J. Michael Straczynski

Joseph Michael Straczynski strəˈzɪnski born July 17 1954 is an American filmmaker and comic book writer He is the founder of Synthetic Worlds Ltd and Studio JMS and is known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 19931998 and its spinoff Crusade 1999 as well as the series Jeremiah 20022004 and Sense8 20152018 He is the executor of the estate of Harlan Ellison Straczynski wrote the psychological drama film Changeling 2008 and was a cowriter on the martial arts thriller Ninja Assassin 2009 he was one of the key writers for and had a cameo in Marvels Thor 2011 as well as the horror film Underworld Awakening 2012 and the apocalyptic horror film World War Z 2013 From 2001 to 2007 Straczynski wrote Marvel Comics The Amazing SpiderMan followed by runs on Thor and Fantastic Four He is the author of the Superman Earth One trilogy of graphic novels and he has written Superman Wonder Woman and Before Watchmen for DC Comics Straczynski is the creator and writer of several original comic book series such as Rising Stars Midnight Nation Dream Police and Ten Grand through Joes Comics A prolific writer across a variety of media and a former journalist Straczynski is the author of the autobiography Becoming Superman 2019 for HarperVoyager the novel Together We Will Go 2021 for Simon Schuster and Becoming a Writer Staying a Writer 2021 for Benbella Books In 2020 he was named Head of the Creative Council for the comics publishing company Artists Writers and Artisans Straczynski is a longtime participant in Usenet and other early computer networks interacting with fans through various online forums including GEnie CompuServe and America Online since 1984 He is credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with fans on the Internet and to allow viewer viewpoints to influence the look and feel of his show see Babylon 5s use of the Internet Two prominent areas where he had a presence were GEnie and the newsgroup recartssftvbabylon5moderated Description above from the Wikipedia article J Michael Straczynski licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia