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FJ DeSanto Editor & Author

Mike Avila is an Emmy Award-winning TV producer and author who has written a number of books examining film, television and comics, including Wolverine: Creating Marvel’s Legendary Mutant, The Art and Making of Aquaman, and The Man in the High Castle: Creating the Alt World. Mike chronicles the world of pop culture for outlets such as IGN and SYFY Wire. He also produced the documentary Todd McFarlane: Like Hell I Won’t for SYFY as well as the five-part docuseries So Much Damage: The History of Image Comics.


F.J. DeSanto is the showrunner of the Annie Award-nominated original anime series Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy for Netflix, Hasbro, and Rooster Teeth. This is his second animated Transformers series, the first being Transformers: Prime Wars Trilogy, which he cowrote and executive produced.