Pat Mills
@patmillswriter.bsky.social
New Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/patmills/hellbreaker-fire-in-the-blood?ref=4b71jw
Godfather of British comics. Creator of 2000AD, Marshal Law, Requiem Vampire Knight, Charley's War.
Godfather of British comics. Creator of 2000AD, Marshal Law, Requiem Vampire Knight, Charley's War.
November 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Reposted by Pat Mills
Colouring art designed with heavy blacks for BW publication is always a tightrope walk. But these tests and covers for Defoe that I did proved I might be able to pull it off. Story by @patmillswriter.bsky.social for @2000ad.bsky.social #horror #steampunk #zombies
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Colouring art designed with heavy blacks for BW publication is always a tightrope walk. But these tests and covers for Defoe that I did proved I might be able to pull it off. Story by @patmillswriter.bsky.social for @2000ad.bsky.social #horror #steampunk #zombies
Rough diamond cops and agents are always popular. There was the Sweeney, Gene Hunt and now Jackson Lamb. So I got writer George McDonald - who has expert knowledge - to come up with a genuinely different cop for Hellbreaker: Asquith.
November 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Rough diamond cops and agents are always popular. There was the Sweeney, Gene Hunt and now Jackson Lamb. So I got writer George McDonald - who has expert knowledge - to come up with a genuinely different cop for Hellbreaker: Asquith.
I made the entrance to Hell the Orwell Bridge in Ipswich. Firstly, because I know it well, but also because George Orwell named after himself the river Orwell. The Hell world the protagonists enter is even more nightmarish than his 1984.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I made the entrance to Hell the Orwell Bridge in Ipswich. Firstly, because I know it well, but also because George Orwell named after himself the river Orwell. The Hell world the protagonists enter is even more nightmarish than his 1984.
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One reader asked me about Hellbreaker’s name: Anton De La Rue. It means ‘from the street’. E.g. A working class hero. I wanted a hero who had the style and costume of the Raffles archetype, but wasn’t a ‘gentleman’, most of whom I detest.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
One reader asked me about Hellbreaker’s name: Anton De La Rue. It means ‘from the street’. E.g. A working class hero. I wanted a hero who had the style and costume of the Raffles archetype, but wasn’t a ‘gentleman’, most of whom I detest.
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I *think* they are saying nice things about Requiem 😈
Réquiem part 0
Review geral da obra máxima de @patmillswriter.bsky.social e Oliver Ledroit
Essa história está nos volumes publicados pela editora Mythos
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Review geral da obra máxima de @patmillswriter.bsky.social e Oliver Ledroit
Essa história está nos volumes publicados pela editora Mythos
links pra o Spotify
open.spotify.com/episode/49Io...
GB 222 Réquiem O Cavaleiro Vampiro
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October 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I *think* they are saying nice things about Requiem 😈
think all we creators on 2000AD have been inspired by music to feature it in our stories. It’s why I had Comic Rock in Nemesis The Warlock, to focus on musical sources, without paying a fortune for them. Thus, in Third World War, I used the lyrics from the Dead Kennedy’s 1/3
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
think all we creators on 2000AD have been inspired by music to feature it in our stories. It’s why I had Comic Rock in Nemesis The Warlock, to focus on musical sources, without paying a fortune for them. Thus, in Third World War, I used the lyrics from the Dead Kennedy’s 1/3
There are the classic monsters: Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies. So I’m thrilled for a new breed of monster to join them: Infernals, injected with fire in their blood in Hellbreaker.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
There are the classic monsters: Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies. So I’m thrilled for a new breed of monster to join them: Infernals, injected with fire in their blood in Hellbreaker.
Check out our KS and follow us so you don't miss our launch:
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Check out our KS and follow us so you don't miss our launch:
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A big appeal to me of Ian art is his incredibly handsome hero which is essential to the story. Glenn Fabry is the only artist I can think of who could portray anyone so impossibly good looking. There’s a unique chemistry between Hellbreaker and his female cop pursuer that I find very compelling 1/2
October 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A big appeal to me of Ian art is his incredibly handsome hero which is essential to the story. Glenn Fabry is the only artist I can think of who could portray anyone so impossibly good looking. There’s a unique chemistry between Hellbreaker and his female cop pursuer that I find very compelling 1/2
Hellbreaker looks at different versions of Hell and why many people still believe in punishment in the afterlife. Christianity seems to have been responsible for the idea of Eternal Damnation, as a form of control. Great fun exploring it all!
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October 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Hellbreaker looks at different versions of Hell and why many people still believe in punishment in the afterlife. Christianity seems to have been responsible for the idea of Eternal Damnation, as a form of control. Great fun exploring it all!
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Hellbreaker is coming to Kickstarter in early Nov! Follow us now so you get notified when we launch - Ian Ashcroft has a limited number of original art sketches available!
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October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Hellbreaker is coming to Kickstarter in early Nov! Follow us now so you get notified when we launch - Ian Ashcroft has a limited number of original art sketches available!
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Ian Ashcroft and I just pre-launched our KS campaign! Hellbreaker: Fire in the Blood.
Hell is real – and it's a supermax prison. But the Infernals have escaped, and their leader is on a mission of vengeance on Earth.
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Hell is real – and it's a supermax prison. But the Infernals have escaped, and their leader is on a mission of vengeance on Earth.
Follow us so you don't miss our launch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
October 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Ian Ashcroft and I just pre-launched our KS campaign! Hellbreaker: Fire in the Blood.
Hell is real – and it's a supermax prison. But the Infernals have escaped, and their leader is on a mission of vengeance on Earth.
Follow us so you don't miss our launch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
Hell is real – and it's a supermax prison. But the Infernals have escaped, and their leader is on a mission of vengeance on Earth.
Follow us so you don't miss our launch!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
Even this morning, as I struggled with a tricky problem of what the cover of a forthcoming book should look like, I found myself wondering ‘What would Doug do?’. He was a great character, and I based Smith 70 in Charley’s War on him.
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Inspirations 7: Doug Church
As I wrote the first episodes for 2000AD, I got him to design them. In effect he was dressing mutton up as lamb.
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October 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Even this morning, as I struggled with a tricky problem of what the cover of a forthcoming book should look like, I found myself wondering ‘What would Doug do?’. He was a great character, and I based Smith 70 in Charley’s War on him.
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Dredger as a working-class secret agent was ‘something to be’, to quote Lennon’s immortal lyrics. Such characters had never appeared in comics before and were a rarity in film and novels. And they still are today.
My latest Secret History of Comics:
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My latest Secret History of Comics:
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'Working-class Hero': Dredger
Gerry had a knack of turning so many stereotypes on their head, even though, politically, we were probably poles apart.
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October 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Dredger as a working-class secret agent was ‘something to be’, to quote Lennon’s immortal lyrics. Such characters had never appeared in comics before and were a rarity in film and novels. And they still are today.
My latest Secret History of Comics:
iconoblast.substack.com/p/working-cl...
My latest Secret History of Comics:
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CHANGE OF PLANS ON AMERICAN REAPER
We decided that, rather than go for a Kickstarter, we'd get Book One of Reaper out in time for Christmas. There's so much love for Reaper, but we weren't getting the followers that we needed.
We decided that, rather than go for a Kickstarter, we'd get Book One of Reaper out in time for Christmas. There's so much love for Reaper, but we weren't getting the followers that we needed.
September 19, 2025 at 3:26 PM
CHANGE OF PLANS ON AMERICAN REAPER
We decided that, rather than go for a Kickstarter, we'd get Book One of Reaper out in time for Christmas. There's so much love for Reaper, but we weren't getting the followers that we needed.
We decided that, rather than go for a Kickstarter, we'd get Book One of Reaper out in time for Christmas. There's so much love for Reaper, but we weren't getting the followers that we needed.
Read for free my introduction to the Aaaagh! The Secret History of Actio
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Aaaagh! The Secret History of Action: Introduction
I had six weeks to put together the stories for Action. Anti-establishment thinking is so hard-wired into my DNA, there was really no alternative theme.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Read for free my introduction to the Aaaagh! The Secret History of Actio
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Pencils from Gary Welsh 'Beating Churchill' in Ragtime Soldier.
Churchill was sick. True story:
MAN (to bearer): How much is he paying you to carry him?
BEARER: Ten bob.
MAN: I'll gie' you double to drop him. (love it!)
Churchill lost the Dundee election and blames Ragtime.
Churchill was sick. True story:
MAN (to bearer): How much is he paying you to carry him?
BEARER: Ten bob.
MAN: I'll gie' you double to drop him. (love it!)
Churchill lost the Dundee election and blames Ragtime.
September 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Pencils from Gary Welsh 'Beating Churchill' in Ragtime Soldier.
Churchill was sick. True story:
MAN (to bearer): How much is he paying you to carry him?
BEARER: Ten bob.
MAN: I'll gie' you double to drop him. (love it!)
Churchill lost the Dundee election and blames Ragtime.
Churchill was sick. True story:
MAN (to bearer): How much is he paying you to carry him?
BEARER: Ten bob.
MAN: I'll gie' you double to drop him. (love it!)
Churchill lost the Dundee election and blames Ragtime.
New York City, 2062.
Reapers hunt coffin cheaters: members of an ageing rich elite who become young again by inhabiting the bodies of innocent teenagers.
A story torn from tomorrow's headlines: a future that's perilously near!
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Reapers hunt coffin cheaters: members of an ageing rich elite who become young again by inhabiting the bodies of innocent teenagers.
A story torn from tomorrow's headlines: a future that's perilously near!
Follow our Kickstarter: tinyurl.com/4a9yb25v
August 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New York City, 2062.
Reapers hunt coffin cheaters: members of an ageing rich elite who become young again by inhabiting the bodies of innocent teenagers.
A story torn from tomorrow's headlines: a future that's perilously near!
Follow our Kickstarter: tinyurl.com/4a9yb25v
Reapers hunt coffin cheaters: members of an ageing rich elite who become young again by inhabiting the bodies of innocent teenagers.
A story torn from tomorrow's headlines: a future that's perilously near!
Follow our Kickstarter: tinyurl.com/4a9yb25v
I found my original storyline that got us the gig with Trudie Styler’s film company to develop the character into a film and a comic strip.
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American Reaper: an exciting discovery!
The original treatment that got us a film option
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August 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I found my original storyline that got us the gig with Trudie Styler’s film company to develop the character into a film and a comic strip.
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Matherson hunts body snatchers who perform illegal mind transplants. He's already lost his son. Now he must protect his daughter.
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Join our Kickstarter for American Reaper Book One, drawn by Clint Langley with Reaper Files from Fay Dalton
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Join our Kickstarter for American Reaper Book One, drawn by Clint Langley with Reaper Files from Fay Dalton
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AMERICAN REAPER ANIMATIC GRAPHIC NOVEL PROMO
YouTube video by Millsverse
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August 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Matherson hunts body snatchers who perform illegal mind transplants. He's already lost his son. Now he must protect his daughter.
youtu.be/xcdzmT_03Jg
Join our Kickstarter for American Reaper Book One, drawn by Clint Langley with Reaper Files from Fay Dalton
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youtu.be/xcdzmT_03Jg
Join our Kickstarter for American Reaper Book One, drawn by Clint Langley with Reaper Files from Fay Dalton
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We’re celebrating the launch of our online shop with 10% off ALL titles! So if you missed our Sha 1: The Shadow One Kickstarter, you can grab your softcover, hardcover or digital copy!
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Offer ends 22/08/2025
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Offer ends 22/08/2025
Sha Book 1: The Shadow One - MILLSVERSE
Lara, a sixteen-year-old girl accused of witchcraft, burns at the stake. As she dies, she summons the Earth Goddess and swears revenge on her murderers.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We’re celebrating the launch of our online shop with 10% off ALL titles! So if you missed our Sha 1: The Shadow One Kickstarter, you can grab your softcover, hardcover or digital copy!
www.millsverse.com/product/sha-...
Offer ends 22/08/2025
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Offer ends 22/08/2025
Reposted by Pat Mills
Earlier this afternoon I received my copy of the deluxe Kickstarter-exclusive edition of “Sha Book 1 - The Shadow One” by Pat Mills & Olivier Ledroit. Was a bit late to the party, but @patmillswriter.bsky.social was super-accommodating, so thanks very much, Pat. Looking forward to future volumes!
July 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Earlier this afternoon I received my copy of the deluxe Kickstarter-exclusive edition of “Sha Book 1 - The Shadow One” by Pat Mills & Olivier Ledroit. Was a bit late to the party, but @patmillswriter.bsky.social was super-accommodating, so thanks very much, Pat. Looking forward to future volumes!
Our 2nd Kickstarter American Reaper is in pre-launch!
It’s a dystopian near-future thriller, created with Clint Langley.
With bonus previously unseen War Dog art by Clint – the original inspiration for Sláine!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
It’s a dystopian near-future thriller, created with Clint Langley.
With bonus previously unseen War Dog art by Clint – the original inspiration for Sláine!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
Coming soon: American Reaper Book One
Matherson is a Reaper, hunting snatchers who carry out body transplants. He's already lost his son. Now he must protect his daughter.
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August 7, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Our 2nd Kickstarter American Reaper is in pre-launch!
It’s a dystopian near-future thriller, created with Clint Langley.
With bonus previously unseen War Dog art by Clint – the original inspiration for Sláine!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
It’s a dystopian near-future thriller, created with Clint Langley.
With bonus previously unseen War Dog art by Clint – the original inspiration for Sláine!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/pat...
Long before James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, I remember being enthralled as a boy to read Conan Doyle’s When the World Screamed.
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When the World Screamed
Matriarchy versus Patriarchy (25) Conclusion. "We have figurines that look alike from 17,000 BC and from 38,000 BC. How is it even possible to bridge these unbelievable amounts of time?"
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July 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Long before James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, I remember being enthralled as a boy to read Conan Doyle’s When the World Screamed.
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