Mike Costa

So you're saying if I take this script and spread it across two issues, I can get two paychecks? That's not working hard, that's working smart.

Mike Costa is a comic book writer for IDW Publishing, and the main Transformers scribe from 2009 to December 2011.

He has stated that during his first year, he found the job "tough and not fun" and the immortal, robotic nature of the characters difficult to get a handle on: aside from the general oddness of the concept, he didn't see how they could have personalities like humans and felt they lacked the usual motivations of an action-adventure character. He also cited that "they don’t have women, they don’t have relationships that they value because they don’t have females that they can love; maybe brotherly love but how, they don’t have parents?”

In addition to Transformers, he has also written for G.I. Joe. He's mentioned that in the comic book world, G.I. Joe tends to get taken more seriously as a concept than Transformers.

Comic bibliography

IDW Publishing

Writer

• All Hail Megatron #13 ("Uneasy Lies the Head"), #16 ("The Man of Steel")
• The Transformers ongoing series
• Spotlight: Prowl
• The Transformers: Ironhide