Editing Graham McNeill

A writer for the '''[[Black Library]]'''.

Not [[Dan Abnett]], but forms the Holy Trinity of Black Library writers with him and [[Sandy Mitchell]], (Which makes [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden|ADB]] the holy child or something)

Wrote the [[Ultramarines]] novels and some [[Iron Warriors]] shit. When he's writing them, the Ultramarines are not just tolerable but actually awesome.

He's also written several [[Horus Heresy]] books, including ''A Thousand Sons'', the first Black Library book to hit the New York Times Bestseller list, the infamous short story ''[[The Last Church]]''. On the other hand, he did write ''The Reflection Crack'd'', which had [[Fabius Bile]] rape [[Fulgrim]] with an iron rod. So fail there. Oh, and Codex: [[Black Templars]].

He also wrote the Time of Legend: Sigmar novels, the third novel of which gives a brief preview of the origin story of Morkar the Uniter. Very nice Mr McNeill, ''now write that story''. 

McNeill's writing style is very 'tell, don't show.'  His books tend to have characters deliver their lines in uninterrupted chunks with minimal indication of what's going on around them, and very flat emotional inflection in dialogue.

On the other hand, his stories have a wealth of background information and detail, and his few character driven stories are very good as well (read Priests of Mars).

Priest of Mars also makes rape camps canon, just though you would like to know (able they're heretical).


==Differences with Matt Ward==
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He's taller and has less hair than Ward. Also, he wrote the Ultramarines from the perspective of a <s>novelist</s> writer above the third-grade level, so they're not simply [[Mary Sue]]s. Ward's inability to stop jerking off over the Smurfs leads him to depict them as caricatures of themselves that can do no wrong, whereas McNeil is a more competent writer who's willing to let the Ultramarines have flaws without making them look like absolute failures.


That said he's far from being universally liked. Some Ultramarines fans view him as going too far in the other way.  Making them total failures and a vibe of "Cool Smurfs don't follow the Codex" and that the lead character Uriel Ventris, becomes the biggest mary sue of any Smurf.  

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