A star comic writer had been born, and he never looked back.

Six half-hour tribute programmes to an admittedly wonderful comic writer and performer did seem a little excessive at first.

Let's have another comic writer.

Between them they have done what all good comic writers aspire to do - to create a fully imagined world and populate it with ripe characters.

This use of comic writers on the television series tended to make them a very faithful adaption to the comic book mythos.