New Hulk Comic Shares Heartfelt Homage To Artist George Perez
Legendary comic book artist George Pérez, who recently announced he has been diagnosed with stage 3 pancreatic cancer, received a heartfelt homage from one of his longest-standing colleagues, Peter David. In a recent issue of Maestro: World War M from Marvel Comics, David dedicated a column to his friend.
David and Pérez most famously worked together on the two-part Hulk storyline Future Imperfect, still considered by fans and critics one of the best stories about the Green Goliath. Peter David was the resident writer on The Incredible Hulk at the time, and in the column he tells the story of how his Marvel editor, Bobbie Chase, asked him to write a post-apocalyptic tale that would highlight the talent of an artist who was famous for those kinds of stories. David came up with the idea to flip the premise of Terminator: rather than a futuristic menace coming to the present, Hulk would travel to the future to take on a threat there. However, the only threat that would justify the intervention of someone as powerful as Hulk could only be another Hulk. So the Maestro was born, a ruthless Hulk that rules with an iron fist over an apocalyptic future.
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The artist that Bobbie Chase suggested, however, dropped out of the project. A chance encounter in a doctor's waiting room led to Peter David asking Pérez to come on board, and the writer recalls how he overstepped his role in offering a job to someone without consulting with the editor, but when Chase learned that «someone» was George Pérez, she simply agreed. It was 1992, and Pérez was already a star. After providing the art for The New Teen Titans and for the groundbreaking DC Comics
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