News Comic writer Peter David has passed away

[Set Harth]

I gotta see if I can find my copy of Vendetta, I don't remember these things.

 

[the G-man]

Similarly when he wrote the novelization of The Rocketeer he had been told by whoever it was the wrote the novelization of Dick Tracy (Max Allan Collins) that Disney got very cranky about the various 1930's pop culture references that he had tried to include in DT. So PAD tried to flood the zone, as it were, with The Rocketeer, figuring they couldn't catch them all. They didn't touch a one of them!

I wonder if that had anything to do with Beatty and Disney thinking DT was going to be the next Burton Batman and being less bullish (unfortunately) on the Rocketeer.

 

[Tallguy]

I wonder if that had anything to do with Beatty and Disney thinking DT was going to be the next Burton Batman and being less bullish (unfortunately) on the Rocketeer.

Perhaps. I know that in 1990 Dick Tracy merch was EVERYWHERE for a movie that went nowhere. A year later when The Rocketeer came out and I wanted every piece of merch they would sell me, there wasn't much at all. (OMG. I don't think I had remembered that that was only a year apart.)

I was so delighted that PAD got to write the book for my favorite movie that year.

 

[the G-man]

I know that in 1990 Dick Tracy merch was EVERYWHERE for a movie that went nowhere

DT was definitely a disappointment because the studio thought it would do Batman numbers but as I understand it, the film was still slightly profitable and did nab Pacino an Oscar nomination.(and the film some wins in the technical and musical categories).

 

[Tallguy]

DT was definitely a disappointment because the studio thought it would do Batman numbers but as I understand it, the film was still slightly profitable and did nab Pacino an Oscar nomination.(and the film some wins in the technical and musical categories).

Including Doug Drexler!

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I'll miss him personally and professionally....including his hilarious run of MST3K during his Shore Leave conventions, plus more fiction panels than I could count.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'll miss him personally and professionally....including his hilarious run of MST3K during his Shore Leave conventions, plus more fiction panels than I could count.

The year they -- Peter, Robert Greenberger, and Michael Jan Friedman -- did the failed "Alexander" pilot with William Shatner (as Alexander the Great) and Adam West was a fun one.

 

[Commander Troi]

I was lucky enough to be at a Con where they surprised Harlan Ellison with Peter David showing up. Best comedy duo I've ever seen!

"We're young and just us."

Rest well, sir.

 

[Ghost]

I wish I had the opportunity to meet the man in person. I emailed him once but I don't recall if I ever got a response.
That is the drawback of living in the Netherlands, its difficult to participate in cons as that would require having enough money to fly and stay in the US for a couple of days.

Goodbye PAD, I will remember you for the comics and books you made that entertained during difficult periods.