Greg Pak

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 and Hercules. In 2019, Pak began writing Star Wars comics for Marvel.

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, 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.

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 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 began writing for Marvel Comics in September 2004 and signed an exclusive deal with them in July 2005. He has worked on such titles as Warlock, Phoenix: Endsong, Phoenix: Warsong, 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, 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 one of the featured contributors to Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology.

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

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)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 various, 2006)What If: Planet HulkWorld 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-author Fred Van Lente and various, 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 AtlasWar of the Realms: The New Agents of Atlas #1-4 (art by Gang Hyuk Lim, May - June 2019)Agents of Atlas vol. 3 #1-5 (with Jeff Parker, art by Gang Hyuk Lim and Carlo Pagulayan, August 2019 - )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 ComicsBatman/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)
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

Inline citations

General references

 "Robot Stories & More Screenplays" Book Collection with Original Commentaries

External links

 

 "Asian Pride Porn". AtomFilms.com
 "Robot Stories" Official website

Category:American comics writers
Category:American film directors
Category:American people of Korean descent
Category:Living people
Category:Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Category:People from Dallas
Category:Yale University alumni
Category:American Rhodes Scholars
Category:1968 births