Career
Watters's first creator-owned comic was the six-issue comic Limbo, which he made with artist Caspar Wijngaard and was published in 2015-2016 through Image Comics. ComicsAlliance described the book as "Lovecraft meets Cronenberg as Innsmouth and Videodrome collide in an explosion of magic, myth, jazz and Kafka." [1] Watters and Wijngaard continued working together, doing stories for Dark Souls and Assassin's Creed for Titan Comics. [2] Watters then worked with Alex Paknadel to do a comic adaptation of Little Nightmares [3] before working on The Shadow with Si Spurrier and Wolfenstein . [4] [5]
In 2018, he released Deep Roots through Vault Comics, which was one of the first comics he created as part of White Noise, the British comic collective made up of Watters, Ryan O’Sullivan, Alex Paknadel, and Ram V. [6] He was then announced as the writer for Lucifer for DC's Sandman Universe imprint [7] and co-wrote House of Whispers with Nalo Hopkinson. [8] In 2019, he and artist Dani put out the creator-owed Coffin Bound though Image, a surreal post-apocalyptic western. [9] [10] [11]
In 2020, he re-teamed with Wijngaard to publish Home Sick Pilots, a "punk rock horror" comic, through Image. [12] [13] [14] [15] He also published The Picture of Everything Else, a take of The Picture of Dorian Gray , through Vault. [16] [17] In 2021, he teamed up with artist Dani again to work on Arkham City: The Order of the World, a six-issue mini-series for DC Comics about a psychiatrist from Arkham Asylum attempting to find a number of patients who have escaped into the city. [18] As part of the book, they reinvented the villain the Ten-Eyed Man. [19]
In 2021, he and artist Lamar Mathurin worked on Titan's four issue Cowboy Bebop comic, adapting from the 2021 Netflix show, [20] [21] and in 2022, he wrote a six-issue Sword of Azrael mini-series for DC with artist Nikola Čižmešija. [22] [23] In 2022, it was announced by Humanoids that Watters would write one of the prequel graphic novels for The Incal called Dying Star, with artist Jon Davis-Hunt. [24] In 2023, he worked with artist Sebastián Cabrol on The Seasons Have Teeth, a four-issue series from Boom! Studios, [25] and with artist Germán Peralta on Loki for Marvel. [26] [27] [28]
In September 2023, he worked with Ram V on Detective Comics and then, in 2024, they wrote Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! together for Skybound/Image. [29] [30] [31] He and Ram V also worked together on two Image mini-series that would tell one story about a serial killer in a neo-noir cyberpunk setting: Ram V writing The One Hand and Watters writing The Six Fingers. [32] [33] He was also announced to be the writer for the Destro mini-series at Skybound. [34]
In March 2024, he was announced as the writer for Titan's Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor series. [35] [36] In July 2014, he was announced along with artist Dexter Soy as the new creative team for Nightwing . [37] In September on 2024, it was announced that he and artist Hayden Sherman would work on the twelve-issue mini-series Batman: Dark Patterns, which will take a look at four of Batman's early cases in Gotham, described as "lo-fi, mystery focused." [38] [39] [40]
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