I’ve talked about how Spider-Man 2099 was THE comic for me when I was growing up.
Well, the writer of that comic is a guy named Peter David. He’s one of those people that within the world of comics is first ballot hall of fame. Outside that world, he is largely unknown.
I can’t even begin to list his great accomplishments, but the biggest is perhaps single-handedly reviving The Hulk. Hulk has become a garbage tier book and nobody wanted to write it. He took the helm and made it incredible (pun intended) for TWELVE years straight. If not for Peter, it’s not unlikely that The Hulk would be some relic of the past instead of perpetually relevant.
Just look at how long this dude’s Wikipedia page is.
As is typically the case in the world of Marvel/DC the actual creators get the short end of the stick. They are doing work for hire. If they create some famous characters, they don’t see financial benefits from merch, movies, tv, etc. The benefits are not great. And in their old age they don’t have much to fall back on. Happened to Jack Kirby, and still happens now.
They’ve got a new Spider-Verse movie coming out with my boy Spider-Man 2099 featuring in it heavily, and what is Peter David, the creator, going to see from that? Not much!
As you can imagine, at the only moderately old age of 66 he’s not doing too well, and his family has to resort to some gofundme biz because Disney certainly isn’t going to help him out.
Really does not sound good.
