The fellas of the Stack interviewed writer Greg Pak at the New York Comic-Con about Hercules, the Hulk and Pak's upcoming "Skaar: Son of Hulk" series. Click here to check it out.
Greg Pak in Dallas on May 3 for Free Comic Book Day!
Heads up, Dallasites! Comic book writer and "Robot Stories" director Greg Pak will appear at the CAPE Free Comic Book Day event hosted by Zeus Comics from 10 am to 6 pm at Craddock Park on Lemmon Avenue in Dallas. Click here for the CAPE website and click here for a map.
Pak will be signing throughout the day and will hold raffles at the top of each hour for free comic books and "Robot Stories and More Screenplays" paperbacks.
IGN continues to rave about "Incredible Hercules," written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente and now with pencils by Rafa Sandoval. Here's an excerpt from the review of #116:
Incredible Hercules seems to be getting really formulaic. That formula being it's going to be really good. You know the tune by now: Herc is one of the most consistently enjoyable and well-done books on the stands today.
Andy Serwin gives "Warbound" #5 the nod at WizardUniverse.com:
The action comes fast and furious, as you’ve come to expect with the Hulk spinoff books, and Pak and Kirk don’t disappoint. There’s even a touching death scene that sets off a whole new status quo, as the Warbound lose one member, only to gain another. Personally, I’m hoping the Warbound don’t take too long a hiatus; I’d like to see them back in a Hulk book ASAP.
Marvel has released this insanely awesome cover for "Skaar: Son of Hulk" #2, written by Greg Pak. Ron Garney is the penciller of both the cover and the interior art.
"Skaar" #2 hits comic book stores in July -- tell your local retailer to pre-order a copy for you today!
From the Marvel solicitation for the first issue, hitting comic book stores June 4, 2008:
Born in fire. Raised by monsters. Destined to destroy. On an alien planet shattered by war, no one is stronger than Skaar, the savage Son of Hulk. But as a Fillian warlord, an Imperial princess, and a mysterious Earthman spread chaos through the wastelands, will Skaar save the puny survivors -- or smash them? Another epic fever dream from Greg Pak, writer of "Planet Hulk" and World War Hulk" -- featuring the return of legendary Hulk artist Ron Garney!
Whose terrible stride shakes the war-torn wastelands of Sakaar? Whose blind Shadow Priest calls for the blood of babes? Whose barbarian horde rides monsters through your nightmares? Behold and lament, my beautiful son, for the Axeman Cometh!
2008.04.18 - 04.20 - Greg Pak at the New York Comic-Con
"Warbound" #5, written by Greg Pak with pencils by Leonard Kirk, hits comic book stores on April 16. But Comic Book Resources has six lettered pages online now for your reading pleasure. Check 'em out -- and ask your local comic store to hold a copy for you today!
Kim Ima, one of the producers of Greg Pak's "Robot Stories" and the co-star of Pak's "Happy Hamptons Holiday Camp for Troubled Couples," is now selling cookies and pastries on the streets of New York City. No joke! Check out the clip below from "Eat Out ala Kelly" profiling Ima and her awesome Treats Truck -- then check out the Treats Truck website for the menu and schedule.
2008.05.03 - Greg Pak in Dallas for CAPE Free Comics Day event
Comic book writer Greg Pak will attend the CAPE Free Comic Book event organized by Zeus Comics in Dallas, Texas, on May 3, 2008. Full schedule and location to be announced soon -- visit the official website for the full scoop.
March 3 – The WORLD’S BIGGEST Free Comic Book Day Event has grown so huge, we had to move to Craddock Park a large public park in the heart of Dallas. Join us on Saturday May 3rd for CAPE! 4, the Comic and Pop-Culture Expo. CAPE! 4 is hosted by Zeus Comics, PvPOnline.com, and Popsyndicate.com. This elite team of comic experts joins forces once again to bring North Texas a bigger and better Comic and Pop-Culture Expo (CAPE!), than last year – it’s the biggest Free Comic Book Day event in the world.
This year’s list of NEW guest comic book artists and writers includes industry giants Mark Waid, Chynna Clugston, Robert Kirkman, Greg Pak, Jason Pearson, Greg Pak, Matt Sturges and Paul Benjamin. They are joined by returning headliners Gail Simone, David Mack, Mike Huddleston, Tony Bedard, Jim Mahfood, Scott Kurtz, Jamie S. Rich, James O’Barr, Marc Andreyko, Kody Chamberlain, Dave Crosland, Lea Hernandez, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Mercedes Lackey, Ben Dunn, Kristian Donaldson, Kris Straub, Larry Dixon and many more, CAPE! just keeps getting bigger and bigger! For a complete list of guests go to www.capeday.com.
The world famous CAPE! costume contest returns for its second year. Come dressed as your favorite comic book character and win fabulous prizes.
CAPE! 4 takes place at Craddock Park in Dallas, TX on Saturday, May 3rd, 2007 from 10am – 6pm coincides with the Free Comic Book Day events taking place all over the world. CAPE! festivities allow fans a chance to interact with top creators in the comic industry, get sketches, talk comics and pick up some fantastic free goodies including 7,000 free comics and much more!
The all day, indoor/outdoor, event promises to be unlike anything the Dallas area has seen before. “We’ll have plenty of free comics, movie posters, t-shirts, and prizes and folks will have the opportunity to hang with some of the finest people in the comic book industry,” Says Richard Neal, Zeus Comics and Toys owner. “Free comics and fun. I can’t think of a better way to spend the day.”
For more information on CAPE or if you are a comic professional who wants to attend please visit www.capeday.com or call Zeus comics at 214-219-TOYS.
Adam Chapman has posted a rave review for "Warbound" #4 at Comixtreme.com. Here's an excerpt:
This issue was flat-out fantastic. Pak is an excellent writer, and he clearly has genuine affection for these creations of his, the Warbound, as well as for the Leader himself.... It's an intense and emotional battle that Kirk and Pak weave, a testament to the brilliant storytelling that these two men can create when working together.
"Warbound" #4 was written by Greg Pak with pencils by Leonard Kirk and Rafa Sandoval. The book is on sale now in comic book stores everywhere. Tell your local store to hold a copy for you today -- and place and advance order "Warbound" #5!
J. Caleb Mozzocco has declared "Incredible Hercules" his "favorite Marvel comic" in Newsarama's Best Shots review column. Here's an excerpt from his review of "Incredible Hercules" #115:
If it were just big, action-packed, melodramatic, funny fun The Incredible Hercules would still be well worth a reader’s time, but co-writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente don’t just stop there. This concludes the opening story arc of the Herc-hijacked book, and it does an incisive, even touching job of defining the characters of Hercules and Amadeus Cho. That it happens to also be a blast to read is just a bonus. This has very quickly become my favorite Marvel comic.
The raves keep on coming for "Incredible Hercules" #115, written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with pencils by Khoi Pham. Here's the latest from PopCultureShock.com:
It’s great that Marvel was able to take the momentum Hercules gathered from Civil War and make it into one of their best ongoing series. The issue is filled with great humor, great character interactions, absolutely fantastic action (the list of badass things Ares has done grows longer) and a really nice moment where Hercules explains the true story of one of the old myths about him. I can’t say enough good things about this series.
Writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente give a behind-the-scenes analysis of the first six pages of "Incredible Hercules" at BrokenFrontier.com. Here's an excerpt from the discussion of Page 6:
GP: I know it’s a cheap gag, but God help me, I love having Amadeus pull the Bugs Bunny trick on Herc here. I tend to throw in a lot of these goofball moments into the scripts. Fred likes cutting about half of ‘em out, which is probably a good example of just why we’re so well matched on this book -- unhesitantly saving each other from each other’s own foibles! Heeey... kinda like Amadeus and Herc, huh?
FVL: I think I’m as smart as Amadeus, but I also drink as much as Herc, so I’m not sure which one I would be.
GP: All we say for sure is that if Fred and I weren’t co-writing this book, one of us would be a super-villain.
"World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound" #5, written by Greg Pak with pencils by Leonard Kirk, hits comic book stores on April 16. Here's the solicitation text:
Children of Gammaworld, remember their names! Korg the Kronan. Hiroim the Oldstrong. Elloe Kaifi. No-Name of the Brood. They survived the gladiator pits and battlefields of "Planet Hulk." They withstood the titanic clashes and soul-searing revelations of "World War Hulk." But today, under the deadly dome of Gammaworld, a hero falls -- and the Warbound will never be the same!
The trade paperback for "Planet Hulk" hits comic book stores on April 2, 2008. Written by Greg Pak with art by Carlo Pagulayan, Aaron Lopresti, and Gary Frank, "Planet Hulk" is the epic adventure that spawned "World War Hulk" and the upcoming "Skaar: Son of Hulk."
Writer Greg Pak and artist Ron Garney have been interviewed by WizardUniverse.com about their upcoming "Skaar: Son of Hulk" series. An excerpt from the Pak interview:
What is it about the world of Sakaar that has really dug itself into your brain? How different is the world now from the rather dire state we saw it in at the end of "Planet Hulk"?
PAK: What makes Sakaar such a rich milieu for storytelling right now is that the war against the Red King and the explosion that leveled Crown City have destroyed all central authority and social control. This is a shattered, war-torn world plagued by monsters and bandits in which the stakes are as high as they possibly can be. Every second of the day is a fight for life and death—and when the survival of some means certain death for others, every second becomes a test of what it means to be a hero in a world this brutal and lawless.
I know you haven’t done any pages yet, but do you have any feelings about what you’re most excited to draw in this story?
GARNEY: To be honest, I’m really most excited about the idea of the flavor of this character. Like I said, he’s a Conan-like character. On his planet, that’s their way. He’s more of a warrior-type, and it’ll be fun to remove ourselves from this planet and go to more fantasy land—add a Frazetta-type flavor to the book. I’m probably the most excited about that. It’s different.
And I hadn’t really done anything like that. I mean, I did Silver Surfer. And I wanted to do that on Silver Surfer, but when I’d first taken over that book, he’d been in outer space for so long with the Ron Lim era. But I wanted to do even more. I wanted to do sci-fi fantasy with that book and not so much comic book as fantasy illustration. I think I’ll be able to do that more with this book.
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Marvel has released this insanely awesome cover for "Skaar: Son of Hulk" #2, written by Greg Pak. Ron Garney is the penciller of both the cover and the interior art.