About the Author

Writer Al Ewing began his career on the British anthology 2000 AD. Since breaking into American comics, he has written Jennifer Blood and spin-off series The Ninjettes for Dynamite Entertainment, and the Age of Ultron tie-in issues of Avengers Assemble for Marvel Comics. Ewing's novels include the Pax Britannia series as well as The Fictional Man. With artist Greg Land, he relaunched Marvel's Mighty Avengers; for All-New Marvel NOW!, gave the god of mischief a new assignment in Loki- Agent of Asgard. Ewing then took revamped versions of New Avengers and Ultimates, debuted U.S.Avengers; and joined the writing team for the "No Surrender" storyline in Avengers, which brought the Hulk back from the dead. His subsequent titles include Valkyrie, Guardians of the Galaxy, Defenders, the event series Empyre and the critically revered smash hit Immortal Hulk. Ewing has cemented in his place in the Krakoan era of the X-Men titles comics with S.W.O.R.D. and X-Men- Red.

Marcio Takara has been drawing for companies like Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Boom! Studios and DC since 2006 on titles such as Marvel Adventures Super Heroes, Dynamo 5, The Incredibles, Incorruptible, Blue Beetle and Flash. Other projects include Earthward with writer Bryan Q. Miller, artwork for the game League of Legends and Smallville- Lantern for DC.