Film and television Gage, with Ruth Fletcher Gage, adapted the
Arthur C. Clarke novel
Rendezvous With Rama for Morgan Freeman's Revelations Entertainment. They co-wrote the 2001 film
The Breed, starring Adrian Paul, Bai Ling and Bokeem Woodbine, for Sony/Screen Gems and Starz. He wrote and served as associate producer on the film
Teenage Caveman for HBO; independent filmmaker
Larry Clark directed and
Stan Winston produced. In 2010, the Gages wrote the film
Paradox, starring
Kevin Sorbo, for SyFy UK. The Gages co-wrote episodes of the TV shows
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and
Numbers.
SVU creator Dick Wolf cites one of their episodes from the
series' fourth season, "Mercy", as "a high water mark" of the show's 400-episode run, saying "I tell writers that if you're going to look at one episode after the pilot, it's that one." The episode was nominated for a
SHINE Award. In 2014 the Gages joined the writing staff of the first season of the Netflix/Marvel TV show
Daredevil which was nominated for three Emmy Awards and won the Saturn Award for Best New Media TV Series. They were on the writing staff of
Hawaii Five-0 for the show's ninth (2018-2019) season.
Comics Gage broke into the comic book industry in December 2004 with the DC Comics miniseries
Deadshot. One of his earliest Marvel Comics works was a
Union Jack mini-series with
Mike Perkins. For
Wildstorm Productions Gage wrote
The Authority: Prime with
Darick Robertson. His subsequent Wildstorm work included
Wildstorm: Armageddon,
Wildstorm: Revelations and
Wildcats: Worlds End which was part of a relaunch of a number of titles. . During Marvel's "
Civil War" storyline, he wrote the best-selling tie-in book
Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties Of War. He also wrote the miniseries
World War Hulk: X-Men whose first issue sold in excess of 85,000 copies. Gage wrote the tie-in book
Avengers: The Initiative, co-writing with
Dan Slott beginning with issue #8, and eventually becoming the sole writer for the series with #20. He continued on through the conclusion of the run with #35. Spinning out of that series' storylines was
Avengers Academy, which Gage launched with artist Mike McKone. That series introduced several new teen characters to the Marvel Universe and ran for forty issues. In March 2008 Gage wrote the four-issue miniseries
G.I. Joe: Cobra for
IDW Publishing. That same year he wrote the first seven issues of
The Man with No Name for
Dynamite Entertainment, which stars the iconic Western character portrayed by
Clint Eastwood. The storyline is set after the events of the sequel
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Later that year he wrote the creator-owned series
Absolution for
Avatar Press, which focuses on a superhero actions after he develops
post-traumatic stress disorder and thus resorts to murdering supervillains. In 2010 Gage wrote the original graphic novel
Area 10, a crime thriller about an emotionally disturbed New York police detective who, while on the case of a bizarre serial killer, begins to exhibit psychic abilities after his head is impaled by a screwdriver. In July 2012 Gage published the original graphic novel
Sunset, through
Top Cow/Minotaur Press, a
noir tale of an aged mob enforcer facing the demons of his violent past. As of 2012 Gage and his wife Ruth were working on the historical epic
The Lion Of Rora for
Oni Press. From 2011 to 2013 Gage and
Dan Slott co-wrote issues 661 - 662, 664 and 695 - 697 of
The Amazing Spider-Man. After that series ended with the death of Peter Parker, a new series,
Superior Spider-Man was launched in 2013. Gage co-wrote 10 sporadic issues with Dan Slott. He also wrote the "
Inhumanity" tie-in,
Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man. From 2013 to 2014, Gage co-wrote issues 14 - 23 of
Bloodshot and
H.A.R.D. Corps for
Valiant Entertainment. In 2014 Gage and Dan Slott co-wrote two of the stories in the anthologized first issue of the relaunched
Amazing Spider-Man, while their collaboration on the final arc of
Superior Spider-Man ranked at #3 on the
New York Times Paperback Graphic Books Best Seller List. In the same year, Gage and
Angel & Faith artist Rebekah Isaacs took over the
Buffy The Vampire Slayer title, beginning with Season 10. The first collection of that series charted at #10 on the
New York Times Best Seller List for Paperback Graphic Books, while the second collection charted at #8 and the third at #10. He also co-wrote 2014 crossover arc
Spider-Verse, and wrote the 2018 sequel
Spider-Geddon. In 2016, with his wife Ruth, Gage contributed to the Eisner Award-winning
Love Is Love
(comics) anthology to benefit victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting and their families. He also wrote two series following the 2019
Disney Pixar film
Incredibles 2.
The Incredibles 2: Crisis in Mid-Life! & Other Stories was published on March 5, 2019, by
Dark Horse Comics. Gage wrote the first two issues, while Landry Q. Walker wrote the other. The three stories happen after the film. Gage's two stories (
Crisis in Mid-Life! and
Bedtime Story) were illustrated by
Gurihiru and
J. Bone, respectively. The other series is
The Incredibles 2: Secret Identities, which is a story that also takes place after the
Incredibles movies by
Brad Bird. The series focuses on the character
Violet, and an edition with all three issues was released on October 1, 2019, again by Dark Horse Comics. Gage wrote it with Jean Claudio-Vinci as illustrator. A new series, focusing on the character
Dash, was partly released in February 2020, under the title '' 'Slow Burn' .''
Video games Gage scripted the 2011 console video game
Captain America: Super Soldier, which tied-into the release of the film
Captain America: The First Avenger, which Chris Evans voiced. Evans later said the game inspired a number of the action scenes on the second
Captain America movie. He also wrote scripts for the mobile games
Captain America: The Winter Soldier and
Iron Man 3: The Official Game. Gage also scripted the 2014 game
The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as a tie-in to the
film of the same name. Gage and Dan Slott are among the writers of the 2018 game ''
Marvel's Spider-Man'', developed by
Insomniac Games which sold 3.3 million copies in the first three days of release and earned the writers a WGA Award nomination as well as BAFTA and SXSW award nominations. On July 18, 2019, it became the best-selling superhero game ever. ==Awards and nominations==