David Pepose

His book Spencer & Locke was nominated multiple times for the Ringo Awards[1][2] and he won in 2021 for Best Single Issue for his self-published comic The O.Z.

is like what if The Hurt Locker took place in The Wizard of Oz — we’re reimagining Dorothy Gale killing the Wicked Witch of the West as something akin to a botched regime change, and when Dorothy returned home to Kansas, she inadvertently left Oz in a horrific power vacuum that would spiral into brutal civil war.

[16][17] In 2023, he wrote stories for Carnage Reigns and Extreme Venomverse,[18][19] as well as a five-issue mini-series Moon Knight: City of the Dead,[20] which introduced a new Scarlet Scarab similar to the one on the Disney+ show.

[23][24][25] In 2024, Dynamite Entertainment announced that Pepose would write a new Space Ghost comic series with artist Jonathan Lau.

[27][28][29] In November 2024, it was announced that he would be writing a new Speed Racer series from Mad Cave Studios starting with a Free Comic Book Day issue.