J. Michael Straczynski is an award-winning writer for film, television and comics. A former journalist for The Los Angeles Times and Time Inc., he has worked on such series as The Twilight Zone and Murder She Wrote and created Jeremiah, Crusade and Babylon 5, for which he may be best known. He penned the screenplay for Clint Eastwood’s Changeling, for which he received a British Academy Award nomination, and Ninja Assassin for the Wachowskis. His work has earned him two Hugo Awards as well as the Saturn, the Eisner, the Inkpot and the Ray Bradbury Award, among many others. His comics work includes Rising Stars and Midnight Nation for Top Cow/Image, The Amazing Spider-Man, Supreme Power, and Thor for Marvel, and he now writes both Before Watchmen: Nite Owl and Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan DC Comics.