What’s just crossed my desk

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

In the past few days, this is what I’ve been up to creatively:

1) Working on an original “Fantastic Four” novel slated for publication from Pocket Books next year.

2) Just finished proofreading the manuscript for the novelization of “Spider-Man 3.”

3) Am about to start proofreading the manuscript for “The Hidden Earth,” first book in a new series from Tor slated for Spring of 2007.

4) Finished proofreading “Fallen Angel #11” which has gone out to the printer (and, by the way, J.K. Woodward has updated his website and is offering cover art from retailer incentive covers of “Fallen Angel.” Several have already sold, so check them out at http://www.jkwoodward.com

5) Finishing proofreading “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #14.” As to what’s coming up in that issue, two words: Ben Reilly. I will say no more than that (okay, Deb Whitman and the Vulture). But…Ben Reilly.

6) About to start scripting issue #2 of “Dark Tower.” Jae Lee’s artwork will knock you off your spider throne.

PAD

61 comments on “What’s just crossed my desk”

  1. Is the FF novel based on the movie Fantastic Four, which you’ve written for before, or the “regular” Marvel Universe? (Although, with the novels, it’s always a question on how much they belong in the “regular” Marvel universe, to begin with.)

  3. Ben Reilly???

    You’re a brave man to open up that can of worms again.

    Seriously, though, there are very few writers capable of doing something like this and making a ripping good story out of it. You’re one of them.

    Can’t wait.

  5. PAD, when you have a lot of projects at once do you go with one and spend most of your writing time on it or go back and forth between projects? Also, do you find that the resuklts are better worse or no different when you have multiple projects as opposed to just one or two?

  7. With the work the you put out, and the rate at which you do it, does your desk have it’s own zip code? Thing has to be HUGE, man!

    Ben Reilly…sorry about the puddle of drool…

  8. Re: Ben Reilly

    I love it already.

    So, do you polarize the fans on purpose, or were you bitten by a radioactive politician?

  9. So much for the ship in a bottle I was hoping to commision from you.

    I am looking forward to the Deb Whitman story very much and may have to pick up the Spidey 3 novelization! Congrats on the volume of work!

  10. “The Hidden Earth,”

    This is the one with mythological creatures that have mostly taken over Earth, with humans almost wiped out, that you read from at Dragon*Con 2004, right?

  11. Ben Reiley? Ok I’m excited. I know the character is assosiated with the clone saga but most people hate the clon story line and not Ben himself.

  12. Deb Whitman AND Ben Reilly?!? I can’t wait!
    BID: I missed some issues during that story line. Was it ever explained anywhere what happened to the Parker baby?

  13. So is the alternative-reality homicidal Uncle Ben going to take the alias Ben Reilly?

    I’d prefer to see the actual clone used, but that’d be a nice little hat-tip. Even if it confuses handbook entries no end.

    Dave W – MJ had a drug put in her food by Osbourn that made her miscarry. All the hints about the baby being taken away by his henchwoman came to nothing. I think there was some double-meanings about “May being alive,” which eventually led to the retun of Aunt May, and the end of that subplot.

  14. See, I never minded the clone storyline. Just made me glad my name isn’t Parker. Or Reilly. Or whatever.

  16. I thought the Clone Saga started out pretty decent and and well-thought out…until the end when they tried desperately to hit the RESET button.

    Ben Reilly was an awesome character. He stood on his own two feet and I had no problem seeing him as the one-true Spidey. In the back of my mind, I always hoped that Reilly’s death was yet another Osborn trick. Something to shake Peter up even more and somewhere…the real Ben Reilly was hidden – waiting to be freed.

    Dammit Marvel! Make Mine Reilly!

  17. 5) Finishing proofreading “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #14.” As to what’s coming up in that issue, two words: Ben Reilly. I will say no more than that (okay, Deb Whitman and the Vulture). But…Ben Reilly.
    I’ve been waiting for the inevitable Deb Whitman story since the Reveal.

    And to Hades with Ben Reilly. Will we ever see the return of muchly missed Candi, Bambi, and Randi?

    And isn’t Pete’s getting onto the wrong side of the government something the Foreigner would like to take advantage of? (That was kinda his master plan lo those many years ago.)

  18. I just read about the Ben Reily over at http://www.comicbloc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37996

    And I just wanted to say if you are really bringing back Ben Reily, that is some of the coolest news I’ve heard all year. And for the first time in nearly 10 years a Spiderman comic will be on my pull list. I really hope this is for real, Scarlet Spider was one of my favorite characters and I’d love to see him brought back.

  19. I always liked the idea of Ben Reilly even if the Clone Saga could out suck a Hoover. I hope this is the real deal and that you make him something that can stand shoulder to shoulder with Spider-Man.

    Hidden Earth. It seems like you’ve been teasing us with that one for two or three years now. Do all the first books from your creator owned works take this long to go from green light to press?

  20. Peter David, I’m a long time fan, first time commenter, and I kinda met you at Wonder Con in San Fran awhile back. Anyway, several things to say.

    1) Since you’re writing the Spider-man 3 novel, is the film everything I’m hoping (since I loved the last two)?
    2) Thank you for planning something with Ben Reilly again. I loved Ben when I first read him, and if you didn’t, I was going to do something with him when I become a writer.
    3) Any advice for aspiring authors who want to write novels AND comics?

  21. I *heart* Ben Reilly. In a completely non-homosexual manner. Not that theres anything wrong with that.

  22. I’m laying halfway decent odds that “Ben Reilly” is tied into Civil War; we know that Tony Stark is above neither cutting deals with Norman Osborn nor cloning his own allies ‘just in case,’ and Peter has really ticked Tony off now.

  24. OMG BEN REILLY!!!!! if its THE Ben Reilly than I love you, first time ill be buying a 616 spidey book for about 10 years! and if it is Ben ill probably be buying 20 to send Marvel a message that he should be here to stay
    I have faith in you PLEASE dont rip off all us clone fans (of which there are many just check out the official reilly thread on the superherohype forums!)

  25. Ksa:
    3) Any advice for aspiring authors who want to write novels AND comics?

    I suggest reading Writing for Comics with Peter David. Doesn’t talk much about writing novels, but it’s a good place to start.

  26. Thanks, Peter. I just kicked a $150-a-month comic book habit. Did my local comic shop owner put you up to this “Ben Reilly” thing?

    I really hope that you’re not just jerking those of us who love Ben around and that this isn’t going to turn out like the “Ultimate Ben Reilly” tease did a while back (where there was, what, a two panel cameo by a character who had absolutely no lasting significance (that I know of)).

  31. I’m curious about the New Frontier myself. Any ideas on when the new one will be out? Waiting anxiously!

  32. Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you (you get the idea).

  34. I will read them all .. LOL … see the threats facing authors ( including web authors ) at patnox.com

  35. I will read them all .. LOL … see the threats facing authors ( including web authors ) at patnox.com

    Well, it looks as though the collective nerd/geek elite is at this moment wiping off their monitors from the Orgasms they just had with regards to the ‘juicy table scraps’ that LORD PAD had deemed us worthy to receive.

    All hail Lord PAD!

  36. “I suggest reading Writing for Comics with Peter David. Doesn’t talk much about writing novels, but it’s a good place to start.”

    You mean the same book that on Amazon.com got reduced from $19.99 new to $12.96 new and can currently be bought for $12.42.used?

    I’d wait if I were you.

    The price is only going to go down.

  37. Posted by: Ben Bradley at November 5, 2006 10:13 PM

    Well, it looks as though the collective nerd/geek elite is at this moment wiping off their monitors from the Orgasms they just had with regards to the ‘juicy table scraps’ that LORD PAD had deemed us worthy to receive.

    All hail Lord PAD!
    _________________________________________________

    New Study Reveals Internet Trolling No Substitute for Sex

    Nov 5

    By Bill Myers

    A study published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry finds that Internet trolling is far less satisfying than sex.

    The study was based on interviews of males and females aged 16 through 55. It compared the attitudes of those who have been engaged in sexual activity in the last 12 months with the attitudes of those who have chosen instead to vent their sexual frustrations over the Internet as part of a phenomenon known as “trolling.”

    The study found that un-sexed Internet trolls tended to be less satisfied with life in general than their more well-sexed counterparts.

    Study participant Ben Bradley rejected the findings.

    “No one can tell me that sex is more satisfying than Internet trolling,” said Bradley. “How could they? I haven’t even kissed a girl! I have no frame of reference.”

  38. Why can I see Hidden Earth having several passages where smart people just pound trolls on the heads with 16 pound sledgehammers?

  39. Although, I do have to admit, that’s the first time I’ve ever seen orgasm written like a proper noun. Any further comment and people are going to be thoroughly nauseated, so I’m shutting up now.

  40. Loved the clone saga. Ben Reilly is one of my all time favorite characters. Even though I doubt it’s “THE” Ben Reilly, I’m glad he’s at least not forgotten.

  41. “I’d wait if I were you.

    The price is only going to go down.”

    As opposed to every other book on Amazon which skyrockets in price…

    PAD

  42. PAD –
    As opposed to every other book on Amazon which skyrockets in price…

    *chuckle*

    I was just going to say, your book is worth every penny, regardless of cost, PAD.

    Of course, since I’m liberal, I must be wrong.

  43. “Of course, since I’m liberal, I must be wrong.”

    Uh, yeah, and after tomorrow the whole world is going to know it.

  44. Uh, yeah, and after tomorrow the whole world is going to know it.

    Funny, because if you’d actually bothered to read posts here before posting, you’d see that I’m registered independent.

    So, regardless of party affiliation, you have no clue whatsoever who I voted for (and yes, I have already voted, thanks to absentee balloting).

    But that doesn’t stop you from making poor assumptions anyways. Congratulations on showing who is truly the moron here.

  45. “As opposed to every other book on Amazon which skyrockets in price…”

    I think PAD is thinking of the PARADISE ISLAND Amazon.com—the shipping costs from there’ll kill ya 😉

    I was always told that the only reason that a products goes up in price is if its in short supply and in high demand…..uh…oh…sorry PAD…..

  46. “Funny, because if you’d actually bothered to read posts here before posting, you’d see that I’m registered independent.”

    Sorry dude, but you’re just interesting or significant enough to me to bother checking.

    Besides, you’re the one who admitted that he was wrong.

  47. “Sorry dude, but you’re just interesting or significant enough to me to bother checking.”

    I meant “Sorry dude, but you’re just NOT interesting or significant enough to me to bother checking.”

    See? That’s called correcting an error in speech right after you made it.

    Someone ought to tell John Kerry about that. Might come in handy some day.

  48. “Congratulations on showing who is truly the moron here.”

    And THANK YOU for showing the world which of the two of us is more ANAL.

  49. Posted by: Ben Bradley at November 6, 2006 10:56 AM

    And THANK YOU for showing the world which of the two of us is more ANAL.

    Hey, Sparky, I notice you haven’t replied to the satirical post I wrote to poke fun at you. I know you’ll claim that it’s because I’m not interesting. That’s OK. I know the truth. The real reason is because I hit a nerve and you’re a coward.

    You’re also stupid. We’re going to cut you to shreds.

    Have a nice day, Sparky.

  50. Besides, you’re the one who admitted that he was wrong.

    Hmm. Apparently your job is to puts words into the mouths of others. Either that, or you’ve taken it upon yourself to borrow Mike’s ability to make leaps in logic.

    Maybe you should open your own mouth and insert your foot.

    I like this idea: we put you on suicide watch tomorrow. You just might need it.

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