John Barber is IDW's Editor-In-Chief. A former editor at Marvel, his comics writing credits include: Transformers, Optimus Prime, Spidey, Doctor Strange, Back to the Future , and many other projects across many other media. He lives in San Diego with his family. Mairghread Scott grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, and was raised on a healthy diet of Shakespeare, Monty Python, and three iterations of Star Trek. After college, Mairghread worked her way up as an assistant while writing plays and honing her talents. Then she landed a job as a Script Coordinator for Transformers Prime and G.I. Joe Renegades .

Mairghread got her first opportunity to join a writer's room there and it led to her first professional script, "Stronger, Faster." Since then, she has written for many different TV shows and comic books as a freelance writer and story consultant. She has had the joy of helping to create the first fan-built transformer, Windblade, and bring her to life in the IDW comics series of the same name as well as writing Windblade's introduction to the new animated series Transformers Robots in Disguise .