Greg Pak is an American film director and comic book writer, known for his work on books published by Marvel Comics, including X-Treme X-Men and several titles featuring the Hulk.
Early life
Pak was born in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Hillcrest High School. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he wrote for the campus humor magazine, The Yale Record and was a member of the Purple Crayon improv group. He went on to study history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and film at New York University.
Career
His New York University (NYU) student film, Fighting Grandpa, about his Korean grandparents, won the Gold Medal at the 25th Student Academy Awards. His short film "Asian Pride Porn", starring playwright David Henry Hwang and director Michael Kang, was licensed to Atom Films. Pak's feature film Robot Stories won 35 film festival awards. He collected his critically acclaimed screenplays in the recent book Robot Stories & More Screenplays, whose foreword was written by David Henry Hwang, and which has been used in college classes in writing, film, and Asian American studies.
Pak frequently writes for Marvel Comics, starting in September 2004 and signing an exclusive deal with them in July 2005. He has worked on such titles as Warlock, Phoenix: Endsong, Phoenix: Warsong, Iron Man, and The Incredible Hulk, and Dynamite Entertainment's spin-off series based on the Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica.
2000s projects include Incredible Hercules, World War Hulk: Warbound and Skaar: Son of Hulk, all spinning-off from World War Hulk, as well as Magneto: Testament and War Machine. Pak is also one of the featured contributors to Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.
In June 2013, he began writing Batman/Superman for DC Comics. In November 2013, Pak also began writing Action Comics with issue number 25.
Works
Filmography
- Robot Stories (2003)
Bibliography
Marvel Comics
Titles published by Marvel Comics:
- Warlock #1-4 (5th series) (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, 2006â€"2007)
- Magneto: Testament #1-5 (with Carmine Di Giandomenico, 2008â€"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-ongoing (with various, 2014-...)
- Marvel Nemesis: The Imperfects #1-6 (with Renato Arlem, 2005)
- Iron Man: House of M #1-3 (with Pat Lee, 2005)
- Marvel 1602: New World #1-5 (with Greg Tocchini, 2005)
- Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #15 (with Patrick Scherberger, 2006)
- What If: Submariner (with David Lopez, 2006)
- Hulk:
- Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #92-112 (with varios, 2006â€"2007)
- World War Hulk #1-5 (with John Romita, Jr., 2007â€"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)
- Incredible Hulks #612-635 (with varios, 2009-2011)
- Hercules:
- Incredible Hercules #112-141 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and varios, 2008â€"2010)
- 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)
- Herc #1-10 (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 #0.1-8 (with co-author Fred Van Lente and art by Dale Eaglesham, 2012)
- Silver Surfer #1-5 (with varios, 2011)
- Red Skull #1-5 (with Mirko Colak, 2011)
DC Comics
Titles published by DC Comics:
- Batman/Superman #1-ongoing (with Jae Lee and various, 2013-...)
- Action Comics #23.2, 25-ongoing (with Aaron Kuder, 2013-...)
- Secret Origins a segment in #1 (with Lee Weeks, 2014)
Other Publishers
Titles published by various American publishers include:
- Dynamite Entertainment:
- Battlestar Galactica #0-12 (with Nigel Raynor, 2006â€"2007)
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #1-ongoing (with various artist, 2014-...)
- Eternal Warrior #1-8(with Trevor Hairsine and Robert Gill, Valiant Comics, 2013-2014)
Notes
References
- Greg Pak at the Grand Comics Database
- Greg Pak at the Internet Movie Database
- "Robot Stories & More Screenplays" Book Collection with Original Commentaries
External links
- Official website
- Greg Pak at the Comic Book DB
- PakBuzz Official News Site
- "Asian Pride Porn" AtomFilms.com page
- "Robot Stories" Official Website
- Interview: Greg Pak, 2005
