English comic book writer
Dan Watters Born Dan Watters London, England Area(s) Writer Notable works
Coffin Bound , Home Sick Pilots , Lucifer , Arkham City: The Order of the World , Destro , Batman : Dark Patterns , Nightwing
Dan Watters is an English comics writer who has written for Marvel Comics , DC Comics , and independent comics . He is best known for his creator-owned comics Coffin Bound and Home Sick Pilots and his work on Lucifer and Batman .
Career
Watters's first creator-owned comic was the six-issue comic Limbo , which he made with artist Caspar Wijngaard and was published in 2015-2016 through Image Comics . ComicsAlliance described the book as "Lovecraft meets Cronenberg as Innsmouth and Videodrome collide in an explosion of magic, myth, jazz and Kafka ."[ 1] Watters and Wijngaard continued working together, doing stories for Dark Souls and Assassin's Creed for Titan Comics .[ 2] Watters then worked with Alex Paknadel to do a comic adaptation of Little Nightmares [ 3] before working on The Shadow with Si Spurrier and Wolfenstein .[ 4] [ 5]
In 2018, he released Deep Roots through Vault Comics , which was one of the first comics he created as part of White Noise, the British comic collective made up of Watters, Ryan O’Sullivan, Alex Paknadel, and Ram V .[ 6] He was then announced as the writer for Lucifer for DC's Sandman Universe imprint[ 7] and co-wrote House of Whispers with Nalo Hopkinson .[ 8] In 2019, he and artist Dani put out the creator-owed Coffin Bound though Image, a surreal post-apocalyptic western.[ 9] [ 10] [ 11]
In 2020, he re-teamed with Wijngaard to publish Home Sick Pilots , a "punk rock horror" comic, through Image.[ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] He also published The Picture of Everything Else , a take of The Picture of Dorian Gray , through Vault.[ 16] [ 17] In 2021, he teamed up with artist Dani again to work on Arkham City: The Order of the World , a six-issue mini-series for DC Comics about a psychiatrist from Arkham Asylum attempting to find a number of patients who have escaped into the city.[ 18] As part of the book, they reinvented the villain the Ten-Eyed Man .[ 19]
In 2021, he and artist Lamar Mathurin worked on Titan's four issue Cowboy Bebop comic, adapting from the 2021 Netflix show,[ 20] [ 21] and in 2022, he wrote a six-issue Sword of Azrael mini-series for DC with artist Nikola Čižmešija.[ 22] [ 23] In 2022, it was announced by Humanoids that Watters would write one of the prequel graphic novels for The Incal called Dying Star , with artist Jon Davis-Hunt.[ 24] In 2023, he worked with artist Sebastián Cabrol on The Seasons Have Teeth , a four-issue series from Boom! Studios ,[ 25] and with artist Germán Peralta on Loki for Marvel.[ 26] [ 27] [ 28]
In September of 2023, he worked with Ram V on Detective Comics and then, in 2024, they wrote Universal Monsters : Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! together for Skybound /Image.[ 29] [ 30] [ 31] He and Ram V also worked together on two Image mini-series that would tell one story about a serial killer in a neo-noir cyberpunk setting: Ram V writing The One Hand and Watters writing The Six Fingers .[ 32] [ 33] He was also announced to be the writer for the Destro mini-series at Skybound.[ 34]
In March of 2024, he was announced as the writer for Titan's Doctor Who : The Fifteenth Doctor series.[ 35] [ 36] In July of 2014, he was announced along with artist Dexter Soy as the new creative team for Nightwing .[ 37] In September on 2024, it was announced that he and artist Hayden Sherman would work on the twelve-issue mini-series Batman: Dark Patterns , which will take a look at four of Batman's early cases in Gotham, dscribed as "lo-fi, mystery focused."[ 38] [ 39] [ 40]
Personal life
He was born and currently lives in London.[ 41]
Bibliography
DC Comics
Absolute Power Task Force VII #7 (2024)
Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #1 (2023)
Aquaman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1, short story "What Remains of a Storm" (2021)
Arkham City: The Order of the World #1-6 (2021-2022)
Batman :
Batman Secret Files #3, short story "Afraid of America" (2020)
Batman: Dark Patterns #1-12 (2024-2025)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold vol. 2 #10, short story "The Cheeseburger" (2024)
Batman: Urban Legends #8-10, three-part story "Dark Knight of the Soul" and short story "On His Worst Nights" (2021-2022)
Detective Comics #1040, backup story "The Quiet and Unsung Death of Kirk Langstrom" (2021), #1072-1089, backup stories (2023-2024)
Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant #1, short story "The Perfect Fit" (2021)
Knight Terrors : Detective Comics #1-2 (2023)
Dark Crisis :
Dark Crisis: The Deadly Green #1 (2022)
Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Wonder Woman #1, short story "The Martian Squidhunter" (2022)
DC's Saved by the Belle Reve #1, short story "How Angels Are Made" (2022)
Future State : Superman/Wonder Woman #1-2 (2021)
Infinite Frontier Secret Files #1, short story "My Brother is a Kind of Shadow" and "The Third Question" (2021)
Justice League Dark 2021 Annual vol. 2 #1 (2021)
The Last God: Songs of Lost Children #1 (2020)
Lazarus Planet : We Once Were Gods #1, short story "Songs of Pain" (2023)
New Year's Evil vol. 2 #1, short story "Winter's Root" (2019)
Nightwing #119-present (2024-present)
Ocean Master : Year of the Villain #1 (2019)
Poison Ivy #25, short story "The Pyrophyte" (2024)
The Sandman Universe :
The Sandman Universe #1 (2018)
House of Whispers #5-22, co-written with Nalo Hopkinson (2018-2020)
Lucifer vol. 3 #1-18, issues #19-24 released in trade paperback (2018-2020)
Secrets of Sinister House vol. 2 #1, short story "Footsteps of Old Worm" (2019)
Super-Pets Special: Bitedentity Crisis #1, short story "The Little Cat" (2024)
Superman Red and Blue #1, short story "Human Colors" (2021)
Sword of Azrael #1-6 (2022-2023)
Sword of Azrael: Dark Knight of the Soul #1 (2022)
Marvel Comics
Other Companies
Boom! Studios
The Seasons Have Teeth #1-4 (2023)
Dynamite Entertainment
Humanoids
The Incal Universe: Free Comic Book Day 2022 , short story "Dying Star" (2022)
The Incal: Dying Star (2023)
Image Comics
TinyOnion
Razorblades: The Horror Magazine #3 (2022)
Titan Comics
Vault Comics
Deep Roots #1-5 (2018)
The Picture of Everything Else #1-3 (2020-2021)
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Preceded by
Nightwing writer 2024–present
Succeeded byN/A