Duane Capizzi is an American writer and television producer. He is best known for his extensive work on animated series and movies for DC Comics. He was the co-showrunner of the animated series, The Batman and writer of the first DC Universe animated feature, Superman: Doomsday (based on The Death of Superman saga, and directed by Bruce Timm). Other animated series producing/writing credits include Jackie Chan Adventures, "The Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot," "Men In Black: The Animated Series," and series development on the CG animated Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles for Sony TV Animation. He also wrote and story-edited for several 'Disney Afternoon' TV series including Darkwing Duck, Aladdin, "TaleSpin, and "Bonkers." He began his career in animation writing scripts for "Robotech II: The Sentinels" for Harmony Gold. The series was never produced, but led to writing and story-editing on the animated "Alf" spinoff/prequel he is currently working on the newest Transformers cgi series for Hasbro Studios, the Emmy-winning Transformers: Prime.