Antony J. L. Bedard is an American writer and editor who has worked in the comic book industry since 1992, and in the video game industry since 2012. His best known video game works include several installments in the Call of Duty franchise, such as Black Ops 4, Black Ops Cold War, Vanguard, and Modern Warfare III. As a writer, he is known for the co-creation of Negation and his writing for Route 666 for CrossGen Comics, as well as his run on Marvel Comics X-Men spin-off Exiles, and multiple series for DC Comics including Birds of Prey, Green Lantern: New Guardians, Supergirl, and a trilogy of San Diego Comic-Con exclusive comics involving Colonel Sanders. He also wrote the screenplay to the 2008 animated feature Turok: Son of Stone.

The Exiles are a group of fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics commonly associated with The X-Men. They feature in three series, Exiles, New Exiles, and Exiles vol. 2. The Exiles consists of characters from different universes, or realities, which have been removed from time and space in order to correct problems in various alternate worlds and divergent timelines in the Marvel Multiverse.