He is an Irish writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo serie Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
Peter Milligan has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd. Somehow in the midst of this he managed to carve out a second career as a superhero writer.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. With the exception of his series "Enigma", none of Milligan's Vertigo work have ever been collected into trade paperback form; rendering the majority of his stronger output long out of print.
Milligan seemingly takes vacations from the comic book industry here and there as, after the cancellation of his "X-Statix" opus and the end of his run on X-Men, it was a few years before he resurfaced with "The Programme" from Wildstorm. Since resurfacing, Milligan has been working steadily for the Big Two (Marvel and DC), with limited series such as "Sub Mariner: The Depths". Currently, Milligan has finally been tapped to write DC Vertigo's Hellblazer; a project many have felt to be long overdue for him to take a crack at as he is pretty much the last notable British comic writer who has been active since the mid 80's, is known on both sides of the Pond, and has not yet written so much as a 1-2 issue stint for Hellblazer (the extent of Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison's work with the title).
