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" story line. He has also written Batman: Detective Comics, Constantine: The Hellblazer,and Red Hood and the Outlaws and is currently at the helm of Batman.