Joe Casey

Joe Casey is an American comic book writer. He has worked on titles such as Wildcats 3.0, Uncanny X-Men, The Intimates, Adventures of Superman, and G.I. Joe: America's Elite, among others.

Biography

During Casey's run at Marvel Comics people started to recognize his talent as a writer, especially in regard to his work on the book Cable. He took the story in a different direction than had been previously established. Cable went from a multi-gun toting tough guy to a more spiritualized leader for the Askani.

Casey wrote many titles for Wildstorm comics, often to high critical acclaim, like the highly experimental Automatic Kafka with artist Ashley Wood. Casey took over Wildcats and gave the series new direction turning from standard superheroics to corporate espionage. His Mister Majestic series with artist Ed McGuiness impressed DC Comics enough to offer them a run on Adventures of Superman.

Casey wrote 2005's Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes limited series and its sequel for Marvel Comics, the series G.I. Joe: America's Elite for Devil's Due Publishing and has been writing Gødland for Image Comics. He also wrote a revamp of the original Youngblood miniseries by Rob Liefeld, called Maximum Youngblood. Recently, as well, as discussing the ending of Gødland and the new Charlatan Ball and Nixon's Pals,^[1] he mentioned that Codeflesh^[2] would be returning.^[3]

Casey is a part of the Man of Action collective of creators (with Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau, Steven T. Seagle), who created the series Ben 10, currently airing on Cartoon Network.

Dark Reign: Zodiac pits a new iteration of the old Avengers enemies against Norman Osborn's new status quo as Director of National Security,^[4][5][6] and Final Crisis: Aftermath: Dance follows the adventures of the Super Young Team.^[7][8]

He returned to the early Avengers in Avengers: The Origin (2010).

His current on-going title for IMAGE Comics, with Mike Huddleston on art duties, is called: BUTCHER BAKER: THE RIGHTEOUS MAKER. ^[9]

His latest limited series for Marvel, Vengeance, features young new heroes and villains. The series also served to continue the stories of characters that Casey had introduced, such as the new Zodiac, Jack Truman, Stacy-X, Sugar Kane and more.

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

Titles published by Marvel include:

• X-Men:
  • Wolverine: Days of Future Past #2-3 (with John Francis Moore and Joe Bennett, 1998)
  • Cable #51-70 (with José Ladrönn, German Garcia, Ryan Benjamin, Stephen Platt and Andy Smith, 1998-1999)
  • X-Men v2:
    • "The Elements within Us" (with Joe Kelly and Jeff Johnson, in #73, 1998)
    • "A World Apart" (with Alan Davis, in #88, 1999)
  • Uncanny X-Men:
    • "Thresholds" (with Leandro Fernandez and Paul Pelletier, in Uncanny X-Men/Fantastic Four Annual '98, 1998)
    • "Mansions in Heaven" (with Alan Davis and Adam Kubert, in #368, 1999)
    • Poptopia (tpb, 144 pages, 2002, ISBN 0-7851-0801-7) collects:
      • "Playing God" (with Ian Churchill, in #394, 2001)
      • "Poptopia" (with Ian Churchill, Sean Phillips, Mel Rubi and Ashley Wood, in #395-398, 2001)
      • "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" (with Tom Derenick and Tom Raney, in #399, 2001)
    • "Absolute Progeny" (with Ashley Wood, in Annual '01, 2001)
    • "Supreme Confessions" (with Eddie Campbell, Cully Hamner, Matthew Dow Smith, Javier Pulido, Sean Phillips and Ashley Wood, in #400, 2002)
    • "Golden: A Silent Adventure" (with Ron Garney, in #401, 2002)
    • "Rocktopia" (with Ron Garney, Aaron Lopresti and Sean Phillips, in #402-406, 2002)
    • "Gläubiger, Heiler, Gefallener" (with Sean Philips, in #407, 2002)
    • "Identity Crisis" (with Sean Philips, in #408, 2002)
    • "Rocktopia, Part 8 of 5" (with Sean Philips, in #409, 2002)
  • Wolverine: Black Rio (with Oscar Jimenez, graphic novel, tpb, 48 pages, 1998, ISBN 0-7851-0674-X)
  • Wolverine/Cable: Guts and Glory (with Stephen Platt, one-shot, 1999)
  • Juggernaut: The Eight Day: "Eight is Enough" (with Terry Shoemaker, one-shot, 1999) collected in Thor by Dan Jurgens & John Romita, Jr. vol.3 (tpb, 200 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4385-8)
  • X-Men: Children of the Atom #1-6 (with Steve Rude, Michael Ryan, Paul Smith and Esad Ribic, 1999-2000) collected as X-Men: Children of the Atom (tpb, 160 pages, 2001, ISBN 0-7851-0805-X)
  • The X-Men in "Life Lessons" (with John Paul Leon, one-shot, 2003)
• Alpha Flight:
  • "Microcosm" (with Steven T. Seagle and Ariel Olivetti, in v2 #11, 1998)
  • "Tides" (with Steven T. Seagle, Mark Bernardo and Tom Raney, in Alpha Flight/Inhumans Annual '98, 1998)
• The Incredible Hulk #467-474 (with Javier Pulido and Ed McGuinness, 1998-1999)
• Heroes Reborn: Masters of Evil: "Battleship Downs" (with Charlie Adlard, one-shot, 1999)
• Thunderbolts #26: "Lockdown" (with Leonardo Manco, Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley, 1999)
• Deathlok #1-11 (with Leonardo Manco, Eric Canete, Matthew Dow Smith and John Buscema, 1999-2000)
• Captain America Annual '99: "Full Court Press" (with Pablo Raimondi, 1999)
• Iron Man:
  • Iron Man Annual '99: "Power Tools" (with Kurt Busiek and Terry Shoemaker, 1999)
  • Iron Man: The Inevitable #1-6 (with Frazer Irving, 2005-2006) collected as Iron Man: The Inevitable (tpb, 144 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-2084-X)
  • Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin #1-6 (with Eric Canete, 2007-2008) collected as Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin (tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2622-8)
  • Iron Man 2: Public Identity #1-3 (with Ron Lim, 2010) collected as Iron Man 2: Public Identity (tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4858-2)
• Avengers:
  • Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes #1-8 (with Scott Kolins, 2005) collected as Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (hc, 192 pages, 2005, ISBN 0-7851-1438-6)
  • Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes II #1-8 (with William Rosado, 2006-2007) collected as Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes II (hc, 192 pages, 2007, ISBN 0-7851-1851-9)
  • Avengers: The Origin #1-5 (with Phil Noto, 2010) collected as Avengers: The Origin (hc, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 0-7851-4356-4; tpb, 2012, ISBN 0-7851-4400-5)
• Fantastic Four: First Family #1-6 (with Chris Weston, 2006) collected as Fantastic Four: First Family (tpb, 144 pages, 2006, ISBN 0-7851-1703-2)
• The Last Defenders #1-6 (with Keith Giffen and Jim Muniz, 2008) collected as The Last Defenders (tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 0-7851-2507-8)
• Dark Reign: Zodiac #1-3 (with Nathan Fox, 2009) collected in Dark Reign: The Underside (tpb, 256 pages, 2009, ISBN 0-7851-4160-X)
• Spider-Man:
  • Amazing Spider-Man Family #8: "Walking the Talk" (with Chad Hardin, 2009)
  • Web of Spider-Man #7: "Fashion Spread" (with Jim Mahfood, 2009)
• Age of Heroes #4: "Welcome Back, Zodiac" (with Nathan Fox, 2010)
• Vengeance #1-6 (with Nick Dragotta, 2011)

Image Comics

Titles published by Image include:

• Hellcop #1-4 (with Gilbert Monsanto, 1998-1999)
• Codeflesh (hc, 128 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-6070-6077-9; tpb, 144 pages, AiT/Planet Lar, 2003, ISBN 1-9320-5115-5) collects:
  • Double Image #1-5 (with Charlie Adlard, 2001)
  • Double Take #6-8 (with Charlie Adlard, Funk-O-Tron, 2001)
• Four Letter Worlds: "Funk" (with Mike Huddleston, graphic novel, tpb, 144 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-5824-0439-9)
• Gødland (with Tom Scioli, 2005-...) collected as:
  • Hello, Cosmic! (collects #1-6, tpb, 144 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-5824-0581-6)
  • Another Sunny Delight (collects #7-12, tpb, 156 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-5824-0632-4)
  • Proto-Plastic Party (collects #13-18, tpb, 144 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-5824-0736-3)
  • Amplified Now (collects #19-24, tpb, 152 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-5824-0912-9)
  • Far Beyond the Bang (collects #25-30, tpb, 152 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6070-6256-9)
• Image Holiday Special '05: "Early Christmas" (with Tom Scioli, one-shot, 2005)
• Youngblood #1-8 (with Derec Donovan, 2008-2009)
• Fantastic Comics #24: "Flip Falcon in the Fourth Dimension" (with Bill Sienkiewicz, 2008)
• Nixon's Pals (with Chris Burnham, graphic novel, tpb, 120 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-5824-0937-4)
• Krash Bastards, (with Axel 13, graphic novel, tpb, 142 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-5824-0905-6)
• Charlatan Ball #1-6 (with Andy Suriano, 2008-2009) collected as Charlatan Ball: Season One (tpb, 160 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-6070-6084-1)
• Officer Downe: "Tough Shit" (with Chris Burnham, one-shot, 2010)
• Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker #1-ongoing (with Mike Huddleston, 2011-...)
• Haunt #19-ongoing (with Nathan Fox, 2011-...)

DC Comics

Titles published by DC Comics include:

• The Flash:
  • The Flash 80-Page Giant #2: "Successionary Modern" (with Ron Lim, 1999)
  • The Flash #151: "Territorealis" (with Duncan Rouleau, 1999)
• Superman:
  • Superman 80-Page Giant #1: "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen in Who Do You Trust?" (with Michael Avon Oeming, 1999)
  • Adventures of Superman:
    • "Pillar of Earth" (with J.M. DeMatteis and Mike S. Miller, in #587-588, 2001)
    • Return to Krypton (tpb, 208 pages, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0194-6) includes:
      • "Second Honeymoon" (with Duncan Rouleau, in #589, 2001)
      • "Culture Shock" (with Duncan Rouleau, in #606, 2002)
    • "Don't Cry for Me, Bialya" (with Derec Aucoin, in #590, 2001)
    • "Strange Behavior" (with Mike Wieringo, in #592, 2001)
    • Our Worlds at War (tpb, 512 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1129-1) includes:
      • "Suicide Mission" (with Mike Wieringo, in #593, 2001)
      • "The Doomsday Protocol" (with Mike Wieringo, in #594, 2001)
      • "Escalation" (with Mike Wieringo, in #595, 2001)
    • "Shipbuilding" (with Mike Wieringo, in #596, 2001)
    • "Joker: Last Laugh — Rubber Crutch" (with Derec Aucoin, in #597, 2001)
    • "Cult of Persuasion (Prologue)" (with Mike Wieringo, in #598, 2001)
    • "Borba Za Zhivuchest" (with Derec Aucoin, in #599, 2002)
    • "A Lex" (with Mike Wieringo, in #600, 2002)
    • "Cult of Persuasion" (with Pete Woods, in #601-602, 2002)
    • "Mirror, Mirror" (with Carlos Meglia, in #603-605, 2002)
    • Ending Battle (tpb, 192 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-4012-2259-5) includes:
      • "Dawn's Early Light" (with Derec Aucoin, in #608, 2002)
      • "Rush Hour" (with Derec Aucoin, in #609, 2002)
    • "Small Perceptions" (with Derec Aucoin, in #610, 2003)
    • "Authorized" (with Derec Aucoin, in #612, 2003)
    • "Valentine's Day Sale" (with Derec Aucoin, in #613, 2003)
    • "In the Grip of the Hollow Men!" (with Derec Aucoin, in #614-616, 2003)
    • "Rather, Rinse, Repeat" (with Charlie Adlard, in #617-618, 2003)
    • "Prestidigitation Nation" (with Derec Aucoin, in #619-620, 2003)
    • "The Mack Minute" (with Derec Aucoin, in #621-622, 2003-2004)
    • "Bittersweet" (with Derec Aucoin, in #623, 2004)
• Batman: Tenses #1-2 (with Cully Hamner, 2003)
• Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #1-6 (with ChrisCross, 2009) collected as Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance (tpb, 144 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2605-1)
• Superman/Batman:
  • Big Noise (tpb, 128 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2914-X) collects:
    • "Three Months Away" (with Scott Kolins, in #64, 2009)
    • "Rumble Face" (with Ardian Syaf, in #68, 2010)
    • "Benediction Redux" (with Ardian Syaf, in #69, 2010)
    • "Righteous Destroyer" (with Ardian Syaf and Jay Fabok, in #70, 2010)
    • "The Final Solution" (with Joshua Williamson and Jay Fabok, in #71, 2010)

Wildstorm

Titles published by Wildstorm include:

• Gen¹³:
  • "Chang... Percival Chang" (with Kevin Maguire, in Gen¹³ #42, 1999)
  • "Still Waters Run Deep" (with Jason Johnson, in Wild Times: Gen¹³, one-shot, 1999)
• Mr. Majestic:
  • Mr. Majestic (tpb, 176 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-5638-9659-1) collects:
    • "Cosmology" (with Brian Holguin and Ed McGuinness, in #1, 1999)
    • "Repeating History" (with Brian Holguin and Ed McGuinness, in #2, 1999)
    • "Excessive Violence: Viewer Discretion Advised" (with Brian Holguin and Ed McGuinness, in #3, 1999)
    • "Being & Nothingness" (with Brian Holguin and Ed McGuinness, in #4, 1999)
    • "Jailbreak!" (with Brian Holguin and Ed McGuinness, in #5, 2000)
    • "Why-2K" (with Brian Holguin and Ed McGuinness, in #6, 2000)
  • "Universal Law" (with Brian Holguin and Eric Canete, in #7-9, 2000)
• Wildcats:
  • Wildcats v2 (with Scott Lobdell, Bryan Hitch, Travis Charest, Scott Benefiel, Carlos Meglia, Sean Phillips and Steve Dillon, 1999-2001) collected as:
    • Street Smart (includes #5-6, hc, 160 pages, 2000, ISBN 1-5638-9685-0; tpb, 2002, ISBN 1-5638-9658-3)
    • Vicious Circles (collects #7-13, tpb, 144 pages, 2001, ISBN 1-5638-9761-X)
    • Serial Boxes (collects #14-19, tpb, 144 pages, 2001, ISBN 1-5638-9766-0)
    • Battery Park (collects #20-28, tpb, 224 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-4012-0035-4)
  • Wildcats: Ladytron (with Eric Canete and Jason Johnson, one-shot, 2000)
  • Wildcats Annual '00: "Condition Dead" (with Lee Bermejo, 2000)
  • Wildcats v3.0 (with Dustin Nguyen, Sean Phillips, Francisco Ruiz Velasco, Pasqual Ferry and Duncan Rouleau, 2002-2004) collected as:
    • Year One (collects #1-12, tpb, 288 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-4012-2856-9)
    • Year Two (collects #13-24, tpb, 288 pages, 2011, ISBN 1-4012-3050-4)
• Coup D'Etat #3: "Henhouse Confidential" (with Alejandro Garza, 2004) collected in Coup D'Etat (tpb, 112 pages, 2004, ISBN 1-4012-0570-4)
• The Authority Annual '00: "The Breaks, One of One" (with Cully Hamner, 2000)
• Automatic Kafka #1-9 (with Ashley Wood, 2002-2003)
• The Intimates #1-12 (with Jim Lee, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Scott Iwahashi, Carlos D'Anda and Alejandro Garza, 2005)

Other publishers

Titles published by various American publishers include:

• Dark Horse:
  • 9-11 vol.1: "Uncertain Process" (with Sean Phillips, graphic novel, tpb, 196 pages, 2002, ISBN 1-5638-9881-0)
  • KISS (with Mel Rubi, 2002-2003) collected as:
    • Rediscovery (collects #1-3, tpb, 80 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-5697-1879-2)
    • Return of the Phantom (collects #4-6, tpb, 80 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-5697-1892-X)
  • Reveal: "Autopilot" (with Sean Phillips, one-shot, 2002)
  • Hellboy: Weird Tales #2: "Flight Risk" (with Steve Parkhouse, 2003) collected in Hellboy: Weird Tales vol.1 (tpb, 128 pages, 2003, ISBN 1-5697-1622-6)
  • Star Wars Tales #17: "Phantom Menaces" (with Francisco Paronzini, 2003) collected in Star Wars Tales vol.5 (tpb, 248 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-5930-7286-4)
  • The Milkman Murders #1-4 (with Steve Parkhouse, 2004) collected as The Milkman Murders (tpb, 104 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-5930-7080-2)
• Battle Pope #11-13: "Immigrant Song" (with Jason Latour, Funk-O-Tron, 2002)
• Active Images:
  • Hip Flask: Unnatural Selection (with Richard Starkings and José Ladrönn, one-shot, 2002)
  • Hip Flask: Elephantmen (with Richard Starkings and José Ladrönn, one-shot, 2003)
• Devil's Due Publishing:
  • Infantry #1-3 (with Clément Sauvé, 2004-2005)
  • G.I. Joe: America's Elite #0-18 (with Stefano Caselli, Sunder Raj, Juan Barranco, Nelson Blake II, Joshua Medors and Pat Quinn, 2005-2006) collected as:
    • The Newest War (includes #0-5, tpb, 160 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-9327-9648-7)
    • The Ties That Bind (collects #6-12, tpb, 192 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-9327-9655-X)
    • In Sheep's Clothing (collects #13-18, tpb, 176 pages, 2007, ISBN 1-9327-9679-7)
  • Zen Intergalactic Ninja #0: "The Almighty Unexpected" (with Lee Ferguson, one-shot, 2008)
• Tom Strong #33: "The Journey Within" (with Ben Oliver, America's Best Comics, 2005) collected in Tom Strong, Book Six (hc, 160 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-4012-1108-9; tpb, 2008, ISBN 1-4012-1109-7)
• AiT/Planet Lar:
  • Full Moon Fever (with Caleb Gerard and Damian Couceiro, graphic novel, tpb, 88 pages, 2005, ISBN 1-9320-5135-X)
  • Rock Bottom (with Charlie Adlard, graphic novel, tpb, 112 pages, 2006, ISBN 1-9320-5145-7)
• Boom! Studios:
  • The Black Plague (with Julia Bax, one-shot, 2006)
  • Pirate Tales: "The Walk" (with Jean-Jacques Dzialowski, one-shot, 2006)
  • What Were They Thinking?!: Monster Mash-Up: "Barry’s Secret Shame!" (with Steve Ditko, one-shot, 2006) collected in What Were They Thinking?! (tpb, 128 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-9345-0607-9)
• Velocity: Pilot Season (with Kevin Maguire, one-shot, Top Cow, 2007) collected in Pilot Season 2007 (tpb, 144 pages, 2008, ISBN 1-5824-0900-5)
• Dynamite:
  • The Death-Defying 'Devil #1-4 (with Edgar Salazar, 2008-2009) collected as The Death-Defying 'Devil (tpb, 104 pages, 2009, ISBN 1-6069-0078-1)
  • Project Superpowers: Meet the Bad Guys #1-4 (with Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, Mike Lilly, Jonathan Ang Lau, Carlos Paul and Jack Herbert and Doug Klauba, 2009) collected as Project Superpowers: Meet the Bad Guys (tpb, 112 pages, 2010, ISBN 1-6069-0104-4)
• Flash Gordon 75th Anniversary: "Freedom Flight (Little Wing)" (with Omaha Perez, graphic novel, hc, 80 pages, Ardden, 2010, ISBN 0-9561-2592-1)

Notes

References

External links

• Joe Casey official web site
• Comics, Drugs & Cornflakes - An Extensive Interview @ PopImage
• The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
• Comics Reporter: Tom Spurgeon: Interviews with Joe Casey: 2003 (48 000 words!), 2005, 2007
• Interview with Joe Casey about Youngblood on the Comic Geek Speak podcast