Si Spencer (1961-2021), whose blog is here, was a British comics writer who also wrote for television and for American comics. For Crisis he wrote 'Two Pretty Names' and 'Strange Hotel'; for the Judge Dredd Mega-Special #4 he wrote Judge Death; for the 2000 AD Action Special he wrote Mytek the Mighty; and for the Judge Dredd Megazine he wrote Judge Dredd, Plagues of Necropolis, Creep and HAVN. He also created the avaricious Cursed Earth antique dealers Harke & Burr, whose adventures ended up in the Megazine after, failing to find any other home for them, he switched the location of the series from Victorian Edinburgh to a Cursed Earth town that looks like Victorian Edinburgh. And he wrote a number of stories for Revolver, which never saw print as in the end it only lasted seven issues. He was also the editor of Deadline for a while in the early 90s.
Spencer wrote the final episode of The Corps for 2000 AD because Garth Ennis was frantically busy. It was Spencer, therefore, who penned the "dodgy Penthouse-style lesbian encounter" that had to be omitted to keep down the page count. (Source: Thrill-Power Overload by David Bishop.) Si died suddenly in February 2021.
His Facebook page is here.
Torchwood[]
Fans of Doctor Who might be interested to know that Si once wrote a script for the spin-off series Torchwood, which was never made for reasons that have not been made public. Si describes this as not being a good experience. He also recommends that anyone interested in the problems of dealing with TV companies read a book, titled Torch, Wood and Peasants, by one Webley Wildfoot. Still available on Amazon, it describes Mr Wildfoot's experience of writing an abortive script for a TV show called Alien Sex Cops, a spin-off of popular sci-fi drama Mercury Steele. Curiously, neither of these shows appears to actually exist. Neither does Webley Wildfoot.