Peter J. Tomasi
Peter J. Tomasi Ghost Machine writer headshot photo

Peter J. Tomasi, recipient of the 2018 Inkpot Award for achievement in comics, is a New York Times best-selling author known not only for his writing on SupermanBatman and RobinSuper SonsGreen Lantern CorpsBatman-Detective Comics, and many more, but also as an award-winning group editor at DC Comics for 15 years where he ushered in new eras for BatmanJustice Society of AmericaGreen Lantern, and the best-seller, Kingdom Come

Tomasi is also the author of House of Penance, nominated for best graphic novel at 2018 Angouleme International Comic Festival, Light BrigadeThe Mighty, Blood Tree, and the critically acclaimed graphic novel The Bridge: The Building of the Brooklyn Bridge published by Abrams ComicArts. Tomasi also wrote the screenplay for the popular animated film “Death of Superman,” and his screenplay for “The Bridge” was on The Black List, as one of the best unproduced Hollywood scripts of that year.

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Feb 26, 2025
Rocketfellers #3
The Rocketfellers can’t wait to get home to the 25th century…except they can’t. They’re chased by bounty hunters, hidden in 2025, and befuddledly fitting into this might-as-well-be-ancient society. So this family does what it does best: Dad, Rae, and Rex go on a personal adventure, while Mom craves a return to the stars. And as for eldest son Richie? His mystery project could be their undoing.
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Feb 26, 2025
Hornsby & Halo #4
"GIVE IT BACK." That’s all Zach and Rose keep hearing from the recently dead townsfolk who, thanks to an unholy blizzard called down by a rogue angel, have clawed out of their graves looking for precious items stolen from them by Zach's parents! And these zombies aren't gonna stop until their thirst for revenge is slaked! Can it get any crazier?! Yes. Yes it can, especially when Zach and Rose are forced to reveal their true Celestial and Infernal identities to each other…
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Jan 29, 2025
Hornsby & Halo #3
A blizzard hits the town of Warwick…but it’s hardly a natural occurrence, as rogue agents of Heaven and Hell try to disrupt the tenuous peace between realms, using Rose Hornsby and Zack Halo as pawns. The storm’s “ethereal” qualities raise the dead from their graves to reclaim their personal valuables stolen by the Halo family before being buried. And Zach and Rose discover the hard way that “finders keepers” won’t deter angry zombies!
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Jan 22, 2025
Rocketfellers #3
Where are The Rocketfellers? Hiding out in the 21st century, that's where, as a relentless bounty hunter from the 25th century continues to track our time-traveling renegade family down by any means necessary! But just as the family starts to feel comfortable in their new surroundings, they attract attention from an unexpected threat closer to home…
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Dec 26, 2024
Hornsby & Halo #2
Dark forces conspire to break the peace between Heaven and Hell! As Zach Halo and Rose Hornsby try to reconcile with the astonishing beings they became the previous night, they get caught in a cosmic conspiracy to destroy the tenuous truce made between the angels and demons. Thirteen-year-olds shouldn’t be made to fight for something so existential…
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Nov 27, 2024
Hornsby & Halo #1
SERIES PREMIERE! It's Good vs. Evil from the minds of PETER J. TOMASI (Batman and Robin, Super Sons) and PETER SNEJBJERG (Starman, B.P.R.D.)! Keeping the cosmic peace isn’t easy. But the opposing leaders of Heaven and Hell broker a deal that trades Zachary Halo, an angel child, to a demon family, and Rose Hornsby, a demon child, to an angel family, and hope this truce will halt the winds of war. It’s Nature versus Nurture as the turbulence of adolescence comes crashing down on two teenagers who have no idea just who and what they truly are...yet.
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Nov 20, 2024
Rocketfellers #1
SERIES PREMIERE! A new cosmic time-travel adventure from the minds of PETER J. TOMASI (Batman and Robin, Super Sons) and FRANCIS MANAPUL (Flash, Clear)! In the picture-perfect 25th century, the Rocketfeller family, living a disconnected and emotionally distant existence, discover a terrible secret: in their hands is the fate of humanity. Hunted down, the Rocketfellers enlist in the Time Zone Protection Program and escape to present-day Earth. If they can’t find a way to trust each other in this strange "ancient" world of today, they and our future will perish!
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Jan 24, 2024
Ghost Machine #1 (One-Shot)
Written and illustrated by JASON FABOK, GARY FRANK, BRYAN HITCH, GEOFF JOHNS, LAMONT MAGEE, FRANCIS MANAPUL, BRAD MELTZER, PETER J. TOMASI, MAYTAL ZCHUT, and more! A GROUNDBREAKING NEW ERA FOR COMICS, CHARACTERS AND CREATORS LAUNCHES NOW! An all-new powerhouse, creative collective collides into comics with GHOST MACHINE’s 64-page special, introducing its all-new shared universe of strange, fun, exciting and action-packed characters: GEIGER! REDCOAT! ROOK! THE ROCKETFELLERS! AND MANY, MANY MORE! What ties Geiger, Redcoat, Widow X, and the other mysterious, historical heroes of The Unnamed together? Why is Rook the key to saving the war-torn world of Exodus? How will everyone’s soon-to-be-favorite family of the future adapt to a new life in the present? THE STORIES ALL START NOW! CREATORS YOU KNOW. CHARACTERS YOU’LL LOVE. WELCOME TO GHOST MACHINE.
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