Gordon Rennie

Gordon Rennie started his career as a music journalist . He later wrote the storylines for numerous well-known comic series. In recent years he has retired as a comic book author and works primarily for the computer game industry . Several printed background stories for well-known tabletop series come from his hand .

life and work

His first work was in British Blast! -Magazine, a short-lived bi-weekly comic book series drawn by Woodrow Phoenix . Here his plot processed the well-known Sherlock Holmes motif. With the illustrator Martin Emond he published the series White Trash , which traced a satirical journey through the United States .

He got his first major commission in 1993 for the British Judge Dredd Megazine , a sister publication from 2000 AD . He wrote the plot for Missionary Man , which was published henceforth in 74 stories, first in the Judge Dredd Megazine and from 2000 in 2000 AD through 2002. He wrote all of the storylines and worked with comic artists Frank Quitely , Garry Marshall , Simon Davis , Jamie Grant , Charles Gillespie , Henry Flint , Trevor Hairsine , Alex Ronald , Colin MacNeil , Dean Ormston , Jesus Redondo , Wayne Reynolds, and John Ridgway .

The best-known works for 2000 AD include the award-winning miniseries Necronauts, with Frazer Irving as the draftsman, and the 42-episode series Caballistics, Inc. , designed by Dom Reardon, which will appear until 2005 .

As a book author, he wrote novels on the comics Jugde Dredd , such as the 2003 Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death or the novel Crucible published in 2004 for the comic book series Rogue Trooper . For the tabletops Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy he wrote the books: Execution Hour (2001), Zavant (2002), Shadowpoint (2003) and Blood Royal (2005).

In the last few years, Rennie has started to focus his work primarily on assignments from the computer game industry. In 2006 he was nominated for a British Academy Video Games Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) for his work on the Rogue Trooper computer game . In 2004 he wrote the script for the game Killzone . He is currently involved in game projects for: Splatterhouse , Aliens vs Predator and Highlander .

Web links

• Interview with Gordon Rennie for the Blackstone