David is Jewish (a fact he ofttimes information around his each month column, "But I Digress" for the comedian industry periodic ''Comics Buyer's Guide) and lives in New York.

In the early 1980s he worked for Marvel Comics in their sales department under Carol Kalish. When there, he submitted the plot line for The Spectacular Spider-Man'' entitled "The Death of Jean DeWolff". A story was published, illustrated by Rich Buckler, and ran when issues #107-110. the story focused on the demise of a supporting character in the Spider-Man continuity and the characters' responses to that. A story was acclaimed, two critically & popularly, & David left his sales job & became a regular writer of The Outstanding Spider-Human for the period. David credits Kalish for influencing him personally & for pushing him into the writing career, writing the moving eulogy to his previous boss around "But I Digress" when her sudden dying from either coronary failure around 1991.

Shortly when his rerun on The Spectacular Spider-Man, he began a prolonged process writing The Incredible Hulk, reviving interest in the flagging title & getting much of critical praise for his efforts. Numbers of fans assume David's act on The Hulk to become a definitive interpretation of the character; David's reoccurring themes of Bruce Banner using to treat with psychological abuse by his tyrannic father (the theme 1st introduced by writer Bill Mantlo), his periodic changes between a 'Green' hulk (existence extra rageful) & a 'Gray' hulk (further cerebral) & of existence A craftsman hero (looking for A recently front yard when going away The Retaliator) gave The Hulk very much extra emotional depth than got been seen prior to. (A notion of parental abuse was over agawithin seen in film writer Michael France's script of Ang Lee's theatrical adaptation of the character, Hulk). Still, in of these further than a single occasion, editorial problems or even even corporate pressure to modify or re-script his plotlines keep around forced David to leave books, particularly his guide to leave Wonder's X-Factor, due to constantly having to constrain his plots to accommodate crossover cases aforethought as much as it & more "mutant" titles (like X-Men, X-Inflict, etc). After David suddenly left A Intense Hulk due to editorial pressures, a select few of the plot points of the character that David established were reversed by late originative teams. When such creative-editorial conflict occurs as commonplace occurance around comedian, David's departures tend for additional ill fame & click in a amusing community, therein a fact that his books typically get fan favorites.

As well in and of itself, David's personality & high viability in the comedian profession has led to originative or even portable differences using a few of his mirthful peers, particularly an extended-long-lasting feud using Spawn developer Todd McFarlane through much of a 90s when the comic book imprint McFarlane's co-founded, Image Comics, inherit prominence. David is noted for his prolific writing, characterized by its dexterous mingling of real globe issues using humor and references to popular culture. __NOTOC__ Comic books

At Marvel Comics, in addition to his Hulk & Spider-Human act, he created the character Spider-Man 2099, and has besides experienced stints write about Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell), Wolverine, Merc, and Justice.

At DC Comics he wrote a miniseries The Atlantis Chronicles about the history of Aquaman's home of Atlantis. David hwhen for instance referred to this series as one of his special pieces of writing. He too wrote the drawn-out stint on the each month Aquaman comedian itself, too when long diarrhea for Supergirl, Young Justice, and a Star Trek comedian book. A Star Trek dog (in the mid-90's while DC Comics held the rights to the title) was besides a fan special, once more highlighting his utilise of humor, & for scripting stories by using hard ties to Trek's existent continunity. His process in Aquaman as well gained ill fame therein in the period of the process of the book, Aquaman misused the hand, which was so replaced by having an daunting hooked spear, a feature of the character that endured for many years.

More comedian series he has worked in include Soulsearchers and Company and the Epic Comics title Sachs and Violens, with art by George Pérez.

He is presently (when of 2005) writing the acclaimed risible Fallen Angel, which moved from DC Comics to IDW Publishing with issue 20, & an additional process in Intense Hulk. He is besides required to run 2 newly series for Marvel Comics in the fall of 2005: Friendly Front yard Spider-Human & the re-launch of X-Factor.

Novels

David has published twelve of novels, numerous of which keep close at hand manufactured appearances on the New York Times bestseller list. He is better known for his Star Trek novels, including Q-in-Law, I,Q, Blood feud, Q-Squared, and Imzadi, one of the right-selling Star Trek novels ever. He created Star Trek: New Frontier, a spin-byproduct from either Star Trek: The Next Generation, with John J. Ordover in 1997. He has as well written many Babylon 5 novels.

He has likewise written original science fiction and fantasy works, including Knight Life, One Knight Simply, Howling Mad, Sir Apropos of Nothing, A Woad to Wuin & Tong Lashing.

Other published work

His opinion column "But I Digress" occurs as staple of the ''Comedian Purchaser's Solution comedian industry periodical.

David wrote the life history of James Doohan.

Prior to David became the agent writer, he was the prolific creator of fan fiction, including [http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/archives/001443.html "The Tardis at Pooh Corner"].

Other media

David has written for many television series. He wrote deuce scripts for Babylon 5, and 1 for its sequel Crusade. By having actor/writer Bill Mumy, he is co-creator of the television series Space Cases'', which ran for deuce seasons in Nickelodeon. He has likewise written & co-produced many films for Full Moon Entertainment and has made cameo appearances within a few of the films also.