Christos Gage is a New York Times bestselling writer of movies, television, comics, graphic novels, and video games. He often collaborates with his wife, Ruth Fletcher Gage. Gage has written hundreds of comic books, working with nearly every publisher in the industry. For Marvel, he co-created the fan-favorite Avengers Academy , writing the entire forty-issue run, and has also written such titles as Superior Spider-Man , Amazing Spider-Man , X-Men Legacy , Avengers: The Initiative , Iron Man , World War Hulk: X-Men , X-Men/Spider-Man , Thunderbolts , and many more. He has also written for DC ( Justice League Beyond ), IDW ( G.I. Joe: Cobra ), Dynamite ( Red Sonja , The Man With No Name ), Avatar ( Absolution , Crossed ), Valiant ( Bloodshot & H.A.R.D. Corps ), and Wildstorm ( Stormwatch PHD , Wildcats ).