David Hine

David Hine
Nationality	British
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Notable works	Silent War

David Hine is an English comic book writer and artist.

Biography

Hine has been working in comics since the early 1980s. For Crisis he drew the series Sticky Fingers (written by Myra Hancock) in 1989, and wrote and drew a number of short pieces in 1990 and 1991. For 2000 AD he drew Tao De Moto in 1991 (again written by Hancock) and wrote and drew the futuristic police series Mambo from 1994 to 1996.

He wrote and drew the black and white horror comic Strange Embrace, originally published as a mini-series by Atomeka Press in 1993, and later as a collected graphic novel by Active Images in the U.S., reprinted again as a color series by Image Comics.^[1][2]

Hine is currently best known as a writer on Marvel Comics titles, like X-Men: The 198 and Civil War: X-Men.^[3] One of his most recent projects there was Silent War a six-issue mini-series featuring the Inhumans with art by Frazer Irving.^[4][5] Hine has also written a number of What if? stories which look at alternate outcomes to stories like Annihilation^[6] and Deadly Genesis.

Comic book writer David Hine at SDCC 2009

He was also the writer of Spawn for Image comics from issues # 151 to # 184 .,^[7] as well as writing his own manga series Poison Candy for Tokyopop^[8] and the Two-Face issue of The Joker's Asylum for DC.^[9][10][11] He will also be writing four issues of The Brave and the Bold with artist Doug Braithwaite, before J. Michael Straczynski starts his run on the title^[12][13][14] and he wrote the Deathstroke one-shot, which was part of the Faces of Evil series which deals with the aftermath of Final Crisis.^[15] He recently wrote the Arkham Asylum one-shot for the Batman Battle for the Cowl event. His one shot lead to a mini series called "Arkham Reborn", the events lead into David Hine taking over Detective Comics continuing the story.

Hine has written two series for indie publisher, Radical Comics, FVZA: The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency,^[16] with art by Roy Allan Martinez, Wayne Nichols, Kinsun Loh and Jerry Choo.^[17] and "Ryder on the Storm" with art by Wayne Nichols, Hugo Petrus, Feigiap Chong and Sansan Saw. From Image Comics, The Bulletproof Coffin with artist Shaky Kane.^[18]

Bibliography

• Tharg's Future Shocks:
  • "The Man from 2000" (art, with Oleh Stepaniuk, in 2000 AD Annual 1981, 1980)
  • "Life Sentence" (script and art, in 2000 AD #893, 1994)
• "Riot" (art, with Vikki, in Knockabout Comics #3, 1981)
• Big Ben (inks, with Dez Skinn, and pencils by Will Simpson, in Warrior #26, 1984)
• Transformers #75 (inks, with Simon Furman, and pencils by Will Simpson, Marvel UK, 1986)
• Spider-man and the Zoids #47 (inks, with Grant Morrison, and pencils by Steve Yeowell, Marvel UK, 1987)
• "Gas Masque!" (inks, with James Hill, and pencils by Brett Ewins, in Action Force #23, 1987)
• "Claws of the Klathi" (inks, with Mike Collins, and pencils by Kev Hopgood, in Doctor Who Magazine #136-138, 1988)
• Death's Head #2-3 (inks, with Simon Furman, and pencils by Bryan Hitch, Marvel UK, 1989)
• Sticky Fingers (art, with Myra Hancock, in Crisis #15-27, 1989)
• "Martin" (script and art, in Revolver: Horror Special, 1990)
• "Didn't you love my brother?" (art, with Tony Allen, in Crisis #35, 1990)
• Tao De Moto (art, with Myra Hancock):
  • "Forbidden Fruit" in 2000 AD #723-749, 1991)
  • "Baby of the Century" in 2000 AD Yearbook 1992, 1991)
• "Up on the roof" (script and art, in Crisis #57, 1991)
• "Worms" (script and art, in Crisis #62, 1991)
• The Spider (with Mark Millar and John Higgins, in 2000 AD Action Special, 1992)
• Warheads: Black Dawn #2 (inks, with Craig Huston, and pencils by Charlie Adlard, Marvel UK, 1992)
• Strange Embrace (script and art, 4-issue mini-series, Atomeka, 1993, 8-issue limited series, Image Comics, June 2007 - January 2008, tpb, Active Images, softcover, 203 pages, July 2003, ISBN 0-9740567-2-3, Image Comics, hardcover, 240 pages, May 2008, ISBN 1-58240-914-5)
• Maniac 5: "War Journal" (with Mark Millar, in 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special 1993)
• Dark Angel #11-13 (inks, with Bernie Jaye, and pencils by Salvador Larroca, Marvel UK, 1993)
• Mambo (script and art):
  • "The New Flesh" (in 2000 AD #889-896, 1994)
  • "Fleshworld" (in 2000 AD #940-947, 1995)
  • "Fleshworks" (in 2000 AD #1014-1022, 1996)
• Judge Dredd: "Blow Out" (art, with John Wagner, in 2000 AD #949, 1995)
• Vector 13: "Case Nine: Spear of Destiny" (art, with Peter Hogan, in 2000 AD #959, 1995)
• X-Men Unlimited #2: "District X" (with Adi Granov, Marvel, June 2004)
• District X (Marvel Knights, Marvel, July 2004 - August 2005) collected as:
  • Mr. M (collects District X #1-6, with pencils by David Yardin, Lan Medina and Mike Perkins, and inks by Alejandro Sicat, Avalon Studios and Drew Hennessy, 144 pages, January 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1444-0)
  • Underground (collects District X #7-12 and X-Men Unlimited #2, with art by Adi Granov, pencils by Lan Medina, and inks by Alejandro Sicat, 200 pages, October 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1602-8)
• Daredevil: Redemption (with Michael Gaydos, Marvel, April–August 2005, tpb, 144 pages, November 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1566-8)
• Mutopia X (with pencils by Lan Medina, and inks by Alejandro Sicat, 5-issue mini-series, Marvel, September 2005- January 2006, tpb, 120 pages, March 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1811-X)
• Spawn #150-184 (Image Comics, 2005–2008)
• X-Men: Colossus Bloodlines (with Jorge Luis Pereira, 5-issue mini-series, Marvel, November 2005 - March 2006, tpb, 120 pages, April 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1900-0)
• Son of M (with Roy Allan Martinez, 6-issue mini-series, February–July 2006, tpb, 144 pages, September 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1970-1)
• X-Men: The 198 (with pencils by Jim Muniz and inks by Juan Doe, 5-issue mini-series, Marvel, March–July 2006, tpb, collects X-Men: The 198 and X-Men: The 198 Files, 168 pages, September 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1994-9)
• Civil War: X-Men (with pencils by Yanick Paquette and inks by Serge LaPointe, 4-issue mini-series, marvel, September–December 2006, tpb, 112 pages, May 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2313-X)
• What if? (Marvel Comics):
  • Deadly Genesis (with pencils by David Yardin and inks by Kris Justice, February 2007, collected in What If?: Event Horizon, July 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2183-8)
  • Annihilation (with art by Rafael Kayanan and Mico Suayan, January 2008, collected in What If?: Civil War, April 2008, ISBN 0-7851-3036-5)
• Inhumans: Silent War (with Frazer Irving, 6-issue mini-series, Marvel, January–June 2007, tpb, 144 pages, October 2007, ISBN 0-7851-2425-X)
• Poison Candy (Tokyopop, February 2008, 192 pages, ISBN 1-4278-0080-4)
• The Joker's Asylum: "Two-Face" (with Andy Clarke, DC, 2008)
• The Brave and the Bold #19-22 (with Doug Braithwaite, DC Comics, 2008–2009)
• Faces of Evil: "Deathstroke" (with Georges Jeanty, DC Comics, 2009)
• Spider-Man Noir (with co-author Fabrice Sapolsky, and art by Carmine di Giandomenico, Marvel Comics,December 2008-March 2009)
• FVZA: The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency, Radical Comics^[19]
• Detective Comics #864-#870 (writer, with art by Jeremy Haun, ongoing series, DC Comics, June 2010–October 2010)
• The Bulletproof Coffin (with artist Shaky Kane, Image Comics, six issues, June 2010-December 2010)
• Batman and Robin #26 (art by Greg Tocchini, Andrei Bressan, ongoing series, DC Comics, August 2011)

Notes

1. ^ David Hine wants to lock you in his "Strange Embrace", Comic Book Resources, March 28th, 2007
2. ^ Strange Embrace and Other Nightmares, Comic Book Resources, August 27, 2008
3. ^ Two Mean Mothers: An Interview with David Hine, Comics Bulletin, August 24, 2006
4. ^ David Hine: Talking Silent War, Newsarama, November 16, 2006
5. ^ David Hine, Part II: Talking Silent War, Comics Bulletin, February 19, 2007
6. ^ Annihilation Makes Things Civil: Hine talks "What If? Annihilation", Comic Book Resources, October 5, 2007
7. ^ David Hine, Part I: Spawning Some New Terror, Comics Bulletin, February 15, 2007
8. ^ Trying Poison Candy with David Hine, Newsarama, September 11, 2007
9. ^ David Hine: Two-Faced Creator Reveals More About Batman Series, Comics Bulletin, May 9, 2008
10. ^ David Hine - Telling the Tale of Two-Face, Newsarama, June 19, 2008
11. ^ The Joker’s Asylum, Part V: Two-Face, Comic Book Resources, July 1, 2008
12. ^ David Hine on his Brave and the Bold Arc, Newsarama, August 27, 2008
13. ^ David Hine: He's Brave as well as Bold, Comics Bulletin, August 29, 2008
14. ^ David Hine: Becoming Braver & Bolder, Comic Book Resources, September 8, 2008
15. ^ David Hine on Deathstroke's Return, Comic Book Resources, November 12, 2008
16. ^ Zombies, Vampires and U.S. History?? David Hine on 'FVZA', Newsarama, March 19, 2009
17. ^ FVZA Issue #1 Sells Out at Distributor Level
18. ^ Rodrik, Alex (May 12, 2010). "David Hine & Shaky Kane: Opening the Bulletproof Coffin". Comics Bulletin. http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/127369078586787.htm. Retrieved June 3, 2010. 
19. ^ Radical Publishing & EerieTube Ask "Are You Infected?"

References

• David Hine at the Grand Comics Database
• David Hine at the Comic Book DB
• David Hine at Barney

Preceded by Greg Rucka	Detective Comics writer 2010	Succeeded by Scott Snyder
Preceded by Fabian Nicieza	Azrael writer 2010-	Succeeded by Incumbent

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