It was announced at Wizard World Chicago in June 2008, that Abnett and Lanning had signed an exclusive deal with Marvel, which they hope will give them time to work on the 'cosmic' characters they have been dealing with, as well as more earth-based ones. The characters then became the core of a new Guardians of the Galaxy. They said 'we were approached by Andy Schmidt, who edited the first 'Annihilation' event, and asked to pilot the next event, which Bill Rosemann is editing.' They ended up writing the Prologue, the Nova series crossover and the main Annihilation: Conquest limited series.

They expanded on their work in Annihilation: Nova and Nova, and piloted the next big event Annihilation: Conquest.

In addition DnA have done a lot of work on Marvel's 'cosmic' characters. Most recently it has been announced that he will be writing The Authority with co-author Andy Lanning, as part of the World's End relaunch of the core Wildstorm titles. More recently he has finished the final book of The V.C.s and started Black Atlantic in the Judge Dredd Megazine, which was be drawn by Steve Roberts (seen working on Bec and Kawl) in black and white. In 1994, he wrote a promotional comic to promote the opening of the Nemesis roller coaster at Alton Towers. He also wrote a novel for the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood called Border Princes in 2007.

He has also written three Warhammer Fantasy novels. They include the Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn trilogy and Ravenor spin-off and more recently, the first book of the Horus Heresy series, the SF bestseller Horus Rising. He has written novels set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. For Dark Horse Comics he co-wrote Planet of the Apes: Blood Lines with Ian Edginton, as well as penning Lords of Misrule and HyperSonic. His work for DC is usually co-written with Andy Lanning and they are often referred to as DnA. At DC he is probably best-known for his 2000 relaunch of Legion of Super-Heroes. His work for Marvel includes runs on Death's Head 2, Battletide, Knights of Pendragon (all of which he co-created), The Punisher, War Machine, Annihilation: Nova and various X-Men titles. Abnett has also contributed to some of the comic's major ongoing series, including Judge Dredd, Durham Red and Rogue Trooper. Other original stories include Black Light, Badlands, Avatar, Downlode Tales, Sancho Panzer, Roadkill and Wardog, based on the game of the same name.

2.3.1 Tales of Malus Darkblade (all with Mike Lee)Īs one of the more prolific 2000AD writers, Abnett was responsible for the creation of one of the comic's better known, and longest-running, strips, Sinister Dexter.

War of Kings by Dan Abnett