2000 AD #1484–1490, 2006)
    • "Baby Talk" (with Simon Coleby, in 2000 AD #1521–1524, 2007)
  • "War without Bloodshed" (with Rufus Dayglo, in Judge Dredd Megazine, #271–274, 2008)
  • "Creation" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1624–1631, 2009)
  • "Hostile Takeover" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1700–1709, 2010)
  • "The Deal" (with D'Israeli, in 2000 AD #1750-1761, 2011)
• "Lucky" (with Michel Lacombe, in Star Wars Tales 23, 2005)
• "Marked" (with Cully Hamner, in Star Wars Tales 24, 2005)
• Breathing Space (with Peter Doherty (#1451–1452), Laurence Campbell (pencils #1453–1459) and Lee Townsend (inks #1453–1459), in 2000 AD #1451–59, 2005)
• Star Wars: Rebellion: My Brother, My Enemy (with Michel Lacombe, 5-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 2006)
• Meet Darren Dead (with John Higgins):
  • "Meet Darren Dead" (in Judge Dredd Megazine No. 240, January 2006)
  • "Eats, Shoots & Kills" (in Judge Dredd Megazine #287–289, August–October 2009)
• The Ten-Seconders:
  • "The American Dream" (with Mark Harrison, in 2000 AD #1469–1479, January–March 2006)
  • "Make. Believe" (with Dom Reardon (1–3) and Shaun Thomas (4–6) and Ben Oliver (7–13), in 2000 AD #1578–1588, March–May 2008)
• Wolverine No. 49 (with Laurence Campbell, Special Double-Sized X-Mas Special, 2006, Marvel Comics, collected in Wolverine: Blood and Sorrow, June 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2607-4) ^[25][26]
• Judge Dredd:
  • "The Biographer" (with Boo Cook, in 2000 AD #1537, 2007)
  • "Ownership" (with Richard Elson, in 2000 AD #1587–1588, 2008)
  • "Out Law" (with Guy Davis, in Judge Dredd Megazine No. 296, March 2010)^[27][28]
  • "The Slow Walk" (with Boo Cook, in 2000 AD #1698, August 2010)
  • "The Walking Dredd" (with Brendan McCarthy, in Judge Dredd Megazine No. 311, June 2011)
• Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods (with Steve Scott, 5-issue limited series, Dark Horse, 2008)
• "Dark Daken" (with Paco Diaz, in Dark X-Men: The Beginning No. 2, Marvel Comics, September 2009)
• Ghostbusters: Past, Present And Future (with Diego Jourdan Pereira, IDW Publishing, December 2009)
• RoboCop (with artist Nick Barrucci, 6-issue limited series, Dynamite Entertainment, January–August 2010)
• PunisherMAX: Get Castle (with Laurence Campbell, one-shot, MAX, March 2010)
• The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (with Dom Reardon, in 2000 AD #1677–1688, March–June 2010)
• Deadpool Team Up No. 893, 897 (with Matteo Scalera, Marvel Comics, May 2010, January 2011)
• "Survivors" (with Doug Braithwaite, in X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – X-Men vs. Vampires No. 1, 2-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, September 2010)
• "Canada, Man!" (with Philip Bond, in Deadpool #1000, Marvel Comics, October 2010)
• Shadowland: Ghost Rider (with Clayton Crain, one-shot, Marvel Comics, November 2010)
• Heroic Age: One Month To Live No. 2 (with pencils by Shawn Moll/Koi Turnbull, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, November 2010, collected in hardcover, 128 pages, January 2011, ISBN 978-0-7851-4903-3)
• "Silence" (with Pablo Peppino, in Tomb of Terror, one-shot, Marvel Comics, December 2010)
• What If?: Wolverine: Father (with Greg Tocchini, one-shot, Marvel Comics, February 2011)
• "Spikes" (with Rebekah Isaacs, in Captain America and Falcon, one-shot, Marvel Comics, May 2011)^[29]
• "Can't Get the Service" (with pencils by Lee Garbett, in The Amazing Spider-Man #658–660, Marvel Comics, June–July 2011)
• Skaar: King of the Savage Land (with pencils by Brian Ching, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, June–September 2011)
• Daken: Dark Wolverine #9.1- (with Matteo Buffagni, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, July 2011 – present)
• Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human (with PJ Holden, 5-issue limited series, Dynamite Entertainment, July–November 2011, tpb, 104 pages, March 2012, ISBN 1-60690-260-1)
• The Iron Age No. 1, 3 (with Ben Oliver and Roberto De La Torre, 3-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, August–October 2011)
• Ghost Rider #0.1-9 (with Matthew Clark, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, August 2011 – May 2012)
• Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force (with Simone Bianchi, 3-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, September 2011 – November 2011)^[11]
• Think of a City page 20 (with Simon Gane, Internet art project, 2014)
• Avenging Spider-Man Annual No. 1

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rob Williams.

• Official website
• Rob Williams at the Grand Comics Database
• Rob Williams at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Rob Williams at 2000AD online
• Q&A thread on 2000 AD forum

• 2005 Interview by 2000ADReview
• Podcast Interview by The Legion of Dudes on RoboCop, Star Wars and more.
• 2014 Interview by Pop Culture Bandit on Doctor Who: The 11th Doctor series.