Edward Gross is an author and journalist, currently Executive Editor of Empire Magazine Online and co-author of the bestselling The Fifty-Year Mission, the definitive oral history of Star Trek, from St. Martin's Press.

Mark Waid, Alabama native and current Los Angeles resident, has written stories for every major comic book publisher, and his seminal graphic novel, Kingdom Come, for DC Comics, is one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time..

For BOOM! Studios, he has written bestselling graphic novels Potter's Field, Incorruptible and the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated Irredeemable. Peter Krause is an American comic book artist.

He is best known for his work on various DC Comics titles, most notably the Superman-related titles and The Power of Shazam! with Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family. Krause, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, currently works as a freelance illustrator in Minnesota.