Rick Remender
Rick Remender is an American writer, showrunner, and producer who resides in Los Angeles, California. In comics he is best known for his work on Image Comics such as Deadly Class, Black Science, LOW as well as
Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Force, Captain America, and Uncanny Avengers. In video games he wrote on EA's Dead Space and Epic's Bulletstorm. In film and television he was a showrunner/lead writer on Sony television's adaption of his book Deadly Class.
Career
While in the early stages of his career, Remender worked in animation on such films as The Iron Giant, Anastasia, Titan A.E. and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.In 1998 he teamed up with Harper Jaten and Rory Hensly to create the absurdist humor comic Captain Dingleberry. After four issues self-publishing the series was picked up by SLG Publishing. His next series, Black Heart Billy, was also at SLG with collaborator Kieron Dwyer. In 1999, while producing Black Heart Billy, Remender produced the horror comic Doll and Creature with John Heebink and Mike Manley.
From 2000–2003 Remender went on to co-create and direct an animated series Swing Town for Wild Brain Animation. He also produced comics and album covers for Fat Wreck Chords, a Bay Area punk label. During this time he taught comics, animation, and storyboards at the Academy of Art University, inked The Avengers, and penciled numerous issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
From 2004 to 2006 Remender launched Fear Agent, Sea of Red and Strange Girl with Image Comics, Night Mary at IDW, and he illustrated the comic book adaptation of the movie Man With the Screaming Brain, by Dark Horse Comics. A year later he drew the series The Last Christmas.
From 2007 to 2009 Remender was working on the Dark Horse Comics series The End League, as well as launching a giant robot series Gigantic,. He also relaunched Fear Agent and started, for Image Comics, new horror miniseries XXXombies and Sorrow. He became co-author of Punisher War Journal with Matt Fraction from issue #19 to 25 and then was the main writer on the new and eighth Punisher series. In April 2009, Remender signed an exclusive writing contract with Marvel Comics but was still able to release the series The Last Days of American Crime through Radical Comics. In late 2010 he launched the new title Uncanny X-Force. which served as inspiration for Deadpool 2.
He served as a writer on Electronic Art's game Dead Space and was the lead writer for Epic Games' Bulletstorm, which was released on February 22, 2011.
While at Marvel he created the Uncanny Avengers with John Cassaday and the new Captain America with Stuart Immonen which served as inspiration for the ending of .
From 2013-2019 Rick produced numerous creator owned series such as Tokyo Ghost with Sean Murphy, Death or Glory with Bengal, Black Science with Matteo Scalera, Deadly Class with Wes Craig, LOW with Greg Tocchini, and Seven to Eternity with Jerome Opeña.
In 2017 he served as a showrunner on the Russo brothers and Sony television production of his series Deadly Class. That same year he launched his own imprint Giant Generator at Image Comics and production company of the same name.
In 2019 The Last Days of American Crime was turned into a feature film for Netflix.
SLG Publishing
- Captain Dingleberry #1–7 collected as Captain Dingleberry: Unplugged
- Murder Can Be Fun #12: "The Ride of Your Life!"
- Black Heart Billy #1–2 collected as Black Heart Billy
Image Comics
- Sea of Red collected as:
- * No Grave but the Sea
- * No Quarter
- * The Deadlights
- Strange Girl collected as:
- * Girl Afraid
- * Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
- * Paint a Vulgar Picture
- * Golden Lights
- Fear Agent #1–11
- * Issues #1–4 were collected as Re-Ignition.
- * The series was later moved to Dark Horse.
- 24Seven Volume 1: "I Love Living in the City"
- Put the Book Back on the Shelf: "Nice Day for a Sulk"
- Doll and Creature #1–4 collected as Doll and Creature: Everything Turns Gray
- The Last Christmas #1–5 collected as The Last Christmas
- Sorrow #1–4 collected as Sorrow
- XXXombies #1–4 collected as Crawl Space: XXXombies
- Popgun Volume 1: "The Death of the Midnight Sky"
- Frank Frazetta's Creatures collected in The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta Volume 1
- Black Science collected as:
- *How to Fall Forever
- *Welcome, Nowhere
- *Vanishing Pattern
- *Godworld
- *True Atonement
- *Forbidden Realms and Hidden Truths
- *Extinction is the Rule
- *Later Than You Think
- Deadly Class collected as:
- *Reagan Youth
- *Kids of the Black Hole
- *The Snake Pit
- *Die for Me
- *Carousel
- Low collected as:
- *The Delirium of Hope
- *Before the Dawn Burns Us
- *Shore of the Dying Light
- *Outer Aspects of Inner Attitudes
- Tokyo Ghost collected as:
- *The Atomic Garden
- *Come Join Us
- Seven to Eternity collected as:
- *The God of Whispers
- *Ballad of Betrayal
- *Rise to Fall
- Death or Glory
Dark Horse Comics
- Man with the Screaming Brain #1–4 collected as MWTSB
- Fear Agent collected as:
- * Re-Ignition
- * My War
- * The Last Goodbye
- * Tales of the Fear Agent includes:
- ** "Along Come a Spider"
- ** Tales of the Fear Agent: Twelve Steps in One
- ** "Nothing to Fear..."
- * Hatchet Job
- * I Against I
- * Out of Step
- The End League collected as:
- * Ballad of Big Nothing
- * Weathered Statues
- Gigantic #1–5 collected as Gigantic
Marvel Comics
- X-Men:
- *What If? featuring Age of Apocalypse: "What If Legion Had Killed Xavier and Magneto?"
- *Wolverine: Dangerous Games: "Purity"
- *Deadpool #1000: "Appetite for Destruction"
- *Wolverine: Road to Hell: "The first day of the rest of your life"
- *Uncanny X-Force:
- ** The Apocalypse Solution collects:
- *** "The Apocalypse Solution"
- ** Deathlok Nation collects:
- *** "Five Point One"
- *** "Deathlok Nation"
- ** The Dark Angel Saga: Book 1 collects:
- *** "Unintended Consequences"
- *** "Journey to the Age of Apocalypse"
- *** "Interruptions"
- *** "My World Won't Stop Without You"
- ** The Dark Angel Saga: Book 2 collects:
- *** "Thunder for the Next World"
- *** "Tabula Rasa"
- *** "No Such Thing"
- *** "Opens a Window"
- *** "Red Sky Blue"
- *** "Live with This"
- ** Otherworld collects:
- *** "Ghost Reunion"
- *** "Otherworld"
- *** "Frozen Moment"
- ** Final Execution: Book 1 collects:
- *** "Final Execution"
- ** Final Execution: Book 2 collects:
- *** "Final Execution"
- Punisher:
- *Punisher War Journal v2 collected as:
- ** Jigsaw
- ** Secret Invasion
- *Punisher by Rick Remender Omnibus collects:
- ** "Living in Darkness"
- ** "Dead End"
- ** "Remote Control"
- ** "A Good Lie"
- ** "Missing Pieces"
- ** Franken-Castle #17–21
- ** ' #1–5
- Dark Reign: The Cabal: "The Hood: Family Trust"
- Thunderbolts #137 collected in Widowmaker
- Doctor Voodoo: Avenger of the Supernatural #1–5 collected as DV:AOTS
- Age of Heroes #1: "Doctor Voodoo: A Date with the Doctor" collected in Age of Heroes
- 1 Month 2 Live includes:
- * "Week One"
- * "Week Five"
- What If Venom Possessed Deadpool? :
- * "Part One"
- * "Part Two"
- * "Part Three"
- * "Part Four"
- Venom:
- *Volume 1 collects:
- ** "Flashpoint"
- ** "The Same Coin..."
- ** "Father's Day"
- *Spider-Island includes:
- ** "Spider-Island"
- ** "Capital Punishment"
- *Circle of Four collects:
- ** "Road Trip"
- ** "Part One"
- *** "Part Two"
- *** "Part Three"
- *** "Part Four"
- ** "Part Five"
- ** "Part Six"
- *Savage Six collects:
- ** "Home Again"
- ** "Clemency"
- ** "Prologue"
- ** "Savage Six"
- Secret Avengers vol. 1 :
- *Volume 1 collects:
- ** "Red Light Nation"
- ** "The Descendants"
- *Volume 2 collects:
- ** "Operation: Phoenix"
- ** "A Council of Masters"
- *Volume 3 collects:
- ** "The Rise of the Descendants"
- ** "Synthetic Dawn"
- ** "Tomorrow Will Rise"
- ** "Grandfather Clock"
- ** "Mutiny"
- ' #4, "Daredevil vs. Psylocke" collected in Avengers vs. X-Men: VS
- Uncanny Avengers vol. 1 :
- *Volume 1: The Red Shadow collects:
- **"New Union"
- **"Skullduggery"
- **"Skull & Bones"
- **"Thunder"
- **"Let the Good Times Roll"
- *Volume 2: The Apocalypse Twins collects:
- **"The Apocalypse Twins"
- *Volume 3: Ragnarok Now collects:
- **"The Apocalypse Twins"
- **"The Day Nor the Hour"
- **"Rapture"
- **"Yesterday Didn't Exist"
- **"Ragnarok Now"
- *Volume 4: Avenge the Earth collects:
- **"Avenge the Earth"
- *Volume 5: Axis Prelude collects:
- ** "Let's Get Well"
- ** "Far From Refuge"
- ** "The Low Road"
- ** Magneto vol. 3 #9–10
- ** "Avengers of Supernatural"
- Captain America vol. 7 :
- *Volume 1: Castaway in Dimension Z: Book 1 collects:
- **"Castaway in Dimension Z"
- *Volume 2: Castaway in Dimension Z: Book 2 collects:
- **"Castaway in Dimension Z"
- *Volume 3: Loose Nuke collects:
- **"Loose Nuke"
- *Volume 4: The Iron Nail collects:
- **"The Iron Nail"
- *Volume 5: The Tomorrow Soldier collects:
- **"The Tomorrow Soldier"
- Winter Soldier: The Bitter March
- *Avengers & X-Men: AXIS collects:
- ** "The Red Supremacy: Chapter 1 – We Will All Be Dead Tomorrow"
- ** "The Red Supremacy: Chapter 2 – Theme to a Desperate Scene"
- ** "The Red Supremacy: Chapter 3 – Good News for Bad People"
- ** "Inversion: Chapter 1 – Altered Beast"
- ** "Inversion: Chapter 2 – Something Clearly Went Wrong"
- ** "Inversion: Chapter 3 – Awakened Like Us"
- ** "New World Disorder: Chapter 1 – End The Line"
- ** "New World Disorder: Chapter 2 – Why They Sting"
- ** "New World Disorder: Chapter 3 – Grinding Halt"
- All-New Captain America
- *Volume 1: Hydra Ascendant #1–6
- Uncanny Avengers vol. 2
- *Volume 1: Counter-Evolutionary collects:
- ** "Counter-Evolutionary"
- Avengers: Rage of Ultron
- Hail Hydra
- *Hail Hydra #1–4
Other publishers
- Kieron Dwyer's LCD #0–3
- More Fund Comics: "Black Heart Billy: Anti-Fashion"
- Tales of the TMNT: The Collected Books Volume 4 includes:
- * "The Worms of Madness"
- * "Loops"
- Night Mary #1–5 collected as Night Mary
- Dynamite:
- *Classic Battlestar Galactica #1–5 collected as tpb, 112 pages, 2007,
- *Red Sonja: Vacant Shell
- *Devolution
- DC Comics:
- *The All-New Atom #21–25: "Inside Out" collected in Small Wonder
- *Booster Gold #13–14: "Stars in Your Eyes"
- The Corps! #0
- The Last Days of American Crime #1–3 collected in The Last Days of American Crime