Tom Brevoort passed this along to me. I’ve never run a fan letter here, but this is pretty cool in a geeky sort of way:
To the Crew,
Month after month I see people praising every book Brian Bendis and Grant Morrison put out…but people are missing out on the best read of the month, bar none. Mixing pulse-pounding, universe-ending, balls-to-the-walls action with hilarious, fall-over-laughing, satire on the comics world as a whole, and still being able to tell the story of a guy in love with his wife.
Amazing. Spectacular. Uncanny.
Peter David deserves an award for almost every storyline so far (and probably those coming up), and ChrissCross (one of the most underrated pencillers in the industry) should have an award named after him. I have been able to get about 20 to 25 people to pick up the book, and try to convince everyone I see to pick up the (in my humble, geeky opinion) best book of the month.
Keep up the wonderful work, and until Rick Jones combines atoms with Captain Ultra, Make Mine MARVEL.
Oh what the hëll, even then.
Alan Korsunsky
Comedy Centrals’ “Beat the Geeks” Comic Book Geek
Now I feel kinda bad feeling so satisfied when the comic pros wiped the floor with the Geek team in the trivia competition at San Diego.
PAD
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What a nice letter! I echo those sentiments . . . I picked up CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 on a whim, based on my love for your HULK run, and have been hooked ever since. It’s clever, fun, thought-provoking, and one of the few comics to EVER make me laugh out loud.
’nuff said.
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That *is* a very cool letter. I haven’t ever read any of your comic books, but I am a fan of your Star Trek novels. Long after I stopped reading them regularly, I still find myself wandering into that section of the SF/F area and picking up the ones with your name on them. And even when I gave the bulk of my ST paperbacks to friends or family or second-hand book stores, I kept yours 🙂
There, another screaming fangirl letter for you.
Tempest
I have to say that this letter expresses exactly what i’ve thought of Peter since i picked up Hulk #377 so long ago.
BTW, CM2 was really cool, need #3 now! hehe
Since we’re praising PAD, it was because of him that I first got into comics. I was 13 years old, and I picked up MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #45, and there was a story in there written by PAD in which The Incredible Hulk called out Hulk Hogan for stealing his name and totally whipped his butt! I thought that was pretty funny, and started reading the Hulk book. I really got caught up in that title because the Hulk was actually much deeper than I expected, and I identified with the whole child abuse thing (although my father never murdered my mom). Before that, I never imagined reading comics could make me laugh and cry. It just went from there. I started reading X-Men, Spider-Man, a bunch of other titles. I mowed lawns in the summer and spent all my money on comics.
Later, I found out that PAD wrote novels, and I picked up Imzadi. Before that, I had never even watched an episode of Star Trek, but since then, I’ve been a big ol’ Trekkie.
I never actually worked in the comics industry, but drawing comic book characters has been one of my favorite hobbies, and I owe it all to PAD. Thanks, Peter!
Peter, you are the best, believe me. Bendis is okay with me, but Morrison is one of the most incredibly overrated writers I’ve ever seen in comics. It’s you who should be writing X-Men, not him.
I sure hope you’ll please try and take up the challenge of working on the X-books again as you did years ago. I think that you for one could restore it to some real glory, and I could provide you with ideas on how to do it, if neccasary.
What you made with Captain Marvel in this new VOL was great. He is now one of those Bigger than life characters.
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I have the buck the trend. I just loved the last volume of Captain Marvel. It was my favorite comic and probably my favorite comic of the past 10 or so years. It was the first comic I read from my “Weekly big ášš stack of comics” (TM) and almost always one of the ones re-read several times. This new volume however, I don’t feel the same way. Had issue 2 been the first time I was exposed to CM, I doubt I would of ever picked up another issue. The change from the light and humorous to the dark and weighty was extremely jarring. I’ve followed PAD from his Hulk and Spiderman 2099 days and currently get Supergirl (I character I don’t care for at all) just because he writes it and CM because it was really really good. However I feel that he has tripped up and created something that will not be looked upon fondly as time passes. Still, at least it will be remembered. (Which is more than I can say for Morrision’s New Xmen who manages to stretch a 2 issue story to fill 10 issues)