Nunzio DeFilippis is an American writer of comic books and television. He writes with his wife, Christina Weir, whom he met while they were both students at

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. The two have written for two seasons on HBO's '' Arli$$'', and have sold story ideas to the Disney Channel's '' Kim Possible''. In comics, they have written several graphic novels and miniseries for independent publisher

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, including ''

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, Three Strikes, Maria's Wedding, The Tomb, Once In A Blue Moon'' the Amy Devlin Mysteries, Frenemy Of The State (written with

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), and Bad Medicine. Their work at Oni led to work at

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, relaunching the teen mutant book ''

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''. This book was renamed '' New X-Men: Academy X''. Their run on these books spanned three years and created almost two dozen new super-powered mutant characters for Marvel's

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franchise, including

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, Hellion,

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, Tag,

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, Mercury, Anole, and Wither. They have also written for

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, with stories appearing in ''

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, Adventures of Superman'' and ''

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'' and Dark Horse with "Dragon Age: Knight Errant." The duo also work in the expanding field of Japanese manga, providing English adaptations for the Del Rey titles ''Guru-Guru Pon-Chan, Sugar Sugar Rune'' and ''Kagetora''. They also write original English language manga for

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, writing one of the company's launch titles, ''

Amazing Agent Luna ''Amazing Agent Luna'' is an original English-language manga series written by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir (also authors of Destiny's Hand), with art by Shiei. It is published by Seven Seas Entertainment. The first volume of ''Amazi ...

'' and the pirate manga, '' Destiny's Hand''. DeFilippis also wrote, without his wife, an issue of

' '' Detective Comics''. He taught comic writing at UCLA Extension before teaching screenwriting and comic book writing at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Film Academy, where he is now Chair of the Screenwriting Department and Dean of Faculty.

Selected works

* ''Skinwalker'' #1-4 (art by Brian Hurtt) (Oni Press, May - September 2002) * ''Three Strikes'' #1-5 (art by Brian Hurtt) (Oni Press, April - October 2003) * ''Maria's Wedding'' graphic novel (art by Jose Garibaldi) (Oni Press, July 2003) * ''

'' vol. 2 #1-13 (Marvel Comics, July 2003 - June 2004) * ''The Tomb'' graphic novel (art by Christopher Mitten) (Oni Press, July 2004) * '' New X-Men: Academy X'' vol. 2 #1-19 (Marvel Comics (July 2004 - December 2005) * ''

'' vol. 1-11 (Seven Seas Entertainment, 2005–2015) * '' New X-Men: Hellions'' #1-4 (Marvel Comics, July–October 2005) * '' Adventures of Superman'' #644-648 (with Greg Rucka) (November 2005 - March 2006) * ''Past Lies: An Amy Devlin Mystery'' graphic novel (Oni Press, March 2006) * '' Destiny's Hand'' vol. 1-3 (art by Mel Calingo) (Seven Seas Entertainment, 2006–2009) * ''Bakugan Battle Brawlers, The Evo Tournament'' (Del Rey, 2009) * ''Batman Confidential'' #26-28 (DC Comics, April - June 2009) * ''All Saints' Day: An Amy Devlin Mystery'' graphic novel (Oni Press, October 2010) * ''Frenemy Of The State'' (Oni Press, 2010) * '' Amazing Agent Jennifer'' vol. 1-2 (Seven Seas Entertainment, 2011–2012) * '' Dracula Everlasting'' vol. 1-2 (Seven Seas Entertainment, 2011–2012) * '' The Avalon Chronicles, Volume 1: Once In A Blue Moon'' (Oni Press, 2012) * ''Play Ball'' (Oni Press, 2012) * '' Bad Medicine'' (Oni Press, debuted

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) * ''The Avalon Chronicles, Volume 2: Once In A Blue Moon'' (Oni Press, 2013) * ''

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: Knight Errant'' (Dark Horse, 2017) * ''Dragon Age: Deception'' (Dark Horse, 2018) *''Dragon Age: Blue Wraith'' (Dark Horse, 2020) *''Dragon Age: Dark Fortress'' (Dark Horse, 2021)

External links

DeFilippis and Weir have a tumblr page

DeFilippis and Weir also have a Facebook page
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