fiction.wikisort.org - Director

Greg Pak is an American comic book writer and film director. Pak is best known for his work on books published by Marvel Comics, including X-Men (most notably X-Treme X-Men), several titles featuring the Hulk (including Planet Hulk, which was one of the storylines eventually adapted into the film Thor: Ragnarok), and Hercules.[1] In 2019, Pak began writing Star Wars comics for Marvel.

Greg Pak
Pak at the 2017 New York Comic Con
Born	Dallas, Texas U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	New York University University of Oxford Yale University
Occupation	Writer, comics creator, director
Employer(s)	DC Comics Marvel Comics
Known for	Action Comics Batman/Superman Planet Hulk World War Hulk Incredible Hercules Storm Superman: Doomed John Wick
Awards	Rhodes Scholar
Website	Official website

Early life

Pak was born in Dallas, Texas, to a Korean-American father and a Caucasian mother. He graduated from Hillcrest High School. He studied political science at Yale University, where he wrote for the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record,[2][3] and was a member of the Purple Crayon improvisational group. In 1991, he went to study history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar with the intent of becoming a politician. He then entered New York University's graduate film program.[2][4][5][6]

Career

Pak's New York University (NYU) student film, Fighting Grandpa, which centered on his Korean grandparents, won the Gold Medal at the 25th Student Academy Awards.^{[citation needed]} His short film "Asian Pride Porn", starring playwright David Henry Hwang and director Michael Kang, was licensed to Atom Films. Pak wrote and directed the feature film Robot Stories. He collected his screenplays in the book Robot Stories & More Screenplays, whose foreword was written by David Henry Hwang.

Pak worked as the cinematographer on the 1998 documentary short The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years, which was directed by his wife, Keiko Ibi. In March 1999, the film received an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject at the 71st Academy Awards.[7]

Pak began writing for Marvel Comics in September 2004 and signed an exclusive deal with them in July 2005.[8] He has worked on such titles as Warlock,[9] Phoenix: Endsong,[10] Phoenix: Warsong,[11] Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, and Dynamite Entertainment's spin-off series based on the Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica.

His 2000s projects include Incredible Hercules,[12][13][14] World War Hulk: Warbound and Skaar: Son of Hulk,[15] all spinning-off from World War Hulk, as well as Magneto: Testament[16] and War Machine.[17][18][19] Pak is one of the featured contributors to Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.[20]

In June 2013, Pak began writing Batman/Superman for DC Comics.[1] In November 2013, he began writing Action Comics with issue number 25.[21]

Personal life

Pak is married to Japanese filmmaker Keiko Ibi.[7]

Filmography

• Robot Stories (2003)
• Po Mo Knock Knock (1999)
• Mouse (Short) (1997)

Bibliography

Marvel Comics

• Warlock vol. 5 #1-4 (with Charlie Adlard, 2004)
• X-Men:
  • X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong #1-5 (with Greg Land, 2005)
  • X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong #1-5 (with Tyler Kirkham, 2006–2007)
  • Magneto: Testament #1-5 (with Carmine Di Giandomenico, 2008–2009)
  • Astonishing X-Men #44-47, 60-61 (with Mike McKone and various, 2012-2013)
  • X-Treme X-Men #1-13 (with various, 2012-2013)
  • Storm #1-11 (with various, 2014-2015)
  • Weapon X #1-27 (with Greg Land, 2017–2019)
  • X-Men Prime #1 (with various, 2017)
  • Weapons of Mutant Destruction: Alpha #1 (with Mahmud Asrar, 2017)
• Marvel Nemesis: The Imperfects #1-6 (with Renato Arlem, 2005)[22]
• Iron Man: House of M #1-3 (with Pat Lee, 2005)
• Marvel 1602: New World #1-5 (with Greg Tocchini, 2005)
• What If: Submariner (with David Lopez, 2006)
• Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #15 (with Patrick Scherberger, 2006)
• Hulk:
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #92-111 (with various, 2006–2007)
  • Incredible Hulk #601-611, 709-717 (with various, 2009-2010, 2017-2018)
  • Incredible Hulks #612-635 (with various, 2010-2011)
  • The Totally Awesome Hulk #1–23 (with Frank Cho, December 2015 – 2017)
  • Giant Size Hulk #1 (with various, 2006)
  • Planet Hulk Gladiator Guidebook (with co-author Anthony Flamini, 2006)
  • What If: Planet Hulk
  • World War Hulk #1-5 (with John Romita, Jr., 2007–2008)
  • World War Hulk: After Smash (with Rafa Sandoval, 2008)
  • World War Hulk: Warbound #1-5 (with Leonard Kirk and Rafa Sandoval, 2008)
  • Skaar: Son of Hulk #1-12 (with Ron Garney, 2008-2009)
  • Skaar: Son of Hulk Presents - Savage World of Sakaar (with various, 2008)
  • Planet Skaar Prologue (with Dan Panosian, 2009)
  • Dark Reign: The List - Hulk (with Ben Oliver, 2009)
  • Generations: Banner Hulk & The Totally Awesome Hulk (with Matteo Buffagni, 2017)
  • Weapon H #1–12 (with various, 2018-2019)
  • Hulkverines #1-3 (with Ario Anindito, 2019)
• Hercules:
  • Incredible Hercules #112-141 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and various, 2008–2010)
  • Hulk vs Hercules: When Titans Collide (with co-author Fred Van Lente and various, 2008)
  • Assault on New Olympus #1 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and Rodney Buchemi, 2009)
  • Thor & Hercules: Encyclopædia Mythologica (with co-authors Fred Van Lente, Paul Cornell and Anthony Flamini, 2009)
  • Hercules: Fall of an Avenger #1-2 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and art by Ariel Olivetti, 2010)
  • Heroic Age: Prince of Power #1-4 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and art by Reilly Brown, 2010)
  • Chaos War #1-5 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and art by Khoi Pham, 2010–2011)
  • Herc #1-10, #6.1 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and art by Cliff Richards, 2011)
• War Machine #0-12 (with Leonardo Manco, 2008-2009)
• Alpha Flight vol. 4 #0.1, 1-8 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and art by Dale Eaglesham, 2012)
• Silver Surfer vol. 6 #1-5 (with various, 2011)
• Red Skull #1-5 (with Mirko Colak, 2011)
• Agents of Atlas
  • War of the Realms: The New Agents of Atlas #1-4 (art by Gang Hyuk Lim, May - June 2019)[23]
  • Agents of Atlas vol. 3 #1-5 (with Jeff Parker, art by Gang Hyuk Lim and Carlo Pagulayan, August 2019 - )[24]
  • Atlantis Attacks #1-5 (2020)
  • Aero #1-ongoing (with co-writer Zhou Liefen, art by Keng, 2019-)
  • Sword Master #1-ongoing (with co-author Shuizhu, art by Gunji 2019-)

DC Comics

• Batman/Superman #1-9, 11–27, Annual #1-2 (with Jae Lee and various, 2013-December 2015)
• Action Comics #23.2, 25–50 (with Aaron Kuder, November 2013-March 2016)
• Secret Origins a segment in #1 (with Lee Weeks, 2014)
• Teen Titans #17–19 (with Ian Churchill, February 2016–April 2016)

Other publishers

• Boom Studios:
  • Mech Cadet Yu (2017)
  • Firefly (2018-)
• Dynamite Entertainment:
  • Battlestar Galactica #0-12 (with Nigel Raynor, 2006–2007)
  • Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #1-12 (with various artists, 2014-2015)
  • John Wick #1-5 (with Giovanni Valletta and Matt Gaudio, 2017-2019)[25]

James Bond 2018-

• Kickstarter:
  • Code Monkey Save World #1(with Takeshi Miyazawa 2013)
  • Princess Who Saved Herself! (with Takeshi Miyazawa 2015)
• Valiant Comics:
  • Eternal Warrior #1-8(with Trevor Hairsine and Robert Gill, 2013-2014)

References

Sources

• Greg Pak at the Grand Comics Database
• "Robot Stories & More Screenplays" Book Collection with Original Commentaries

External links

• Official website
• Greg Pak at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
• Greg Pak at IMDb
• "Asian Pride Porn". AtomFilms.com
• "Robot Stories" Official website

Preceded by Daniel Way	Incredible Hulk writer 2006–2007	Succeeded by Jeph Loeb (New Hulk series)
Preceded by Jeph Loeb (Hulk)	Incredible Hulks writer 2009–2011	Succeeded by Jason Aaron (New Incredible Hulk series)
Preceded by James Asmus	Astonishing X-Men writer 2011–2012	Succeeded by Marjorie Liu

На других языках

---

- [en] Greg Pak

---

[ru] Пак, Грег

Грег Пак (англ. Greg Pak) — американский кинорежиссёр и сценарист комиксов. Работал в издательствах Marvel Comics и DC Comics. Наиболее известен по серии комиксов «X-Treme X-Men[en] vol. 2» и по комиксам о Халке.

---

---