Scott Lobdell wrote both Uncanny X-Men and X-Men during the 1990s. He also launched Generation X and Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix, and penned Alpha Flight and Fantastic Four. Elsewhere, he wrote Dark Horse’ s Buffy the Vampire Slayer with Fabian Nicieza, Wildstorm’ s Gen13, Top Cow’ s Darkness, and IDW’ s Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression and Galaxy Quest. Lobdell scripted Stan Lee’ s animated film Mosaic and has performed as a stand-up comedian.
Since his start on the New Universe’ s Psi-Force and backup stories in Classic X-Men, Fabian Nicieza has written most of Marvel’ s major super-teams — including Alpha Flight, the Avengers, the New Warriors, the Thunderbolts and the X-Men. Together with artist Rob Liefeld, Nicieza transformed New Mutants into the blockbuster X-Force. The writer also tackled solo heroes ranging from Cable and Deadpool (later combined in Cable & Deadpool) to Gambit and Nomad. He edited Marvel’ s Star imprint, contributed to multititle X-events like “ X-Cutioner’ s Song” and “ Phalanx Covenant, ” and wrote various “ pre-modern” limited series such as Adventures of Captain America and Citizen V and the V-Battalion. Elsewhere, he has written both JLA and Justice League Adventures, The 99, Turok, X-Files, and others.
An industry veteran, artist Brandon Peterson got his big break penciling Uncanny X-Men. Following a stint at Top Cow, Peterson returned to Marvel — illustrating such titles as Magneto Rex, Astonishing X-Men and X-Men. Since serving as CrossGen’ s lead artist, art director and vice president, Peterson’ s Marvel credits include such series as Ultimate X-Men, Ultimate Extinction and Strange.
