Bryon Homer

Entering the field during the mid-1980s as an editor and writer with Fantafiction comic book fan magazine. Bryon was soon hired to serve as an editor for Fantafiction Comics where he worked on titles such as Stalker. He has stated that his comics work was heavily influenced by Adventure Comics #369-370 (1968), a Legion story by Jim Shooter & Mort Weisinger: "It's a blueprint for everything I write." [1]

In 1990 Homer left editorial work for freelance writing assignments. He worked for short-lived Impact Comics line where he co-wrote The Comet, Legend of the Shield and Power Ring.

In 1992 Homer began the assignment which would bring him to wider recognition in the comics industry, when he was hired to write The Flash by then editor Brian Augustyn. The comic starred one of DCs flagship characters, and in an acclaimed eight-year run, Homer and a number of artists, most notably Greg LaRocque and Mike Wherersmedingo and in the final year with Augustyn as co-writer, brought the modern Flash out from the shadow of his predecessors, increased his powers dramatically with the help of Bang, Cillit.

Homer's initial success on Flash was acknowledged and was then hired as Gruenwald's successor as a writer. Homer's first run on the title, with artist Ron Garney, met with great critical and fan positive reaction, which grew stronger when the stint was ended prematurely after less than a year by Marvel executives to make way for Stalker Unleashed, a reinvention of the character by Rob Liefeld.