New Frontier stories regularly appear in crossover miniseries and short story anthologies. The series has also expanded into the realm of comics; In WildStorm Comics published the first New Frontier comic and approached David about creating a second but lost the license before that came to fruition. In the new comics licenser, IDW Publishing , approached David about a new New Frontier comics project, resulting in the publication of a five-part miniseries.
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Excalibur 2 10 Renaissance. Excalibur 3 11 Restoration. Peter David Art by: Although David attributes the story's poor sales to this decision, such crossing over from Sales to Editorial is now common. Nonetheless, he was fired from Spectacular Spider-Man by Owsley due to editorial pressure by Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter, and David has commented that the resentment stirred by Owsley's purchase of his stories may have permanently damaged Owsley's career.
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Months later, after Shooter was replaced by Bob Harras, Harras offered David The Incredible Hulk , as it was a struggling title that no one else wanted to write. During his run on Hulk , David explored the recurring themes of the Hulk's multiple personality disorder, his periodic changes between the more rageful and less intelligent Green Hulk and the more streetwise, cerebral Gray Hulk, and of being a journeyman hero, which were inspired by Incredible Hulk October , in which writer Bill Mantlo and possibly, according to David, Barry Windsor-Smith had first established that Banner had suffered childhood abuse at the hands of his father.
These aspects of the character would later be used in the feature film adaptation by screenwriter Michael France and director Ang Lee. Comic Book Resources credits David with making the formerly poor-selling book "a must-read mega-hit".
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It was after he had been freelancing for a year, and into his run on Hulk , that David felt that his writing career had cemented. After putting out feelers at DC Comics, and being offered the job of writing a four-issue miniseries of The Phantom by editor Mike Gold, David quit his sales position to write full-time. David also took over Dreadstar during its First Comics run, with issue 41 March after Jim Starlin left the title, and remained on it until issue 64 March , the final issue of that run.
At DC Comics in , David wrote a seven-issue Aquaman miniseries, The Atlantis Chronicles , about the history of Aquaman's home of Atlantis, which David has referred to as among the written works of which he is most proud. He would later write a Aquaman miniseries, Aquaman: Time and Tide , which would lead to a relaunched monthly Aquaman series, the first 46 issues of which he would write from — His run on Aquaman gained notoriety, for in the book's second issue, Aquaman lost a hand, which was then replaced with a harpoon, a feature of the character that endured for the duration of David's run on the book.
He also wrote the Star Trek comic book for DC from —, when that company held the licensing rights to the property, though he has opined that novels are better suited to Star Trek , whose stories are not highly visual. David also enjoyed considerable runs on Supergirl and Young Justice , the latter eventually being cancelled so that DC could use that book's characters in a relaunched Teen Titans monthly. David's work for Dark Horse Comics has included the teen spy adventure, SpyBoy , which appeared in a series and a number of miniseries between and , and the miniseries The Scream.
He also wrote a miniseries, Heroes Reborn: The Return , for Marvel Comics. David and his second wife Kathleen also wrote the final English-language text for the first four volumes of the manga series Negima for Del Rey Manga. In , David began writing his newest creator-owned comic, Fallen Angel , for DC Comics, which he created in order to make use of plans he had devised for Supergirl after the "Many Happy Returns" storyline, but which were derailed by that series' cancellation.
That same year, he also wrote a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series for Dreamwave that tied into the animated television series broadcast that year. Dracula mini-series, both based on the character from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel television shows.
In , David briefly returned to Incredible Hulk , though he left after only 11 issues because of his workload. He also started a new series, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man , beginning with a twelve-part crossover storyline called "The Other", which, along with J. Michael Straczynski's run on Amazing Spider-Man , and Reginald Hudlin's run on Marvel Knights Spider-Man, depicted the webslinger as he discovered he was dying, lost an eye during a traumatic fight with Morlun, underwent a metamorphosis and emerged with new abilities and insights into his powers.
As tends to be the case when fundamental changes are introduced to long-standing classic comics characters, the storyline caused some controversy among readers for its introduction of retractable stingers in Spider-Man's arms, and the establishment of a "totem" from which his powers are derived.
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David's final issue of that title was David also wrote a MadroX miniseries that year, whose success led to a relaunch of a monthly X-Factor written by him. This was a revamped version of the title starring both Madrox and other members of the former X-Factor title that David had written in the early 90's, now working as investigators in a detective agency of that name. However, his decision to explicitly establish male characters Shatterstar and Rictor as sharing a homosexual attraction to one another a confirmation of clues that had been established in X-Force years earlier , drew criticism from Shatterstar's co-creator, Rob Liefeld, though Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada supported David's story.
On February 11, , David announced at the WonderCon convention in California in that he had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel Comics. Fallen Angel , Soulsearchers and Company and David's Spike miniseries were "grandfathered" into the contract, so as to not be affected by it. The first new project undertaken by David after entering into the contract, which he announced on April 5, , was writing the dialogue The Gunslinger Born , the comic book spin-off of Stephen King's The Dark Tower novels, which would be illustrated by Jae Lee.
His run, which won praise, ended with issue 38, when the series was cancelled. He also wrote a Sir Apropos of Nothing miniseries, based on the character from his novels, which was published by IDW Publishing. David's comics work includes Halo: Helljumper , a five-issue miniseries based on the Halo video game, which premiered in July, and a Alien Force manga book, Ben Folds Four , which will be published by from Del Rey in October His work includes "The Little Mermaid", one of the stories in Jim Valentino's Fractured Fables anthology, which was singled out for praise by Ain't It Cool News, and an adaptation of the film Tron , which will be released in November to tie in with the feature film sequel, Legacy.
On writing comics David stated in that he prefers to plot his comics stories in six-month arcs.
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He has stated that when he works on a particular title, he always does so with a particular person or group of people in mind to which he dedicates it, explaining that he wrote Supergirl for his daughters, Young Justice for a son he might one day have and Incredible Hulk for his first wife Myra, who urged him to first accept the job of writing that book.
David has further explained that the events of his own life are sometimes reflected in his work, as when, for example, following the breakup of his first marriage, the direction of The Incredible Hulk faltered, with the Hulk wandering the world aimlessly, hopelessly looking to be loved. David has stated that his favorite female character of his own creation is Lee, the protagonist of Fallen Angel , which he says is derived from the positive female fan reaction to that character.
He has specifically mentioned interest in writing a Tarzan vs. David had been working at a publisher that went out of business, and a former coworker from that publisher became his agent, through whom he sold his first novel, Knight Life , to Ace Books. Although the sale was made before he wrote any comic books, the novel was not published until eighteen months later.
Another early novel of his, Howling Mad , is about a wolf that turns into a human being after being bitten by a werewolf. Ace Books also hired David to write the Photon and Psi-Man novels, though they published them under the "house name" David Peters, over David's objections. David updated Knight Life years later when Penguin Putnam brought it back into print in , and made it a trilogy with the sequels One Knight Only and Fall of Knight , which were published in and , respectively.
He has also written five Babylon 5 novels, three of which were originals, and two of which were adaptations of the TV movies Thirdspace and In the Beginning. He also wrote an original Hulk novel, The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast , based on story ideas that he was not permitted to use in the comic book, and an adaptation of an unused Alien Nation television script, "Body and Soul". David's novel Tigerheart is a re-imagining of Peter Pan with a mix of new and old characters, told as a Victorian bedtime story, much like the classic tale. The second installment, The Highness of the Low , is scheduled to be published in September David began writing his weekly opinion column, "But I Digress David continued the column following CBG' s switch to a monthly magazine format in David's short story, "Colors Seen by Candlelight", appeared in Tales of Zorro , the first collection of original Zorro short fiction ever authorized by Zorro Productions, Inc.
Picard, was killed in the attack, his final actions securing the safety of the ship and crew. Following the destruction of the Borg cube , the ship was taken to dry dock for repair and refit. The vessel was originally assigned to Captain Elizabeth Shelby , but was given to Mackenzie Calhoun upon his return to active duty. Excalibur -A was a late model Galaxy design, described as a hot rod in terms of speed and armament at the expense of some of the earlier Galaxy starships' civilian arrangements.
Some new features built into this vessel included holographic communications and a primary hull saucer warp drive.
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When Shelby was promoted to Admiral , first officer Kat Mueller was given command and promoted to the rank of Captain.