Christina Weir

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Christina Weir is a writer of comic books and television. She writes with her husband, Nunzio DeFilippis, whom she met while they were both students at Vassar College. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's Arli$$, and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's Kim Possible. In comics, they have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher Oni Press, including Skinwalker, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, The Tomb, Once In A Blue Moon and the upcoming Past Lies. Their work at Oni led to work at Marvel Comics, relaunching the most recent version of the teen mutant book New Mutants. This book was renamed New X-Men: Academy X. Their run on these books spanned 3 years and created almost 2 dozen new super-powered mutant characters for Marvel's X-Men franchise, including Surge, Hellion, Wind Dancer, Prodigy, Wallflower, Elixir, Tag, Rockslide, Mercury, Anole, Indra, Kidogo, Loa, Network, Specter, Dryad, Quill, Match, Trance, D.J., Pixie, Preview, and Wither. They have also written for DC Comics, with stories appearing in Checkmate, Wonder Woman, Adventures of Superman and a recent Secret Files. The duo also work in the expanding field of Japanese manga, providing English adaptations for the Del Rey titles Guru-Guru Pon-Chan, Sugar Sugar Rune and Kagetora. They also write original English language manga for Seven Seas Entertainment, writing one of the company's launch titles, Amazing Agent Luna and the upcoming pirate manga, Destiny's Hand.