Gordon Rennie


Gordon Rennie is a Scottish comics writer, responsible for White Trash: Moronic Inferno, as well as several comic strips for 2000 AD and novels for Warhammer Fantasy.
In May 2008, he announced he was leaving comics to concentrate full-time on video games which "are more fun, pay better and have a brighter future". However, he has since written several new series for 2000 AD, Titan and others.

Biography

His first work was published in Blast! magazine in 1991, a metafictional Sherlock Holmes story called "Sherlock Holmes in the Curious Case of the Vanishing Villain", painted by Woodrow Phoenix. It also had appearances by characters from other Victorian fiction including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and characters from stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
He included a completely different White Trash in the same issue - a satirical journey through the USA, drawn by the New Zealand artist Martin Emond. Both these stories were later collected into one-shot graphic novels and published by Tundra Publishing. Two further planned collaborations with Phoenix, a one-shot graphic novel called Orson Welles: Special Agent! and Necronauts, later completed with Frazer Irving, were halted when Tundra Press ceased publishing in 1993.
Rennie's first major series for the 2000 AD family was Missionary Man, which began in Judge Dredd Megazine vol.2 #29 and ran between the latter and 2000 AD for 74 episodes before finishing in 2002. Other original series include Witch World and Rain Dogs. He also took over the exploits of the Judge Dredd villain Mean Machine, as well as the return of the original Rogue Trooper.
His works for 2000 AD include the miniseries Necronauts, in which Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fort and H. P. Lovecraft team up to defeat an alien menace that seeks to destroy the human race. This was followed up by the series Caballistics, Inc., a story about a recently privatized team of occult researchers, which included a combination of pop-cultural references and labyrinthine conspiracies.
By 2004, Rennie had become a writer on the Judge Dredd strip, following up a number of subplots initiated by its principal author, John Wagner, as well as developing his own situations and guest characters, some of whom have spun off into stories of their own. While the lengthier Judge Dredd adventures are typically scripted by Wagner, Rennie was awarded one in 2005. This story, "Blood Trails", ran for ten episodes beginning in 2000 AD prog 1440.
His contribution to the series of novels expanding miniature wargaming platforms Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40,000 and Battlefleet Gothic include Zavant, Ulli and Marquand, the Kal Jerico stories, Bloodquest, Execution Hour and Shadow Point.
Rennie has worked on computer games. In 2006, his script for the game Rogue Trooper was nominated for the 2006 BAFTA, and in 2012 he, along with co-scriptwriters Alan Barnes and Emma Beeby, received a nomination for the 2012 Writers' Guild of Great Britain's Best Videogame Script award for Risen 2: Dark Waters.
In May 2008, he was quoted as saying, "I got fed up with comics and quit last month to concentrate on games." Although he later said he was misquoted, and that he has not completely given up comics, as he would still be writing an ongoing series for 2000 AD. At that time, Rennie was also planning a novel on the Romans in Scotland. He has since returned to 2000 AD to write the serials Aquila, Jaegir and Survival Geeks.
He also co-wrote The Doomsday Quatrain and sections of 1001 Nights with Emma Beeby for Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who main range of audio plays.
He is known for maintaining close links with the fan community, for example by contributing to small press comics such as Solar Wind, despite a public persona he describes as "a grumpy Scottish git".

Works

Comics

Comics work includes:
  • "Sewer Patrol"
  • "Sherlock Holmes in the Curious Case of the Vanishing Villain"
  • White Trash
  • Missionary Man:
  • * "Salvation at the Last Chance Saloon"
  • * "A Town Called Intolerance"
  • * "Legend of the Unholy Drinker"
  • * "Bad Moon Rising"
  • * "Season of the Witch"
  • * "Sanctuary"
  • * "The Undertaker Cometh"
  • * "Treasure of the Sierra Murder"
  • * "Medicine Show"
  • * "Nightriders"
  • * "Mississippi Burning"
  • * "Crusader"
  • * "The Big Sleazy"
  • * "The Shootist"
  • * "Juggernaut"
  • * "Storm Warnings"
  • * "The Promised Land"
  • * "Missionary Man: Prologue"
  • * "Mardi Gras"
  • * "Goin' South"
  • * "Apocrypha"
  • * "The Promised Land", Trevor Hairsine, Colin MacNeil, Simon Davis, and Dean Ormston
  • * "Mark of the Beast"
  • * "Silence"
  • * "Place of the Dead"
  • Judge Dredd:
  • * "Do the Wrong Thing"
  • * "Lethal Response"
  • * "Get Me to the Church on Time"
  • * "Zero Tolerance"
  • * "Rest Stop"
  • * "The Big Lie"
  • * "Sino-Town"
  • * "Asylum"
  • * "Married with Juves"
  • * "Safe Hands"
  • * "A Right Royal Occasion"
  • * "Waiting"
  • * "One of our simps is missing"
  • * "War Crimes"
  • * "Sturm und Dang"
  • * "Holding On"
  • * "Club Sov"
  • * "Bato Loco"
  • * "Meet the Flooks"
  • * "See Zammy Run"
  • * "Gulag"
  • * "Last Respects"
  • * "Lazarus"
  • * "Master Moves"
  • * " Mega-City Love Story #1: Callista"
  • * "The Magnificent Umbersons"
  • * "Visiting Hour"
  • * "The Searchers"
  • * "Missing in action"
  • * "Descent"
  • * "Radstock"
  • * "Blood Trails"
  • * "Matters Of Life And Death"
  • * "Burned Out"
  • * "Change of Loyalties"
  • * "Global Psycho"
  • * "Direct Action"
  • * "Return to Planet Gary"
  • * "Culling Time"
  • * "Regime Change"
  • * "Fitness Test"
  • * "House of Pain"
  • * "Sanctuary"
  • * "Judgement"
  • * "Tartan Terrors"
  • * "Cit-Emp"
  • * "Trial by Dury"
  • * "Test Flight"
  • * "The Listener"
  • * "The Menagerie"
  • * "Mind Games"
  • * "Born to Zoosh"
  • * "Road Stop"
  • * "It came from Bea Arthur Block"
  • * "Tour of Duty: Dragon's Den" and PJ Holden
  • * "The Connoisseur"
  • * "The Natural"
  • * "Persistent Vegetative State"
  • * "Scream"
  • * "Suicide Watch"
  • Mean Machine:
  • * "Psycho Analysis"
  • * "Mean Streets"
  • * "Close Encounters of the Mean Kind"
  • * "Born Mean"
  • * "The Geek"
  • * "Support Yore Local Bastich"
  • * "The Last Vidshow"
  • * "Butt Me Deadly"
  • Harke & Burr: "Satanic Farces"
  • Vector 13:
  • * "Case Zero: Oath of Office"
  • * "Case Five: Patent Pending"
  • * "Case Six: Bodysnatchers"
  • * "Case Eight: Unhallowed Ground"
  • * "Case Zero: Shadows and Light"
  • * "Case Six: MK-Ultra"
  • * "Case Eight: Midnight Rambler"
  • * "Case Eleven: Search & Rescue"
  • * "Case Fifteen: Time's Arrow"
  • * "Case Four: Einstein's Monsters"
  • * "Case Five: Seal of Solomon"
  • Species: Human Race #1
  • Witch World:
  • * "The Dark Man"
  • * "Wolfshead"
  • * "The Anatomist"
  • * "Closing Shadows"
  • Inferno!:
  • * "Bloodquest"
  • * "Rites of Passage"
  • * "Trespass"
  • * "Unearthed Remains"
  • Starship Troopers: "Insect Touch" #2-3
  • Bloodquest: Eye of Terror Trilogy collects:
  • * Bloodquest
  • * Bloodquest: Into the Eye of Terror
  • * Bloodquest: The Daemon's Mark
  • Tharg's Terror Tales :
  • * "Reefer Madness"
  • * "Mars Needs Mates!"
  • * "Monsters of Rock"
  • Pulp Sci-Fi:
  • * "Night Shift"
  • * "Buzz Tycho's Last Stand"
  • * "Surgical Strike"
  • * "Reapermen"
  • * "Chronvicts"
  • Glimmer Rats
  • Rain Dogs
  • Kal Jerico: Underhive Bounty Hunter collects:
  • * Kal Jerico
  • * Kal Jerico II: Contracts and Agendas
  • Necronauts
  • Satanus Unchained!
  • ZombieWorld: "Home for the Holidays"
  • Predator Omnibus: Volume 4 collects:
  • * "Nemesis"
  • * "Captive"
  • Storming Heaven
  • The Life and Time of Ulli & Marquand and Their Misadventures in Mordheim, City of the Damned
  • Rogue Trooper :
  • * "What lies beneath"
  • * "Weapons of War"
  • * "Overkill"
  • * "Lions" and Mike Collins
  • * "A Visit to the Boneyard"
  • * "Requiem"
  • * "Angels"
  • * "Ghouls" and Mike Collins
  • * "Realpolitik"
  • * "Condor Six Down"
  • Past Imperfect:
  • * "Infamy"
  • * "The Red Menace"
  • Caballistics, Inc. :
  • * "Going Underground"
  • * "Moving In"
  • * "Breaking Out"
  • * "Downtime 1 - Chapter"
  • * "Downtime 2 - Verse"
  • * "Downtime 3 - Ness"
  • * "Downtime 4 - Jonathan & Jennifer"
  • * "Downtime 5 - Ravne"
  • * "Downtime 6 - Kostabi"
  • * "Krystalnacht"
  • * "Picking Up The Pieces"
  • * "Creepshow"
  • * "Weird War Tales"
  • * "Northern Dark"
  • * "Strange Bedfellows"
  • * "Changelings"
  • * "Ashes"
  • * "The Nativity"
  • Bato Loco:
  • * "True Romance"
  • * "Head Job"
  • * "Kiss Me Deadly"
  • Daemonifuge: Judgement of Tears
  • Whatever Happened To?:
  • * "Maria"
  • * "John 'Giant' Clay"
  • * "Conrad Conn"
  • * "The Gribligs"
  • Deff Skwadron
  • Cursed Earth Koburn :
  • * "Kuss Hard"
  • * "Burial Party"
  • * "The Assizes"
  • * "Malachi"
  • Johnny Woo:
  • * "A Bullet In The Head"
  • * "A Hong Tong Ghost Story"
  • The 86ers:
  • * "Touchdown", drawing by PJ Holden and colours by Chris Blythe
  • * "Interference"
  • * "Walking to Eternity"
  • Absalom :
  • * "Noblesse Obligie"
  • * "Sick leave"
  • * "Ghosts of London"

    Novels

Novels include:
2000 AD
Warhammer
  • Execution Hour
  • Zavant
  • Shadowpoint
  • ''Blood Royal''