Career
Mills was looking for a black writer to help him create a nightmare urban world based in the United Kingdom. lieutenant was the beginning of a writing partnership that would last until 2004. In Crisis, the revolutionary political comic from Fleetway, Mitchell worked on Books 2 and 3 of the controversial story, Third World War. This was a complex and hard hitting narrative that covered issues including matriarchy, police racism, no-go areas, private police forces, class war, and black resistance (Newsinger, 1999).
The stories anticipated the surveillance society and Macpherson by at least a decade.
Mitchell also had the opportunity of writing an Amnesty International story "Prisoner of Justice" with Glenn Fabry as artist. Amongst the most memorable Third World War" stories were "Liat’s Law" parts 1&2 with artist Duncan Fegredo, and "The Black Manitoba’s Burden".
This classic quartet of stories, with John Hicklenton"s art, introduced the character of the villainous Chief Inspector Ryan, the embodiment of racism within the police force (Newsinger, 1999). The tales provided the platform that Mills had framed for Mitchell to express his political perspective and cultural concerns of the time.
Sean Phillips was the other major artist who collaborated on a number of framing episodes.
(Newsinger, 1999) Mitchell partnered Mills in the first American Broadcasting Company Warriors novel The Medusa War for Black Library based on elements changed or removed from the scripts. According to Mills:.
