Hopgood started his career in British comics getting work at 2000 AD and Marvel UK from the mid-1980s onwards on titles like Tharg's Future Shocks, Spider-Man and Zoids, and Action Force.
[1] Hopgood took a break from comics following his Iron Man run, working in computer games for three years.
His most notable credit during this time is on the space shooter Blast Radius published by Psygnosis.
Hopgood returned to British comics in the mid-late 1990s with a run on the rebooted Harlem Heroes story at 2000 AD and the Warhammer Fantasy series Darkblade for Games Workshop with writer Dan Abnett.
He revisited War Machine recently with a "cutaway" style illustration for the Marvel Fact Files published by Eaglemoss.