Comments on: A Month of Writing Stars - Tom Peyer

By: Speed Reading: Creator Catch-Up « Speed Force

Speed Reading: Creator Catch-Up « Speed Force — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:57:55 +0000

[...] Should Be Good is running a Year of Writing stars. Monday’s installment: Tom Peyer, who wrote last year’s six-part Flash arc, “Fast [...]

By: Travis Pelkie

Travis Pelkie — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:53:13 +0000

Oh, he co-wrote the Flash/GL B&B series? I was thinking that was just Waid. That was great too.

By: Anthony Strand

Anthony Strand — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:08:54 +0000

Ooh, excellent choice. I love Peyer. Absolutely love him. Among things that weren't mentioned -

DC 2000 is one of the craziest and most fun things ever written involving the JSA (how can you not love 1940s-era Spectre seeing a computer for the first time and dubbing it an "Informatio-Scope"?)

Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold (which he co-wrote with Mark Waid) features Wally West becoming "Teen Lantern", among a couple dozen other delightful moments.

He's one of the good ones.

By: David

David — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:36:08 +0000

It's Bongo, not Bingo.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:10:08 +0000

Yep, that's the one.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:00:34 +0000

Is this the same Tom Peyer who wrote the fantastic editorial spiel for Grant Morrison's Doom Force?

By: Aqualad

Aqualad — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:04:57 +0000

It was a superhero team-up without being a superhero team-up, and it was all about conspiracy theory and millenial angst. What's not to like?

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:09:57 +0000

That Atom special was by Tom Peyer so you're safe

Abysmal? Come on. Totems was fun.

Really it was one of the worst comics I've ever read - which was shocking considering Tom Peyer wrote it.

By: Travis Pelkie

Travis Pelkie — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:55:36 +0000

Didn't Tom Peyer write the first Atom Special, the one that Steve Dillon did the art on? That is one of my favorite one shots ever, with Chronos and all. Great book.

Of course, my face is red if someone else wrote it...

By: Tang

Tang — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:57:14 +0000

do Len KAMINSKI!!!!

By: Matt D

Matt D — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:22:15 +0000

Well hey, Hourman and his LSH work are both great, right? And then there was Starfire wearing a tin foil hat.

I really liked his Acclaim work though!

By: DubipR

DubipR — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:01:39 +0000

I loved Peyer's Legion work...especially when he brought part of the team in the 20th Century during the Final Night crossover. Some of the best writing of Legion in years.
Another good writer chosen.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:46:23 +0000

Peyer is great; love his Hourman and a lot of that Post-ZH Legion stuff, Godd choice Brian, underappreciated and well worth a second look. Could I be so bold as to suggest Peter B. Gillis for a future installment? His Gammarauders made reading RPG spin-off comics bearable. Also Tom Joyner, co-writer on the amazing Hammerlocke.
As ever, keep up the good work...

By: Stephane Savoie

Stephane Savoie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:23:52 +0000

I enjoyed Fast Money, but hated his work on LEGION and REBELS. I was baffled that the man who had produced that drek could go on to write the genius of Hourman.
Different strokes, I guess.

By: agent_torpor

agent_torpor — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:46:11 +0000

."He did six issues (that were all marvellous), set up ongoing plot points," Really? That "Fast Money" Flash arc with everyone in Keystone hating Flash and that ridiculous "media" villain was abysmally bad. I chalked it up to the book being dumped anyway, so half-assed material is what you were gonna get, served hot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:45:36 +0000

By: Ian A.

Ian A. — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:13:50 +0000

Today we look at a neat all-ages writer for Marvel Comics!

You might want to change that, Brian.

Anyway...

Poor Peyer, man. He's had a terrible stream of luck at the big two lately. Seems like his runs are constantly being cut short, the books are cancelled outright, or he's stuck on thankless fill-ins and supplemental projects.

Remember when he swapped arcs with Ennis on The Punisher? Yeah, me either.

Hope he has better luck at Bongo and Oni.

By: Aqualad

Aqualad — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:05:34 +0000

Abysmal? Come on. Totems was fun.

By: Beta Ray Steve

Beta Ray Steve — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:57:04 +0000

He also wrote an arc of The Authority. The 'Replacement Authority' was a lot of fun.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:45:51 +0000

Good call. I've always liked Tom Peyer's writing (except on the strangely abysmal Totems one-shot for Vertigo). But damn you for pointing out loads of his stuff that I haven't got. Now I'm going to have to get the last year or two of L.E.G.I.O.N that I'm missing and all of R.E.B.E.L.S!