Jody Houser decided she wanted to be a writer when she was 8 years old. She earned her MFA in creative writing at Emerson College in Boston, where she completed her master’s thesis in screenwriting and was a winner of the Rod Parker Fellowship for Playwriting. She is the creator behind the web comic Cupcake POW! and has contributed to numerous comics anthologies including Womanthology: Heroic and Womanthology: Space for IDW, CMYK: Magenta for Vertigo and Avengers: No More Bullying for Marvel. Her early Marvel credits include The Cavalry: S.H.I.E.L.D. 50th Anniversary one-shot, as well as the James Patterson adaptations Max Ride: Ultimate Flight and Max Ride: Final Flight. She told tales of the alternate-universe Parker family in Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows and explored the galaxy far, far away in Star Wars: Rogue One Adaptation and Star Wars: Thrawn.

Brazilian artist Luke Ross has been drawing comics since the early ’90s, proving himself an able stylist of super hero action on titles such as X-Man, Sensational Spider-Man, Green Lantern and JSA. Ross stepped in for Mike Perkins as foil to Steve Epting on writer Ed Brubaker’s Captain America and joined a rotation of Marvel’s top artists on the thrice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man. His other Marvel credits include Secret Avengers, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger — The Little Sisters of Eluria, Star Wars: Darth Maul and Star Wars: Thrawn.