Young Avengers Modern Era Epic Collection: Dark Reign

• Zeb Wells is a writer for the Emmy Award-winning animated series Robot Chicken and co-creator of the stop-motion SuperMansion. He began his Marvel career with the New Warriors limited series, which inspired story threads for Civil War, and also wrote the Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways tie-in. His collaboration with Seth Fisher on Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan is noted for its charm. Wells’ other credits include Daredevil: Battlin’ Jack Murdock, Venom: Dark Origin, Dark Reign: Elektra, and Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One. He contributed to the “Brand New Day” era of Amazing Spider-Man, notably the “Shed” storyline, wrote two Carnage limited series, and helped relaunch New Mutants. He has since returned to Amazing Spider-Man with John Romita Jr.

• Ed Brubaker is a multiple Eisner Award winner. After acclaimed runs at DC on Scene of the Crime, Sleeper, Catwoman, and Gotham Central, he moved to Marvel. His Captain America relaunch, which controversially revived Bucky Barnes as the Winter Soldier, was highly praised. He also penned X-Men: Deadly Genesis and took over Uncanny X-Men. Brubaker and Michael Lark worked on Daredevil, and Brubaker co-created Immortal Iron Fist with Matt Fraction and David Aja. He is the creator of the creator-owned series Criminal and Incognito for Marvel’s Icon imprint, and has since achieved success at Image Comics with Fatale, Velvet, and The Fade Out. Beyond comics, Brubaker has written for TV’s Westworld and co-created the crime drama Too Old to Die Young.

• Brian Reed spent a decade designing and writing video games, including Ultimate Spider-Man, before entering the comics industry. He wrote a 50-issue run on Ms. Marvel, chronicled the return of Captain Marvel, co-authored New Avengers: Illuminati, and created the series The Circle. Reed has also written tie-in issues for major events like Secret Invasion: Spider-Man, Secret Invasion: Front Line, and Siege: Embedded.

• Stefano Caselli is an Italian illustrator who began his American comics career in the early 2000s, working on titles such as Marvel’s Mutant X and Thunderbolts. He gained further recognition for his work on Avengers: The Initiative, Secret Warriors, and Avengers Assemble. Caselli was part of the rotating art team on Dan Slott’s Amazing Spider-Man and collaborated with Jonathan Hickman on Avengers. He worked with Brian Michael Bendis on a run of Invincible Iron Man featuring Riri Williams and joined Gerry Duggan on the X-Men series Marauders.

• Paco Medina has illustrated a variety of Marvel Comics titles, including New X-Men: Academy X, Captain Marvel, Thor, Venom, Marvel Team-Up, New Mutants, and New Warriors. He has also worked on relaunches of Deadpool and X-Men. Medina has had significant runs on Ultimate Comics X-Men, Nova, and Legendary Star-Lord, and played a major role in the Avengers storyline “No Surrender.”

• Mark Brooks is an Atlanta-based artist who studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design. After working on Transformers for Dreamwave Productions and Voltron for Devil’s Due, he joined Marvel as the penciler for Marvel Age Spider-Man. Brooks illustrated the early appearances of the heroine Arana in Amazing Fantasy and has drawn Amazing Spider-Man, Cable & Deadpool, New X-Men, Ultimate Spider-Man Annual, X-Men Unlimited, Avengers: The Initiative, and Dark Reign: Young Avengers. He is widely recognized for his cover art and promotional illustrations for major Marvel series and events.

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