His first and longest regular assignment, beginning that year, was working with Keith Giffen on Legion of Super-Heroes with scripters Tom and Mary Bierbaum, and inker Al Gordon.
[3] He developed Body Bags to be part of Ground Zero, an anthology intended for Image Comics, which did not pick it up.
In 2015, Pearson ran a Kickstarter funding campaign for a 96-page story Body Bags: Don't Die Until I Kill You, raising $39,514, nearly double his goal of $20,000.
[4] Meanwhile, he illustrated individual issues and covers for books published by Wildstorm, Marvel, Dark Horse, and Image.
He announced that he was writing and drawing a mini-series called Redbird – intended to be the first of a trilogy – in 2004, but the project was not completed.