Mike Baron

Mike Baron is a comics legend turned novelist. With illustrator Steve Rude he co-created Nexus, the groundbreaking science-fiction series that earned him two Eisner Awards and an Inkpot Award and has been published in five languages. He went on to become the first writer on Marvel's ongoing Punisher series -- a seminal, multi-year run of more than sixty issues -- and relaunched DC's The Flash for the Wally West era, in addition to writing Batman and Star Wars and creating the Badger, Florida Man, and many other properties. Baron brings that same velocity to prose. His multi-volume Bad Road Rising series follows Josh Pratt, a reformed motorcycle hoodlum who found God in jail, got out, and became a private investigator -- stories that are bleak, brutal, harrowing, and often very funny. He is also the author of the standalone horror novels Helmet Head, Whack Job, and Skorpio, with short fiction in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Blood Lite anthologies. Meanwhile Nexus continues to reach new readers in deluxe hardcover omnibus editions. Baron lives in Colorado.