Sean Kelley McKeever (born 1972) is an American comic book writer and video game writer. Born in Appleton, Wisconsin he grew up in Eagle River. He is mostly known for his creator-owned series The Waiting Place and Outpost Zero, Spider-Man Loves Mary-Jane and Sentinel for Marvel Comics and his run on Teen Titans for DC Comics. Among the video games he worked on are BioWare's ' and FoxNext Games' Storyscape: The X-Files.
Career
After dropping out of college, Sean McKeever ran a 250-foot comic store inside his parents' hardware and sporting goods store. Being inspired by comic books like Strangers in Paradise, Stray Bullets and Hate as well as TV series like Seinfeld and ER, he created his self-published comic book series The Waiting Place. After three issues, it was picked up and republished by indie comic publisher Slave Labor Graphics, who published two volumes with 18 issues in total from 1997 to 2002.
Since the end of his creator-owned teen drama series, McKeever has written several series for Marvel Comics, including The Incredible Hulk, Sentinel, Mary Jane, Inhumans and Gravity.
In 2005, he won an Eisner Award for Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition.
He has written for the monthly comic books Gravity, Marvel Adventures Spider-Man, Sentinel and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, all for Marvel Comics, and on January 9, 2007, DC Comics announced that McKeever had signed an exclusive contract with the publisher. He was a part of the writing team working on DC's weekly series Countdown, and took over for Gail Simone as the writer of Birds of Prey after issue #112, however, his last issue was #117 due to time constraints with deadlines. Sean also took up writing duties on Teen Titans with the double sized August issue #50 and also wrote the Terror Titans limited series that spun off from this. His run on Teen Titans has ended with issue #71, although he has continued with a Ravager back-up story starting in #72.
It was announced at Wizard World Philadelphia 2009 that McKeever, no longer under exclusive contract to DC, would write the limited series ' for Marvel Comics. This led into Young Allies, a new series and team formed after the Heroic Age line-wide reboot, all with artist David Baldeon.
In 2009, McKeever wrote a new story for The Waiting Place illustrated by Mike Norton. The story was printed in The Waiting Place: The Definitive Edition from IDW Publishing.
In 2011, with Marvel cancelling several titles and placing a moratorium on new series, and DC launching The New 52, McKeever found himself suddenly out of comic book work. He applied for a game writing position at BioWare and after being accepted, he moved to Austin, TX, to work full-time on the MMORPG '. After his time at BioWare, he wrote for other video games, including a The X-Files narrative mobile game, published by FoxNext Games.
He returned to comic book writing with his creator-owned series Outpost Zero (Skybound/Image Comics) in 2018. From 2022 to 2023 he wrote story arcs for Marvel's digital comic series Love Unlimited and Avengers Unlimited. In 2023, he contributed a story to Blood Hunters #3 for Marvel. In 2024, McKeever worked as narrative director on a mobile game from Scopely.
Bibliography
Comics
- Counter (24-hour comic) (also artist) (2004)
- Looking at the Front Door (2002)
- The Meredith Club (2004)
- - The Gathering Storm (digital motion comic) (2020)
- Birds of Prey #113âÂÂ117 (2007âÂÂ2008)
- Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Society #1 (2007)
- Countdown to Final Crisis #47, 42, 39, 35, 31, 27, 18, 4, 3 & 2 (2007âÂÂ2008)
- Teen Titans #50âÂÂ71, #72âÂÂ80 (Ravager co-feature), Annual 2009 #1 (2007âÂÂ2010)
- Terror Titans #1âÂÂ6 (limited series) (2008âÂÂ2009)
- Titans #11âÂÂ13 (2009)
- G.I. Joe: Frontline #9âÂÂ10 (2003)
- Lloyd Kaufman Presents: The Toxic Avenger and Other Tromatic Tales #1 (OGN anthology) (2007)
- Outpost Zero #1âÂÂ14 (2018âÂÂ2019)
- The Waiting Place #1âÂÂ6 (1997)
- The Waiting Place vol. 2 #1âÂÂ12 (1999âÂÂ2002)
Collected editions
- Birds of Prey: Metropolis or Dust (Softcover) ()
- Countdown to Final Crisis vol. 1 (Softcover) (); vol. 2 (Softcover) (); vol. 3 (Softcover) (); vol. 4 (Softcover) ()
- Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer (Softcover) ()
- Teen Titans vol. 8: Titans of Tomorrow (Softcover) ()
- Teen Titans vol. 9: On the Clock (Softcover) ()
- Teen Titans vol. 10: Changing of the Guard (Softcover) ()
- Teen Titans vol. 11: Deathtrap (Softcover) ()
- Terror Titans (Softcover) ()
- Titans vol. 2: Lockdown (Softcover) ()
- Elektra: The Official Movie Adaptation (Softcover) ()
- Gravity: Big-City Super Hero (Digest) ()
- Inhumans vol 1: Culture Shock (Digest) ()
- Marvel Age Fantastic Four vol 1: All For One (Digest) ()
- Marvel Adventures Spider-Man vol 1 (Hardcover) ()
- Marvel Adventures Spider-Man vol 2: Power Struggle (Digest) ()
- Marvel Adventures Spider-Man vol 3: Doom With a View (Digest) ()
- Mary Jane vol 1: Circle of Friends (Digest) ()
- Mary Jane vol 2: Homecoming (Digest) ()
- Mega Morphs (Digest) ()
- Mini Marvels: Secret Invasion (Digest) ()
- Mystique vol. 3: Unnatural (Softcover) ()
- Mystique vol. 4: Quiet (Softcover) ()
- Sensational Spider-Man: Back in Black (Hardcover) (); (Softcover) ()
- Sentinel vol 1: Salvage (Digest) ()
- Sentinel vol 2: No Hero (Digest) ()
- Sentinel vol 3: Past Imperfect (Digest) ()
- Spider-Man Family vol. 1: Back in Black (Digest) ()
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 1 (Hardcover) ()
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 2 (Hardcover) ()
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 1: Super Crush (Digest) ()
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 2: The New Girl (Digest) ()
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 3: My Secret Life (Digest) ()
- Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane vol 4: Still Friends (Digest) ()
- Spider-Man: Amazing Friends (Digest) ()
- Ultimate X-Men vol. 8 (Hardcover) ()
- Ultimate X-Men vol. 16: Cable (Softcover) ()
- X-Men Origins (Hardcover) ()
- Young Inhumans (Softcover) ()
- The Waiting Place Book One (Softcover) ()
- The Waiting Place Book Two (Softcover) ()
- The Waiting Place Book Three (Softcover) ()
Comic strips
- Crankshaft 5/15/2006âÂÂ5/20/2006 (uncredited writer)
- Funky Winkerbean 4/10/2006âÂÂ4/15/2006; 4/17/2006âÂÂ4/22/2006; 5/22/2006âÂÂ5/27/2006; 5/29/2006âÂÂ6/3/2006; 6/19/2006âÂÂ6/24/2006; plus an additional 10 weeks, Monday-Saturday (uncredited writer)
Trading Cards
- Avengers: Kree-Skrull War (main story: 90 cards, side stories: 99 cards) (2011)
Filmography
Television
Gameography
BioWare
- ' (2013)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Starfighter (2014)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Galactic Strongholds (2014)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Shadow of Revan (2014)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Fallen Empire (2015)
FoxNext Games
- Storyscape: The X-Files - Season 1 (2019)
Characters created
Marvel
Notes
References
External links