After starting in Crisis, he was signed up for the short-lived title Revolver, where two long series, 'Stickleback' and 'YoYo', were intended to run.
In North America, his work has appeared primarily in series published by DC Comics under its Vertigo imprint, such as Books of Magick: Life During Wartime.
After winning a 'New Voices' competition with the play Tracey and Lewis, he secured a position at the BBC as script editor on prime-time cop show City Central.
He later worked as a staff writer for the BBC's EastEnders and ITV's The Bill in addition to being storyliner and series editor and contributing scripts to Grange Hill.
However, a 2010 book Torch, Wood & Peasants, which was credited to "Webley Wildfoot", details the story of a writer on a fictitious British SF series and contains a script that has several strong similarities to Torchwood.