2025 Celebrity Death Thread

I read his Hulk, Spider-Man 2099, Supergirl, second run of X-Factor (when Madrox became the leader), Captain Marvel (Genis vel), She-Hulk (after Dan Slott), Young Justice, Aquaman. I read two of his novels (the wolf who turned to a guy and modern Arthur). I never read his Star Trek comic or novel stuff because I wasn't into Trek though.

He was hilarious. His characters made lots of puns and witty remarks. He also gave them naughty sides, which was an eye opener.

I remember his sorta feud with Erik Larsen of Savage Dragon. He had Hulk wear a fin on his head (Liam Sharpe art, after the Pantheon arc). Erik Larsen named a villain Cesspool as Peter Davidson and had Dragon donate his healing blood to save a dying hiv guy to mirror Hulk's issue where Hulk didn't donate his gamma blood to another hiv guy (Dragon's case had the guy turn green and get a fin head but he died right after cuz his body couldn't handle it). I think they settled their differences when Erik Larsen helped raise money for Peter David.

Had lots of great memories reading the comics he wrote. Loved his jokes and wit. He was an amazing writer and did incredible work.

Man, this one hurts. When I really got into comics after high school in the early 90's and had the money for them, his Hulk run was one of my favorites and turned me into a lifelong fan and I've read pretty much everything he's written. I was even a fan before I knew who he was as I had the Photon novels he wrote as David Peters from the late 80's. I knew he'd been having some serious health issues for a while but didn't realize how bad it had gotten. Truly a unique talent and he'll be sorely missed. RIP.

Paladin said:

'Duck Dynasty' Star Phil Robertson Dead at 79

"Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson is dead ... according to his daughter-in-law.

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Okay, sure, but…
Back to Peter David!
(Sorry, but my tolerance for “paying respects” for many conservatives has all but evaporated in the past ten years. As much as A&E tried to hide it, Robertson was cut from the same “good old boy conservative” line that got us to where we are today in politics)


Re: Peter David
This is a sad one for me. I’ve stumbled across SO MUCH of his work over the years, it’s almost ridiculous. I know his comic stuff well (like his hallmark Hulk run as well as Spider-Man 2099), but I’m not sure many realize how DEEP his reach was into genre fiction. From picking up the torch on Babylon 5, to dozens of licensed work (Alien Nation, Battlestar Galactica) and PILES of Star Trek. The man wrote the last two entries in the B-movie franchise Trancers, and several others for Full Moon Pictures. He provided the script for the Video game Shadow Complex and wrote the Spider-Man game Edge of Time (and contributed to Epic Mickey side projects).
Sad to see him go, but damn, if he didn’t end up with pretty solid nerd “dream career”.

Aw man. I loved so much of Peter's work growing up.

I think I'll use the occasion as an excuse to hit up the local used book shops and see if I can't track down the rest of the Sir Apropos of Nothing series.

In Middle School and High School in the Late 80s/90s Peter David was my favorite writer easy, and kinda my hero.

He's why I collected the Incredible Hulk (I own every issue from the original #1 through the end of Peter's run.) It is the book that got me into buying all the Marvel Comics. I had a friend who was big into collecting Spider-man and so I decided I would collect a super hero too. I tried Iron Man because it seemed robot-y (I already collected the TF comic) but rich mullet playboy Tony did nothing for me. Then it crossed over with Peter's Hulk and I was sold on my new favorite thing. An issue or so later Acts of Vengeance started and by the time it was done I was buying 80% of the comics marvel put out for the next decade, with Hulk as my absolute favorite.

A Marvel kid for years, Peter did Young Justice and Aquaman and so I bought DC Comics too and my collecting grew in breadth.

He wrote the BEST Star Trek novels which were my thing for years in adolescence.

I wanted to write like him so much and read everything of his I could find.

I had a chance to say hello to him once at a Con as an adult and just ended up circling his table and didn't go over... because what can you actually say to someone you worshipped in Middle School and not have it be really weird?

I find it impossible for me to imagine there won't ever be another Peter David Hulk story. RiP.


-ZacWilliam, not many people know he apparently wrote a Bumblebee centric fill-in issue for the Marvel Transformers comic that the art got lost for and ended up being replaced by the Bumblebee focus issue we got early in the run.

Has anyone else read anything in Peter David's King Arthur series?

Paladin said:

'Duck Dynasty' Star Phil Robertson Dead at 79

"Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson is dead ... according to his daughter-in-law.

www.tmz.com

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Peter David's written some of the best comic runs of all time. Young Justice. Spider-Man 2099. Aquaman. X-Factor (twice!). Supergirl and it's kinda-sorta continuation as Fallen Angel. Genis-Vell Captain Marvel (again, twice!).

And, of course, we wouldn't have the Hulk as we know him today without Peter David's run. He defined the character for the modern age.

He will be missed. But, he will be remembered.

Yeah, I've read the King Arthur series. Finding my own copy of Knight Life (and Howling Mad, his reverse werewolf novel) was one of my used bookstore "holy grails" for a long time in the 90s and early 00s.

Peter David was the first celebrity I interacted with online, on Usenet in the summer of 1992. And the interaction was him smacking me down for being an asshole, quite deserved on my part. We later got along much better, although we didn't interact as much after he left Usenet.

I'm glad his years-long medical torment is over, at least.

---Dave

Phil Robertson, famous for Duck Commander and being the dad on Duck Dynasty, dies at age 79.

Paladin said:

'Duck Dynasty' Star Phil Robertson Dead at 79

"Duck Dynasty" patriarch Phil Robertson is dead ... according to his daughter-in-law.

www.tmz.com

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I didn't see that before I posted my link. But to be fair, the AP news just posted it an hour ago.