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John Smith (born 1967) is a British comics writer best known for his work on ''2000 AD'' and ''Crisis''. Smith's work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult, told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs. Other notable influences include Michael Moorcock, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alan Moore and Noël Coward. His best-known character is ''Devlin Waugh'', a flamboyantly gay exorcist, assassin and vampire working for the Vatican of the future, co-created with artist Sean Phillips for the ''Judge Dredd Megazine''. ==Biography== His earliest work was for D. C. Thomson's science fiction comic ''Starblazer'' in the mid-1980s. He wrote his first script for ''2000 AD'' in 1986 and wrote the political superhero series ''New Statesmen'' for ''Crisis'' in 1988. Many of his series for ''2000 AD'' were tied into the same continuity, under the umbrella of ''Indigo Prime''. Indigo Prime was a multi-dimensional organisation that policed reality, recruiting recently dead people as its agents. The climax of the series was ''Killing Time'', in which agents Winwood and Cord pursued a demon that had hitched a ride on a Victorian time machine, one of the legitimate passengers of which turned out to be Jack the Ripper. Other series for ''2000 AD'' include ''Revere'', a post-apocalyptic occult story with artist Simon Harrison, which was reprinted in its entirety in the ''2000 AD Extreme Edition'' title in February 2007, and ''Firekind'' (1993), an anthropological science fiction story involving alien cultures and dragons, illustrated by Paul Marshall. He has also written ''Rogue Trooper'' and ''Judge Dredd''. For DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, he has written a fill-in on ''Hellblazer'',〔 and an eight-part series called ''Scarab'', which started out as a revamp of ''Doctor Fate''. John has also written a run of ''Vampirella'' for Harris Comics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Smith (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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