Gordon Rennie

Gordon Rennie began his career as a music journalist. He later wrote the acts for numerous well-known comic series. In recent years he has retired as a comic book writer, working primarily for the computer game industry. From his hand printed some background stories come to known tabletop series.

Life and work

His first work was drawn in British Blast Magazine!, A short-lived bi-weekly comic series, Woodrow Phoenix, published. This processed his action the Sherlock Holmes motif known. The artist Martin Emond he published the series White Trash, which retraced a satirical journey through the United States.

For the British Judge Dredd Megazine, a sister publication of 2000 AD, in 1993 he got his first big order. He wrote the story for Missionary Man, which was henceforth published in 74 stories, first in Judge Dredd Megazine and from 2000 in 2000 AD by the year 2002. He wrote all the actions and worked with the 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.

Among the best known works for 2000 AD include the award -winning miniseries Necronauts with Frazer Irving as a draftsman and published until 2005, 42 episodes comprehensive set Caballistics, Inc., designed by Dom Reardon.

As an author, he wrote novels to the comics Jugde Dredd, so the 2003's Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death or the novel published in 2004 Crucible for comic series Rogue Trooper. For the tabletop Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy he wrote the books: Execution Hour ( 2001), Zavant (2002 ) Shadow Point ( 2003) and Blood Royal ( 2005).

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