James Tynion IV started in the comics business assisting Scott Snyder in writing backup stories for Snyder's groundbreaking Batman series. Tynion soon began writing Talon, a series that spun out of the hugely popular "Batman: The Court of Owls" storyline. He has also written Constantine: The Hellblazer and Red Hood and The Outlaws and is currently at the helm of Batman:Detective Comics.