Evan Narcisse is a journalist and critic who writes about video games, comic books, movies and TV, often focusing on the intersection of blackness and pop culture. He is a senior staff writer at io9, having previously written for The Atlantic, Time Magazine and Kotaku. He’s taught a course on video game journalism at New York University and appeared as an expert guest on CNN and NPR. He wrote the Rise of the Black Panther limited series for Marvel Comics. A native New Yorker, he now lives in Austin, Texas.

Spanish artist Natacha Bustos drew the story “Going Nowhere,” written by Brandon Montclare, for DC/Vertigo’s Strange Sport Stories. Bustos made her Marvel Comics debut on Spider Woman before re-teaming with Montclare and co-writer Amy Reeder on Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, winner of a Glyph Award for Best Female Character in 2016.

Paco Medina has illustrated a range of Marvel Comics — including New X-Men: Academy X, Captain Marvel, Thor, Venom, Marvel Team-Up, New Mutants and New Warriors, as well as relaunches of Deadpool and X-Men. Firmly established as a Marvel mainstay, Medina has enjoyed lengthy runs on Ultimate Comics X-Men, Nova and Legendary Star-Lord, as well as a major role in the Avengers storyline “No Surrender.”

Up-and-coming Brazilian artist Ibraim Roberson has worked on Avengers/X-Men: Utopia and New Mutants for Marvel. He has also illustrated author Max Brooks’ The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks.