Several years after leaving, Ennis briefly returned for the five-part Son of Man story with artist John Higgins. Towards the end of the initial Hellblazer run, Ennis and Dillon collaborated on a one-shot called Heartland, exploring one of the secondary characters of their run. From 1993 to 1995 Ennis and John McCrea worked on another DC title, The Demon, during which they introduced super-powered contract killer Tommy Monaghan, also known as Hitman, whose own series would allow their creative partnership to continue when The Demon ended. The creative partnership established went on to create Preacher. Steve Dillon became the regular artist during the second half of Ennis's run. Ennis also contributed the surreal Time Flies (with artist Philip Bond), dealing with time travel paradoxes and Nazis.Įnnis' first work on an American comic came in 1991 when he took over DC Comics' horror title Hellblazer, which he wrote until 1994. Ennis's most notable Dredd stories include Muzak Killer (a pastiche of mainstream pop music), Emerald Isle (a tongue-in-cheek story set in Ennis's native Ireland), and the twenty-part epic Judgment Day.

He quickly graduated on to the title's flagship character, Judge Dredd, taking over from original creator John Wagner for a period of several years. It was later republished in 1997 by Vertigo.Įnnis shortly after began to write for Crisis' parent publication, 2000 AD. Like the two Troubles stories it was collected as a graphic novel in 1990, but religious protests led to it being quickly withdrawn from sale, apparently on the orders of publisher Robert Maxwell. And that was the road that seemed most likely to lead me to success'.Īnother series for Crisis was True Faith, a religious satire inspired by his schooldays, this time drawn by Warren Pleece. It was a direct attempt to get published. (.) With hindsight, what Troubled Souls really represented was naked ambition. Ennis was later critical of his writing debut, which he describes as 'the kind of thing that was doing well at the time. It spawned a sequel, For a Few Troubles More, a broad Belfast-based comedy featuring two supporting characters from Troubled Souls, Dougie and Ivor, who would later get their own American comics series, Dicks, from Caliber in 1997, and several follow-ups from Avatar. Appearing in the short-lived but critically acclaimed British anthology Crisis and illustrated by John McCrea, it told the story of a young, apolitical Protestant man caught up by fate in the violence of the Irish 'Troubles'.

Ennis began his comic-writing career in 1989 with the series Troubled Souls.

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