W. Haden Blackman is a writer and creative director who has worked across a wide range of media. He has been a director and producer at LucasArts, where he led multiple teams of designers, engineers and artists in telling new interactive stories, and won numerous awards for outstanding video-game writing from both the WGA and Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences for his work on Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. His comic-book credits include Darth Vader & the Lost Command, The Field Guide to North American Monsters, The Field Guide to North American Hauntings, The Irons, the New York Times Best-Selling Batwoman for DC Comics and Marvel's Elektra.

Tom Taylor is a multi-award-winning and New York Times best-selling comic book author, playwright and screenwriter. He is well known for his work on Superior Iron Man, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Earth 2, various Star Wars titles and his graphic-novel series The Deep. Taylor continued X-23's adventures in All-New Wolverine and brought her into the cast of X-Men Red, featuring the newly returned Jean Grey. He then put the focus on Peter Parker and his home in Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Taylor has enjoyed further success at DC with books including DCeased and Suicide Squad.

John Nadeau is known for drawing multiple series in Dark Horse Comics' Aliens line, as well as his contributions to the publisher's Star Wars output -- not least as the most frequent artist on Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron.

A newcomer to Marvel Comics, former Star Wars artist Brian Ching's first credits for the House of Ideas include Incredible Hulks and Chaos War: Thor.

Multitalented Filipino artist Bong Dazo has been a guitarist, textile designer, animator and graphic designer, but his true love is comic books. Dazo has illustrated numerous titles -- including The Irregulars and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for Dark Horse, and Micronauts for Image. For Marvel, he has handled art chores on Deadpool: Merc with a Mouth, Secret Invasion: War of Kings and Thunderbolts during the "Magnum Opus" crossover with Deadpool.