Mike Costa is an American comic book and television writer. His first published work was 2008's The Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor with artist Fiona Staples for WildStorm. He also wrote Resistance, a comic book series based on the Resistance video games. Costa has written Transformers for IDW. Costa is currently writing IDW Publishing’s G.I. Joe: Cobra and Blackhawks for DC Comics.His work on the GI Joe franchise was critically acclaimed and lauded by Brian K. Vaughan as an example of a licensed comic equal in quality to mainstream or creator-owned works.He began writing for the FOX TV show Lucifer in its first season, and became a producer after it moved to Netflix during the fourth season.