Aaron Dembski-Bowden

The mag size indicates that he only has about 6 shots. The question is, did he already fire four, or six?

Aaron is not Graham McNeil.

A writer of 40K awesomeness for the Black Library and occasional fa/tg/uy. He's also involved in the fan project The Lord Inquisitor, but he's just one of many. He also has a blog. Also worked on Hunter: The Vigil.

A younger, even sexier version of Dan Abnett with a bigger dick and a smaller word count. Member of the Bald Brotherhood of Awesome 40K Writers, also known as the Bald Bards of Steel.

He wrote the short piece of fiction, Dude, Where's my Land Speeder?.

Aaron Dembski-Bowden is also well-liked by Daemonhunter lore masters, due to his effort in at least making the new Grey Knights lore more palatable (given the rage-inducing material he had to work with). Where there was once just Mary Sues after the Glory Days of 3rd Ed, now there is at least a semblance of deeper character to the 5th Ed Grey Knights outside the idiocy written by a certain Spiritual Liege. He even ties them back into threads left from Ravenor, so that the influence of Saint Abnett can cleanse them.

He's also pretty well-liked by Ultramarine players for making them cool again.

In fact he's pretty good at making all factions awesome but imperfect. See, for example, his portrayal of Angron. While Angron is indeed a dreaded unstoppable killing machine, he's also a pitiful character who blames others for his problems.

He is quickly approaching Dan Abnett's record of number of beloved characters murdered. Seriously. Reading his books, especially the Horus Heresy ones, is like watching him rip your heart out and chew on it while he coos "Was it good for you too?"

Lest you think we're going soft, though, we should point out that he has received some pretty harsh criticism. for his portrayal of The Emprah as a raging torrent of incompetence and jackassery the likes of which Earth had not seen since Mussolini made his last public appearance upside down at a petrol station (although, to be fair, he mostly portrays traitor legions who have a... less than positive view of the guy). Some have accused him of turning the Horus Heresy books into a public therapy session for his daddy issues, which, to be fair, is comparable to CS Goto using his books as a public therapy session for his depression at not having the chops to be a Hollywood screenwriter. He also has a major issue of making the characters he likes look perfect while shitting on other groups: see his Grey Knights book which becomes a Space Wolves wank and The First Heretic which likewise turns into a love song for his beloved Night Lords (for the two pages they're present - Sevatar and Argel Tal have a snark-off, and Kurze sneers at Lorgar).

He has also committed himself to rehabilitating the reputation of Abaddon the Despoiler, with all the controversy that implies. Although, he's certainly not above ripping into old Failbaddon either, as evidenced in the Night Lords trilogy when Talos met Abaddon, and had nothing but open contempt for him, point blank outlining all the reasons the Despoiler and his Legion sucked, to his face. This is particularly noteworthy when contrasted with Talos' encounter with Huron Blackheart, whose power, authority, and achievements Talos had genuine respect for, even if he was planning on backstabbing the Corsairs.

Through his novels you can notice a few things about him:

• He likes Chaotic neutral(ish) characters
• He is hence great a writing Robert E. Howard-styled characters (how is that he hasn't written any Conan pastiche?)
• He enjoys writing in first-point-of-view, although he can work in third-point-of-view
• He mostly portrays Space Marines in his novels, although he has a few works with non-SM as well.
• If there is a ship at one of her stories, expect him to make the ship be controlled by a young woman (ship-girls anyone?)
• He definitely doesn't get well with abrahamic religions, or their priests (we may asume this is the source of the so called "daddy issues")
• He also isn't really sympathetic to order-aligned factions
• He dislikes fat people
• He seems to have been the one in charge of breaking the classic image of the Emperor, turning him from a grimdark Sigmar into an emotionless Lex Luthor
• He considers the 40k franchise fated to be won by Chaos (It will be funny seeing him getting charged to write some stuff about Age of Sigmar)

His Facebook posts are pretty incredible. Go and check them out.