Rob Williams is aWelshcomics writer, working mainly for2000 AD. He is currently writing books forDC Comics and itsVertigo imprint.

Williams started out as a freelance journalist and creator of corporate videos.^[1] He decided to try comics writing resulting inCla$$war, published byCom.x and illustrated by several artists, includingTrevor Hairsine andTravel Foreman. Publishing began in 2002 and, after a three-year hiatus from the publisher a complete collection was released in 2009.^[2]

The comic series was read byAndy Diggle, who was the editor of2000 AD at the time and contacted Williams,^[1] resulting in a number of comics: the two-partAsylum, withBoo Cook, the ongoingLow Life,^[3] initially withHenry Flint^[4] and one-offs likeBreathing Space withLaurence Campbell.^[5]

He would again team up with Campbell for the 2006Wolverine Christmas Special^[6] and later aPunisherMAX one-shot.^[7] Williams would then go on to get other work forMarvel Comics, including a story in theDark X-Men: The Beginning anthology, aCaptain Britain story inDeadpool Team Up and aGhost Rider one-shot that ties into theDaredevil storylineShadowland.^[8][9] He returned to Ghost Rider with a neweponymousongoing series, launched as part of the "Fear Itself" storyline,^[10] for which he also wrote theUncanny X-Force mini-series.^[11][12] Other Marvel comics announced around the same time includeThe Iron Age metaseries,^[13][14][15]Skaar: King of theSavage Land limited series,^[16] and takes over the writing of theDaken: Dark Wolverine ongoing series.^[17][18] Following that slew of announcements, on 22 April 2011 he announced that he had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel.^[15]

Williams has also written comics based on a number ofintellectual properties, including stories forStar Wars Tales andStar Wars: Rebellion^[19] comics fromDark Horse, and, with the same publisher, writingIndiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods.^[20][21] ForDynamite Entertainment he is writingRoboCop,^[22][23] with artistFabiano Neves.^[24]

• Cla$$war (with artist byTrevor Hairsine (#1–3) andTravel Foreman (#4–6), 6-issuelimited series,Com.x, January 2002 – 2004,tpb, 2003, collectsCla$$war #1–3, hardcover, 210 pages, 2009,ISBN 1-60743-816-X)
• Asylum (withBoo Cook, tpb, April 2007,ISBN 1-904265-67-7):
  • "Asylum" (in2000 AD #1313–1321, October 2002)
  • "Asylum 2" (in2000 AD #1406–1414, 2004)
• Family (withSimon Fraser, inJudge Dredd Megazine #201–207, January–July 2003)
• "Ghosts of Hoth" (withCary Nord, inStar Wars Tales 17, October 2003)
• Nomad (withBrandon Badeaux):
  • "Nomad, Chapter one" (inStar Wars Tales 21, 2004)
  • "Nomad, Chapter two" (inStar Wars Tales 22, 2005)
  • "Nomad, Chapter three" (inStar Wars Tales 23, 2005)
  • "Nomad, Chapter four" (inStar Wars Tales 24, 2005)
• Low Life:
  • Mega-City Undercover (160 pages,Rebellion Developments, January 2008,ISBN 1-905437-52-8) collects:
    • "Paranoia" (withHenry Flint, in2000 AD #1387–1396, 2004)
    • "Heavy Duty" (with Henry Flint, in2000 AD #1397–1399, 2004)
    • "Rock and a Hard Place" (withSimon Coleby, in2000 AD #1425–1428, 2005)
    • "He's making a list..." (with Simon Coleby, in2000 AD prog 2006, 2005)
    • "Con Artist" (with Simon Coleby, in2000 AD #1484–1490, 2006)
    • "Baby Talk" (with Simon Coleby, in2000 AD #1521–1524, 2007)
  • "War without Bloodshed" (withRufus Dayglo, inJudge Dredd Megazine, #271–274, 2008)
  • "Creation" (withD'Israeli, in2000 AD #1624–1631, 2009)
  • "Hostile Takeover" (with D'Israeli, in2000 AD #1700–1709, 2010)
  • "The Deal" (with D'Israeli, in2000 AD #1750-1761, 2011)
• "Lucky" (withMichel Lacombe, inStar Wars Tales 23, 2005)
• "Marked" (withCully Hamner, inStar Wars Tales 24, 2005)
• Breathing Space (withPeter Doherty (#1451–1452),Laurence Campbell (pencils #1453–1459) andLee Townsend (inks #1453–1459), in2000 AD #1451–59, 2005)
• Star Wars: Rebellion:My Brother, My Enemy (withMichel Lacombe, 5-issue mini-series, Dark Horse, 2006)
• Meet Darren Dead (withJohn Higgins):
  • "Meet Darren Dead" (inJudge Dredd Megazine No. 240, January 2006)
  • "Eats, Shoots & Kills" (inJudge Dredd Megazine #287–289, August–October 2009)
• The Ten-Seconders:
  • "The American Dream" (withMark Harrison, in2000 AD #1469–1479, January–March 2006)
  • "Make. Believe" (withDom Reardon (1–3) andShaun Thomas (4–6) andBen Oliver (7–13), in2000 AD #1578–1588, March–May 2008)
• Wolverine No. 49 (with Laurence Campbell, Special Double-Sized X-Mas Special, 2006,Marvel Comics, collected inWolverine: Blood and Sorrow, June 2007,ISBN 0-7851-2607-4)^[25][26]
• Judge Dredd:
  • "The Biographer" (with Boo Cook, in2000 AD #1537, 2007)
  • "Ownership" (withRichard Elson, in2000 AD #1587–1588, 2008)
  • "Out Law" (withGuy Davis, inJudge Dredd Megazine No. 296, March 2010)^[27][28]
  • "The Slow Walk" (with Boo Cook, in2000 AD #1698, August 2010)
  • "The Walking Dredd" (withBrendan McCarthy, inJudge Dredd Megazine No. 311, June 2011)
• Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods (withSteve Scott, 5-issue limited series, Dark Horse, 2008)
• "DarkDaken" (withPaco Diaz, inDark X-Men: The Beginning No. 2, Marvel Comics, September 2009)
• Ghostbusters: Past, Present And Future (withDiego Jourdan Pereira,IDW Publishing, December 2009)
• RoboCop (with artistNick Barrucci, 6-issue limited series,Dynamite Entertainment, January–August 2010)
• PunisherMAX: Get Castle (with Laurence Campbell,one-shot,MAX, March 2010)
• The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (with Dom Reardon, in2000 AD #1677–1688, March–June 2010)
• Deadpool Team Up No. 893, 897 (withMatteo Scalera, Marvel Comics, May 2010, January 2011)
• "Survivors" (withDoug Braithwaite, inX-Men:Curse of the Mutants – X-Men vs. Vampires No. 1, 2-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, September 2010)
• "Canada, Man!" (withPhilip Bond, inDeadpool #1000, Marvel Comics, October 2010)
• Shadowland:Ghost Rider (withClayton Crain, one-shot, Marvel Comics, November 2010)
• Heroic Age: One Month To Live No. 2 (with pencils byShawn Moll/Koi Turnbull, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, November 2010, collected in hardcover, 128 pages, January 2011,ISBN 978-0-7851-4903-3)
• "Silence" (withPablo Peppino, inTomb of Terror, one-shot, Marvel Comics, December 2010)
• What If?: Wolverine: Father (withGreg Tocchini, one-shot, Marvel Comics, February 2011)
• "Spikes" (withRebekah Isaacs, inCaptain America andFalcon, one-shot, Marvel Comics, May 2011)^[29]
• "Can't Get the Service" (with pencils byLee Garbett, inThe Amazing Spider-Man #658–660, Marvel Comics, June–July 2011)
• Skaar: King of the Savage Land (with pencils byBrian Ching, 5-issue limited series, Marvel Comics, June–September 2011)
• Daken: Dark Wolverine #9.1- (withMatteo Buffagni,ongoing series, Marvel Comics, July 2011 – present)
• Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human (withPJ Holden, 5-issue limited series, Dynamite Entertainment, July–November 2011, tpb, 104 pages, March 2012,ISBN 1-60690-260-1)
• The Iron Age No. 1, 3 (withBen Oliver andRoberto De La Torre, 3-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, August–October 2011)
• Ghost Rider #0.1-9 (withMatthew Clark, ongoing series, Marvel Comics, August 2011 – May 2012)
• Fear Itself:Uncanny X-Force (withSimone Bianchi, 3-issue mini-series, Marvel Comics, September 2011 – November 2011)^[11]
• Think of a City page 20 (withSimon Gane, Internet art project, 2014)
• Avenging Spider-Man Annual No. 1

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• Official website
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• Rob Williams at 2000AD online
• Q&A thread on 2000 AD forum

• 2005 Interview by 2000ADReview
• Podcast Interview by The Legion of Dudes on RoboCop, Star Wars and more.
• 2014 Interview by Pop Culture Bandit on Doctor Who: The 11th Doctor series.

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