Greg Weisman

Greg Weisman (born September 28, 1963) is an American writer, producer and voice actor. He is best known as a creator of the animated series Gargoyles, The Spectacular Spider-Man and Young Justice. He is also known for being the supervisory producer for the second season of W.I.T.C.H..

Early life and career

Weisman is a former English composition and writing teacher. He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's from USC. Between college and graduate school, he worked on staff in the editorial department of DC Comics, while also co-writing Captain Atom with Cary Bates. When he was 22 years old, he wrote a four-issue mini-series for DC Comics starring the superheroine Black Canary; the first issue of the series was penciled, but the project was ultimately shelved due to the character being used in writer/artist Mike Grell's high-profile Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters series. Elements from the ill-fated project were later used for his DC Showcase: Green Arrow short film. Weisman is Jewish.

Animation

After graduate school, Weisman worked as a development executive at Disney. There, in conjunction with others, he pitched an early comedy-adventure version of the TV series Gargoyles to Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Eventually, the idea was extensively reworked by Weisman, who brought in Michael Reaves to write the pilot five-parter. The series underwent a transformation from its initial conception as a largely comedic cartoon, to an episodic but sequential animated action-drama, and the series was produced for syndication. Though Gargoyles itself bears no on-air creator credit, Weisman describes himself on his website as "one of the creators" of the show. Aired as a syndicated show for 65 episodes, Gargoyles was later picked up for a further 13 episodes by ABC. Weisman was credited as a co-producer of Gargoyles from episode 6, and as a supervising producer for much of the show's second season, but he has disassociated himself from the third season (The Goliath Chronicles), on which he received producer credit. Weisman is notable for the question and answer forum he participates in with Gargoyles fans online.

Weisman's other television credits include overseeing the first season of Max Steel, the second season of W.I.T.C.H., and both seasons of The Spectacular Spider-Man and four of Young Justice. Weisman has written episodes for numerous animated series, including Men in Black: The Series, Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, Bonkers, and Kim Possible. He also voice directs and voice acts on occasion; he played the role of Donald Menken on The Spectacular Spider-Man and Lucas "Snapper" Carr on Young Justice. Weisman was also executive producer on Star Wars Rebels, alongside Dave Filoni and Simon Kinberg, but left the series after the first season. In 2016, it was reported that he would return in the upcoming revival season of Young Justice, alongside Brandon Vietti; the new season, titled Young Justice: Outsiders, began streaming on DC Universe in January 2019.

Comic books

Weisman also continues to write for comics, including in continuity continuations of the storylines from the television series Gargoyles and Young Justice. On the latter, Weisman, along with Kevin Hopps, became full-time writers of the tie-in comic as of issue #7 (as well as issue #0). Weisman also wrote a parody of Gargoyles and Captain Atom in JLA Showcase #1. During his time with the Star Wars franchise, Weisman wrote the miniseries Star Wars: Kanan for Lucasfilm and Marvel Comics. From 2015 to 2016, he wrote the superhero series Starbrand & Nightmask, which lasted six issues.

At San Diego Comic-Con 2022, It was announced that Dynamite Entertainment had acquired the Gargoyles license and that Weisman would serve as the writer of these new comics. In November 2023, it was announced that Weisman would write a new ongoing series for Marvel Comics dubbed The Spectacular Spider-Men, which features Peter Parker and Miles Morales teaming up and fighting supervillains together. The series will also feature artwork by veteran Spider-Man artist, Humberto Ramos.

Novels

After leaving Disney in 1996, Weisman spent two years at DreamWorks, where he created and developed a new television series called Rain of the Ghosts. When the series was not picked up, Weisman bought the property back to turn it into a series of novels. His debut novel, also titled Rain of the Ghosts, was released in 2013. Its sequel, Spirits of Ash and Foam, followed in 2014. Weisman has announced that the third book will be titled Masque of Bones, and in 2015, he released a full-cast unabridged AudioPlay based on Rain of the Ghosts after successfully crowdfunding the project through Kickstarter. In 2016, Weisman released a children's novel in the World of Warcraft universe entitled World of Warcraft: Traveler, followed by a sequel, World of Warcraft: Traveler - The Spiral Path.

Weisman's next novels were set in the Magic: The Gathering universe. War of the Spark: Ravnica was released on April 23, 2019 and made the New York Times Best Sellers List. Its sequel, War of the Spark: Forsaken, was released in November 2019. Alexander Sowa, for CBR, highlighted that "Greg Weissman's War of the Spark: Ravnica [was] infamous among fans for its misrepresentation of existing characters". Sowa commented that its sequel, War of the Spark: Forsaken, "was greeted with a lukewarm response after it infamously attempted to retcon the sexuality of one of the book's protagonists, Chandra. As a result, the game's publisher, Wizards of the Coast, released an official apology for the novel's poor handling of the subject and canceled plans for the book that was intended for the game's next set, Theros: Beyond Death". Reactions to the sequel were "overwhelmingly negative" and it was "lambasted for its disappointing prose, lack of understanding of character voice, and failure to provide any emotional payoff for the relationships that have been set up in the world of Magic. One aspect that has been called out, in particular, is the biphobic language and erasure around the relationship between the Planeswalkers Chandra Nalaar and Nissa Revane". Weisman issued an apology highlighting the "mutual creative/editorial process with WotC and Del Rey" for Chandra's characterization. Wizards of the Coast made a further announcement that they would no longer censor the content in Magic: The Gathering novels to "accommodate foreign content restrictions".

Bibliography

Comic books

DC Comics

Year	Title	Issue(s)	Notes	Template:Tooltip
1986	All-Star Squadron	63–64	Editor
1986–87	Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe	16–26	Writer
1987–88	Secret Origins	17–23	Editor
1987–91	Captain Atom	10–50	Co-writer (with Cary Bates)
1988	Young All-Stars	8–9	Editor
2011–13	Young Justice	0, 7–25	Writer (with Kevin Hopps)
2017	The Fall and Rise of Captain Atom	1–6	Co-writer (with Cary Bates)
2019	Young Justice: Outsiders (digital comic)	1–2	Writer
2022	Young Justice: Targets	1-6	Writer

Marvel Comics

Year	Title	Issue(s)	Notes	Template:Tooltip
2010	Star Wars: Kanan	1–12
2016	Starbrand & Nightmask	1–6
2024	The Spectacular Spider-Men	Ongoing

SLG Comics

Year	Title	Issue(s)	Notes	Template:Tooltip
2006–09	Gargoyles	1–12	Writer
2007–09	Gargoyles: Bad Guys	1–6

Novels

Year	Title	Publisher	Series	Identifier(s)	Template:Tooltip
2013	Rain of the Ghosts	St. Martin's Press	Rain of the Ghosts	Template:LCCN Template:Oclc
2014	Spirits of Ash and Foam	St. Martin's Press	Rain of the Ghosts	Template:LCCN Template:Oclc
2016	World of Warcraft: Traveler	Scholastic Corporation	Warcraft	Template:LCCN Template:Oclc
2018	World of Warcraft: Traveler – The Spiral Path	Scholastic Corporation	Warcraft	Template:Oclc
2019	War of the Spark: Ravnica	Del Rey Books	Magic: The Gathering
2019	War of the Spark: Forsaken	Del Rey Books	Magic: The Gathering

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director(s)	Notes	Template:Tooltip
2000	3×3 Eyes	Hide	Daisuke Nishio Kazuhisa Takenōchi Kazuhisa Takenōchi	Voice director and story editor (English dub) Direct-to-video series
2003	Atlantis: Milo's Return	Template:N/a	Victor Cook Toby Shelton Tad Stones	Voice director Direct-to-video
2003	Bionicle: Mask of Light	Template:N/a	Terry Shakespeare David Molina	Writer Direct-to-video
2010	DC Showcase: Green Arrow	Template:N/a	Joaquim Dos Santos
2022	Catwoman: Hunted	Template:N/a	Shinsuke Teresawa

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref(s)
1988	Jem	Template:N/a	Writer: "Video Wars"
1992	Raw Toonage	Template:N/a	Development executive
1993–94	Bonkers	Template:N/a
1994–97	Gargoyles	Commando (episode: "Awakening")	Also supervising producer
1998–99	Men in Black: The Series	Template:N/a	Writer
1999	Hercules	Template:N/a
1999–2000	Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles	Template:N/a	Writer and story editor
1999	Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot	Template:N/a	Writer: "Out of Whack"
2000	Max Steel	Template:N/a	Co-developer, writer and producer
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Template:N/a	Writer
2003	The Mummy	Template:N/a
2003, 2007	Kim Possible	Template:N/a
2004–11	Ikki Tousen	Moutoku Sousou	Voice, English dub
2004–05	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!	Template:N/a	Writer
2004–07	The Batman	Template:N/a
2006	W.I.T.C.H.	Template:N/a	Writer and supervising producer
2006–07	Ben 10	Template:N/a	Writer
2007	Legion of Super Heroes	Template:N/a
2008–09	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Donald Menken	Voice; also co-developer, writer and supervising producer
2009–11	Batman: The Brave and the Bold	Template:N/a	Writer
2010–2022	Young Justice	Lucas Carr, Ultra-Humanite, Lobo's Belt, Captain Atom	Voice; also co-developer, writer and producer
2013	Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters	Template:N/a	Writer
2013	Transformers: Prime	Template:N/a
2014–15	Transformers: Rescue Bots	Template:N/a
2014	Beware the Batman	Template:N/a	Writer: "Monsters"
2014–15	Star Wars Rebels	Stormtroopers	Voice; also writer and executive producer
2015	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Template:N/a	Writer: "Eyes of the Chimera"
2016–17	Shimmer and Shine	Template:N/a	Staff writer

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Template:Tooltip
2008	The Last Remnant	Additional Voices
2013	Young Justice: Legacy	Tourist, Undead Soldier	Also writer and creative consultant

Audiobooks

Year	Title	Role
2015	Rain of the Ghosts	Opie / Narrator

External links

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• Greg Weisman's official Facebook page
• Greg Weisman's interview on BAD GUYS & GARGOYLES comic books
• Greg Weisman discusses the new Gargoyles comic series
• Comic historian Alan Kistler interviews Greg Weisman about Spectacular Spider-Man
• Ask Greg – a Gargoyles forum