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. As part of the comics creator group Man of Action Studios, Casey is one of the creators of the animated series Ben 10.

Career

Starting his professional writing career at Marvel Comics, Casey wrote for several titles, including Cable, The Incredible Hulk and Uncanny X-Men. He is also the co-creator of the superhero America Chavez.
Casey wrote many titles for Wildstorm, like the highly experimental Automatic Kafka with artist Ashley Wood. Casey took over Wildcats and gave the series a new direction, moving it from the superhero genre to incorporate elements of corporate espionage. He wrote a Mister Majestic series with artist Ed McGuiness, after which they subsequently collaborated on Adventures of Superman, which Casey wrote for three years.
Casey wrote 2005's Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes limited series and its sequel for Marvel Comics. Since 2001 Casey has produced creator-owned work through Image Comics, including Gødland, Codeflesh, Nixon's Pals, Charlatan Ball, Doc Bizarre, M.D., Officer Downe. He also wrote a revamp of the original Youngblood miniseries by Rob Liefeld, called Maximum Youngblood. As well as discussing the ending of Gødland, Charlatan Ball and Nixon's Pals, he mentioned that Codeflesh would be returning.
Casey was featured in a 2006 documentary about the 1990s comic boom and bust called Adventures Into Digital Comics.
Casey is a member of the Man of Action collective of creators, who created the series Ben 10, airing on Cartoon Network. They also created the show Generator Rex, which also ran for two seasons on Cartoon Network. They are producers and story editors on the shows Ultimate Spider-Man and Marvel's Avengers Assemble airing on Disney XD. Casey also co-created the animated property Disco Destroyer with Scott Mosier and Jim Mahfood.
Dark Reign: Zodiac pits a new iteration of the old Avengers enemies against Norman Osborn's new status quo as Director of National Security, and Final Crisis: Aftermath: Dance follows the adventures of the Super Young Team. His brief return to DC also included a brief run on Superman/Batman.
His next work for Image Comics, with Mike Huddleston on art duties, was Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker. The critically acclaimed series ended with issue #8, which was published on August 15, 2012, ten months after issue #7, a delay that Casey stated was due to Huddleston's having overcommitted himself. Huddleston responded to Casey's public statement by stating that the delay was caused by his need to take over work in order to make sufficient money, as Butcher Baker was not lucrative enough for him to avoid doing so. Huddleston further explained that he apologized to Casey and to fans for the delay.
That same year, Casey debuted the six-issue Marvel miniseries Vengeance, which introduced a group of new villains to the Marvel Universe. The hardcover collection was released in December 2012.
His other work includes the creator-owned series Sex and The Bounce for Image Comics, as well as Catalyst Comix for Dark Horse Comics, reviving many of the old Comics Greatest World superheroes from the 1990s.
A film called Officer Downe, based on Casey's comic, was released in 2016.

Early work

  • Comic Effect #11
  • San Diego Comic Convention Program #22: "I Could Have Been a Teenage Comic Book Writer"
  • The Chosen #1–2
  • The Harvest King #1–3

    Marvel Comics

  • X-Men:
  • *Wolverine:
  • ** Wolverine: Days of Future Past #2–3 collected in X-Men: Days of Future Past
  • ** Wolverine: Black Rio collected in Wolverine: Blood Wedding
  • *X-Men vol. 2 #73: "The Elements within Us" collected in X-Men Gold: Homecoming
  • *Cable, Ryan Benjamin, Ed McGuinness and Stephen Platt collected as:
  • ** The Hellfire Hunt
  • ** The Nemesis Contract
  • *Alpha Flight vol. 2 :
  • ** "Microcosm"
  • ** Alpha Flight/Inhumans Annual '98
  • *Uncanny X-Men:
  • ** Uncanny X-Men/Fantastic Four Annual '98 collected in X-Men Blue: Reunion
  • ** X-Men: The Magneto War includes:
  • *** "A World Apart, Part One"
  • *** "A World Apart, Part Two"
  • ** X-Men: X-Corps collects:
  • *** "Playing God"
  • *** "Poptopia" and Ashley Wood
  • *** "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"
  • *** "Absolute Progeny"
  • *** "Supreme Confessions"
  • *** "Rocktopia"
  • *Juggernaut: The Eighth Day: "Eight is Enough" collected in Thor by Dan Jurgens and John Romita, Jr. Volume 3
  • *Children of the Atom #1–6 collected as X-Men: Children of the Atom
  • *X-Men: Life Lessons
  • Hulk:
  • *The Incredible Hulk #467, 468–474
  • *Hulk Smash Avengers #2: "The Filth and the Fury" collected in Hulk Smash Avengers
  • Thunderbolts #26: "Lockdown" collected in Hawkeye and the Thunderbolts Volume 1
  • Deathlok vol. 2 #1–11, Matthew Dow Smith and John Buscema collected as Deathlok: Rage Against the Machine
  • Iron Man:
  • *Iron Man Annual '99: "Power Tools" collected in Iron Man by Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen Omnibus
  • *Iron Man: The Inevitable #1–6 collected as Iron Man: The Inevitable
  • *Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin #1–6 collected as Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin
  • *Iron Man 2: Public Identity includes:
  • ** Iron Man 2: Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • ** Iron Man 2: Phil Coulson, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • ** Iron Man 2: Black Widow, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • ** Iron Man 2: Public Identity #1–3
  • Captain America Annual '99: "Full Court Press" collected in Captain America: Land of the Free
  • Heroes Reborn: Masters of Evil: "Battleship Downs" collected in Heroes Reborn: The Return
  • Avengers:
  • *Ultimate Collection: Avengers — Earth's Mightiest Heroes collects:
  • ** Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes #1–8 also collected as Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
  • ** Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes II #1–8 also collected as Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes II
  • *Avengers: The Origin #1–5 collected as Avengers: The Origin
  • Fantastic Four: First Family #1–6 collected as Fantastic Four: First Family
  • The Last Defenders #1–6 collected as The Last Defenders
  • Dark Reign: Zodiac #1–3 collected in Dark Reign: The Underside
  • Spider-Man:
  • *The Amazing Spider-Man Family #8: "Walking the Talk"
  • *Web of Spider-Man vol. 2 #7: "Fashion Spread" collected in The Amazing Spider-Man: New York Stories
  • *The Amazing Spider-Man #700.3–700.4 collected in The Amazing Spider-Man: Peter Parker, the One and Only
  • Age of Heroes #4: "Welcome Back, Zodiac" collected in Age of Heroes
  • Vengeance #1–6 collected as ''Vengeance''

    Image Comics

  • Hellcop #1–4
  • Double Image #1–5: "Codeflesh"
  • * After the series cancellation, Codeflesh was continued in Double Take #6–8
  • * All eight installments were collected by AiT/Planet Lar as Codeflesh
  • * Reprinted, along with a new short story, as Codeflesh: The Definitive Edition
  • Four Letter Worlds: "Funk"
  • Gødland collected as:
  • *Gødland: Celestial Edition Volume 1
  • ** Includes the "Early Christmas" short story from Image Holiday Special 2005
  • *Gødland: Celestial Edition Volume 2
  • *Gødland: Celestial Edition Volume 3
  • Pilot Season: Velocity collected in Pilot Season 2007
  • * A four-issue limited series continuing the story from the one-shot was announced for 2008, with Casey joined by new artist ChrisCross.
  • * The Casey/ChrisCross team reportedly completed the entire first issue before departing the series due to "creative differences".
  • * The series was eventually released in 2010 with script by Ron Marz and art by Kenneth Rocafort.
  • Youngblood:
  • *Youngblood vol. 4 collected as:
  • ** Focus Tested
  • ** Voted Off the Island
  • *Youngblood Volume 1
  • ** Reprints of the first five issues of Youngblood with new dialogue by Casey.
  • The Next Issue Project: Fantastic Comics #24: "Flip Falcon in the Fourth Dimension"
  • Krash Bastards
  • Nixon's Pals
  • * Reprinted in color and with bonus material as Nixon's Pals
  • Charlatan Ball #1–6 collected as Charlatan Ball
  • Officer Downe: "Tough Shit"
  • * Reprinted as Officer Downe: Bigger, Better, Bastard Edition
  • * Reprinted with the film adaptation-related bonus material as Officer Downe
  • Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker #1–8 collected as Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker
  • Ziggy Marley's Marijuanaman
  • Doc Bizarre, M.D.
  • Haunt and Kyle Strahm collected as:
  • *Volume 4
  • *Volume 5
  • ** The series ceased publication with issue #28, which had last two pages written and drawn by Todd McFarlane.
  • ** McFarlane was also listed as the writer of all subsequent issues, even though the Casey/Fox run has been solicited up to issue #31.
  • The Bounce #1–12 collected as The Bounce: The Complete Edition
  • Sex, Chris Peterson, Dan McDaid, Luke Parker and Ian McEwan collected as:
  • *The Summer of Hard
  • *Supercool
  • *Broken Toys
  • *Daisy Chains
  • *Reflexology
  • * After issue #34, the series switched to the graphic novel format:
  • ** World Hunger
  • Valhalla Mad #1–4 collected as Valhalla Mad
  • Annual
  • * "Modern Romance"
  • * "The Winternational"
  • * "Odin's Mighty Return"
  • * "Slowpoke the Porcupine"
  • * "Gangsta Toads"
  • * "Swap Meat" and "Colonel Kane and Abel"
  • New Lieutenants of Metal #1–4 collected as New Lieutenants of Metal
  • MCMLXXV #1–3 collected as MCMLXXV
  • Jesusfreak
  • ''All-America Comix''