title: Hewligan's Haircut
author:  Peter Milligan 
description: Peter Milligan is one of <i>2000 AD's </i>most prolific story creators, and has now, of course, graduated to much wider comics fame. As well as&nbsp;co-creating <i>Hewligan's Haircut </i>with Jamie Hewlett, Milligan created the classic future war story <i>Bad Company, </i>in addition to creating <i>Freaks, Shadows, Sooner or Later, The Dead and Tribal Memories. </i>He also contributed several short stories and <BR><BR><i>Future Shocks</i>, and<i> </i>has written <i>Judge Dredd</i> and <i>Rogue Trooper stories. </i>His&nbsp; work outside the Galaxy's Greatest Comic has received enormous critical and fan acclaim; notably Vertigo's existentialist superhero mystery <i>Enigma, via The Eaters Human Target, Girl, Tank Girl: The Odyssey, Al, Animal Man, Batman, Minx, Shade the Changing Man and Skreemer</i>. His most recent works are Marvel's best-selling <i>X-Statix,</i> a vicious pop culture satire, and <i>Vertigo Pop! London,</i>&nbsp; a rock'n' roll tale of the big city, and Greek Street also for Vertigo.<BR><BR>&nbsp;<BR><BR>Jamie Hewlett is best known for his work on <i>Tank Girl, </i>the&nbsp; hugely popular anarchic British comics heroine whose adventures were turned into a big-budget Hollywood movie in the 1990s.&nbsp; To <i>2000 AD</i> fans, of course Hewlett is best known for his co-creation of <i>Hewligan's Haircut, </i>but he also provided art for <i>Judge Dredd </i>and <i>Sooner or Later. </i>His most recent artwork is visible in the videos of the band Gorillaz:&nbsp; Hewlwtt designed the cartoon characters that represent the band "live", as well as designing the set and costumes for international sensation <i>Monkey, </i>a Chinese opera by Blur and Gorillaz front man Damon Albarn.
zlib_text: For my dear readers. This one’s for you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > “I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the
  > best does.”
  
  > —L. M. MONTGOMERY, Anne of Green Gables
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1
  
  
  I LIKE TO WATCH PETER when he doesn’t know I’m looking. I like to admire the
  straight line of his jaw, the curve of his cheekbone. There’s an openness to
  his face, an innocence—a certain kind of niceness. It’s the niceness that
  touches my heart the most.
  
  
  It’s Friday night at Gabe Rivera’s house after the lacrosse game. Our school
  won, so everyone is in very fine spirits, Peter most of all, because he scored
  the winning shot. He’s across the room playing poker with some of the guys
  from his team; he is sitting with his chair tipped back, his back against the
  wall. His hair is still wet from showering after the game. I’m on the couch
  with my friends Lucas Krapf and Pammy Subkoff, and they’re flipping through
  the latest issue of Teen Vogue, debating whether or not Pammy should get
  bangs.
  
  