Mark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios. His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades. Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.

Tom Peyer is an American comic book creator and editor. He is known for his 1999 revisioning of Golden Age super-hero Hourman, as well as his work on the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 1990s. An editor at DC Comics/Vertigo from 1987 to 1993, he served as assistant editor on Neil Gaiman's groundbreaking Sandman. Peyer has also worked for Marvel Comics, Wildstorm, and Bongo Comics. With John Layman, he wrote the 2007–2009 Tek Jansen comic book, based on the Stephen Colbert character.

Librarian note: there is more than one author with this name Joe Casey is an American comic book writer. He has worked on titles such as Wildcats 3.0, Uncanny X-Men, The Intimates, Adventures of Superman, and G.I. Joe: America's Elite among others. As part of the comics creator group Man of Action Studios, Casey is one of the creators of the animated series Ben 10. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe\_Casey

A contributing author to the science fiction/super hero anthology THE DARKER MASK, his story "Housework" introduces readers to the city of Misery, Missouri and the character of Birdie McIntyre—both of which he intends to return to shortly. He has also written short stories for DC/Vertigo and penned tales for Superman, Wonder Woman and the critically acclaimed super hero series The Authority. A native of The City of Angels, he lives near the ocean with his wife, science fiction/fantasy author Janine Ellen Young, and their cat Anais. THE MONARCHY:BULLETS OF BABYLON collects the first half of his twelve issue comics series The Monarchy, published by DC Comics/Wildstorm. Listen to the author speak during an interview regarding THE DARKER MASK available here: http://www.adventuresinscifipublishin...