He started out his career in comics at Valiant Comics, where he wrote and edited a variety of titles, especially later runs of Magnus Robot Fighter, Rai and Psi-Lords. After some freelance writing work, he worked as an editor at DC Comics before signing an exclusive contract with CrossGen. He wrote for many of their titles and was writing the company's big Crisis Crossover, Negation War, when the company filed for bankruptcy. After years of writing for Marvel Comics and then DC, he started working for the video game company Volition as a writer, leading to him contributing to Saints Row IV and Agents of Mayhem. He then joined Treyarch and currently works for them as a Senior Writer, having worked in some creative capacity on the later games in the Call of Duty franchise.
Selected comics Bedard has written for
CrossGen
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
- Mark of Charon
- Mystic — issues #18-43
- Negation — co-wrote issues #1-2 with Mark Waid, wrote the rest himself
- Negation Prequel — co-written with Waid
- Negation: Lawbringer #1
- Negation War — both issues that were made
- Route 666
DC Comics
- Blue Beetle (2011)
- Convergence tie-ins:
- Aquaman
- Green Lantern/Parallax
- Speed Force
- Countdown to Final Crisis — part of the writing roster
- DC Universe Online: Legends — tie-in comic to DC Universe Online; co-written with Marv Wolfman
- DC Universe Vs Masters Of The Universe — co-written with Keith Giffen
- Great Ten — the 2009 miniseries
- Green Lantern Corps (2006) — issues #48-62
- Green Lantern: New Guardians — issues #0-20
- R.E.B.E.L.S
- Supergirl (2005) — issues #20-22
- Supergirl (2011) — issues #27-35
- Red Daughter of Krypton
- Supergirl: Future's End
- Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes (2006) — issues #20-22, #29, #31-36
Marvel Comics
- Exiles — issues #46-89 of the original 2000s book
- Marvel Adventures: Avengers — issues #5-8
- Spider-Man: Breakout
Valiant Comics
- Magnus Robot Fighter — issues #32, #35-46, #49-54 of the 1994 book
- Rai (the original 1990s books)
- Rai and the Future Force — issues #18, #20-23
- Rai — issues #24-30, #33
- Psi-Lords — all 10 issues of the 1994 book
Others
- Retro Rocket — published through Image Comics
- Shi — issues #1-2, 7-8
Video games Bedard has contributed to
- Agents of Mayhem — additional writing
- Call of Duty:
- Call of Duty: Black Ops III
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — co-wrote the Ancient Evil, Alpha Omega and Dead of the Night zombie mode story DLCs
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War
- Call of Duty: Vanguard
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
- Saints Row IV
Other works Bedard has contributed to
- Turok: Son of Stone (2008) — animated Direct-to-Video film; wrote the screenplay
- Gotham Stories (2016) — motion comic web series; wrote the script
