Joe Casey
Joe Casey is an American comic book writer whose name sits on Wildcats 3.0, Uncanny X-Men, The Intimates, Adventures of Superman and G.I. Joe: America's Elite. The recurring instinct across that list is to take a corporate superhero property and run it through a genre it was never built for: Wildcats 3.0 turned a superhero team into a company with a product line and quarterly problems, which is a far stranger idea than it sounds and reads better twenty years on than most of what surrounded it.
He is also a member of Man of Action Studios, the creator group behind Ben 10, and that is where the screen credits come from. Everything listed here as television is a group credit, which is why this page and Joe Kelly's page carry the same eight cartoons: the two Ben 10 sequel series, Ben 10: Omniverse, Generator Rex, Marvel's Avengers, Sonic Prime and Bakugan. Read them as a studio's output rather than as one writer's episodes.
The books here are the personal end of the work: Superman/Batman, written inside the biggest franchise machine in American comics, and Sex, a creator-owned series with a deliberately unsearchable one-word title and a premise about what a retired superhero does with the rest of his life.
TV (8)
Books (2)
Where to start with Joe Casey
Give Ben 10 a few episodes before anything else here. It remains the sharpest execution of the idea, a kid with a device that turns him into ten separate action figures, structured so that every episode brings a new toy and a new problem.
Ben 10: Alien Force is the interesting follow-up, because it ages the character and the tone deliberately rather than repeating the formula, and Generator Rex is the Man of Action show that pushes hardest on body horror inside a kids' slot. Sonic Prime is the best-looking thing on the list and Marvel's Avengers the most conventional. For his own writing rather than the studio's, go to the books: Sex is the one with a real point of view, and Superman/Batman is him working at the centre of the mainstream.