Ben Oliver is a British

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who has worked for '' 2000 AD'' on '' Judge Dredd'' as well as providing art for '' The Authority'', '' The Losers'', and '' Ultimate X-Men''

Biography

Ben Oliver lives in Bristol, his first professional work in England came out in 2000. He started work on '' Judge Dredd'' and then illustrated the

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. His first professional work in America came out in 2003 when he got work at DC Comics imprints, like Wildstorm, Vertigo and America's Best Comics. He then moved to Marvel Comics where he worked on '' Ultimate X-Men'', a couple of ''

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'' one-shots with Christos Gage and a '' Wolverine'' one-shot written by Simon Spurrier. Recent projects include returning to ''2000 AD'' to finish of the second ''

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'' story and to illustrate another ''Judge Dredd'' story by Al Ewing. He also returned to Wildstorm to work on "A Narrow Pass!" written by Uttley, a back-up feature running through the core Wildstorm Universe titles involved with the

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storyline. Oliver returned to Marvel to pencil the one-shots " Ultimatum: X-Men Requiem" and " Dark Reign: The List - Hulk". He drew '' The Multiversity: The Just'' (Dec. 2014), the third issue of Grant Morrison's ''The Multiversity'' project.

Bibliography

*'' Judge Dredd'': ** "You're a Better Man Than I Am, Gunga Dinsdale" (with John Wagner, in '' 2000 AD'' #1210,

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) ** "Bring Me the Heart of P. J. Maybe" (with John Wagner, in ''2000 AD'' #1211, 2000) ** "Dead Ringer" (with John Wagner, in '' Judge Dredd Megazine'', vol. 3 #68, 2000) ** "Cockroaches" (with Al Ewing, in ''2000 AD'' #1627, 2009) *''

'' (with

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, 2001–2002) *'' The Authority:

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'' (with John Ridley, Wildstorm,

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, ) *'' The Losers'' #20-22 (pencils (20-21) and art (22), with Andy Diggle and inks by

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(20-21), Vertigo, March–August 2005, collected in ''Close Quarters'', collects #20-25, 144 pages,

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) *'' Tom Strong'' #33: "The Journey Within" (with

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, America's Best Comics, August 2005, collected in ''Tom Strong Book 6'', hardcover, December 2006, ) *'' Vigilante'' (with

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, 6-issue limited series, DC Comics, November 2005 - April 2006) *'' Ultimate X-Men'' (with

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, Marvel Comics): ** " Phoenix?" (in ''Ultimate X-Men'' #69-71, 2006, collected in ''Ultimate X-Men Volume 14: Phoenix?'', 2006, ) ** " Cable" (in ''Ultimate X-Men'' #75-78, 2006–2007, collected in ''Ultimate X-Men Volume 16: Cable'', 2007, ) ** " Cliffhanger" (in ''Ultimate X-Men'' #81, 2007, collected in ''Ultimate X-Men Volume 17: Sentinels'', 2008, ) *''

'' (with Christos Gage, Marvel Comics, collected in ''Thunderbolts: Secret Invasion'', 168 pages, March 2009, ): ** "International Incident" (

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, February 2008) ** "Thunderbolts: Reason in Madness" (one-shot, May 2008) * ''

The Ten-Seconders ''The Ten-Seconders'' is a comics story which appeared in the British anthology magazine '' 2000 AD'', written by Rob Williams and drawn by Mark Harrison, Dom Reardon, Ben Oliver, Edmund Bagwell, Shaun Thomas and Ben Willsher. It is about a gro ...

'': "Make. Believe." (with Rob Williams, ''2000 AD'' #1584-1588, April–June 2008) * "Tally Ho" (with Simon Spurrier, in '' Wolverine: Dangerous Game'', one-shot, Marvel Comics, June 2008) * '' Young X-Men'' #6-7 (with Marc Guggenheim, Marvel Comics, November–December 2008) * "A Narrow Pass!" (with Russell Uttley, Wildstorm, April–May 2009): ** ''

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'' #8 ** '' Gen¹³'' #28 ** '' Stormwatch: P.H.D.'' #20 ** '' The Authority'' #8 *'' Alpha Flight'' #0.1 (pencils, with writers Greg Pak/ Fred Van Lente and inks by Dan Green, Marvel Comics, July 2011) *'' Batwing'' #1-6 (with Judd Winick,

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'' #1, #4 (with Greg Pak, DC Comics, August/December 2013) *'' Justice League'' #23.2 "

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" (with Marguerite Bennett, DC Comics, November 2013) *" The Multiversity" #1 "The Just" (with Grant Morrison, DC Comics, October 2014)

Notes

References

*
Ben Oliver
at 2000 AD online
Ben Oliver
at Marvel.com

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