Mike Costa

He still prefers writing humans, despite having interacted with our fandom. Man has an indomitable spirit.

Mike Costa is a comic book writer for IDW Publishing, and the main Transformers scribe from November 2009 to December 2011. Costa followed Shane McCarthy as the predominant Transformers writer, and his work preceded two ongoing titles by John Barber and James Roberts. His work focused on the Transformers' relationship with humanity, via a "decompressed" style of storytelling.

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?"

Putting out a total of thirty five issues across his two year run, he ranks behind only Simon Furman and Bob Budiansky in terms of number of Transformers comics written.

In addition to Transformers, he has also written for G.I. Joe.

Comic bibliography

IDW Publishing

Writer

• All Hail Megatron #13 ("Uneasy Lies the Head"), #16 ("The Man of Steel")
• The Transformers ongoing series #1-21, 24-31
• Spotlight: Prowl
• The Transformers: Ironhide