Will Pfeifer


William "Will" Pfeifer is an American comic book writer.

Career

Personal life

Will Pfeifer was born in 1967 in the town of Niles, Ohio. He attended Kent State University and graduated in 1989. He has resided in Rockford, Illinois since 1990, with his wife, Amy. Pfeifer, along with his comic writing duties, is the former assistant features editor at the Rockford Register Star. He also wrote a weekly DVD column for the Sunday paper during his time there.

Comics

Pfeifer got his break working with artist Jill Thompson on Vertigo's Finals miniseries.
Pfeifer wrote Catwoman for DC Comics until its cancellation, and temporarily took over for John Rogers on Blue Beetle. He also wrote the Amazons Attack! miniseries, and an issue of Wonder Woman.
In July 2014, the series Teen Titans was relaunched with a new issue 1 written by Pfeifer, with art by Kenneth Rocafort.

Podcast

Pfeifer is a featured host on the Out of Theaters podcast, which launched in April 2015. The podcast leverages Pfeifer's extensive movie knowledge by introducing classic movies to his younger co-host. In September 2016, Pfeifer began co-hosting the Pictures Within Pictures podcast. The show spotlights a comic book series or original graphic novel, dissects it, and puts it into a digestible historical and narrative context. In October 2022, Pfeifer began co-hosting the Film Force 5 podcast discussing movies in various categories and ranking them into top 5 lists with co-hosts and guests.

Vertigo Comics

  • Finals
  • * "Back to School"
  • * "All-Nighters"
  • * "Hell Week"
  • * "Pomp & Circumstance Beyond Our Control"
  • Flinch #15
  • Swamp Thing vol. 4 #7-8
  • * "Missing Links"

    DC Comics

  • Bizarro Comics, "The GL Corps: The Few, the Proud"
  • JSA Secret Files and Origins, "Pulling the Mask from History's Face"
  • Guide to the DC Universe Secret Files and Origins 2001-2002, "A Year in the Life"
  • Cartoon Cartoons #13, "Brak Talk"
  • H.E.R.O.
  • *Power and Abilities
  • ** "Powers and Abilities"
  • ** "Meet Matt Allen"
  • ** "Girl Power"
  • * "Don't Try This @ Home"
  • * "A World Made of Glass"
  • * "The Great Leap Forward"
  • * "Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes"
  • * "Whatever Happened To Robby Reed?"
  • * "Goodguys & Badguys"
  • * "Pieces of Hate"
  • * "Picking Up The Pieces"
  • Batman: Gotham Knights #46, "Urban Renewal"
  • Aquaman vol. 6 #15-22
  • *Sub-Diego collects:
  • ** "American Tidal"
  • ** "With the Fishes"
  • Blood of the Demon #1-17
  • * "Born Again"
  • * "Hunters"
  • * "Friends and Enemies"
  • * "Masks"
  • * "Today We Choose Faces"
  • * "The Gathering Storm"
  • * "Cages of the Mind"
  • * "Mind Games"
  • * "Tortured Souls"
  • * "New Gods and Old Monsters"
  • * "Angels & Devils"
  • * "Wrath Of The Lamb"
  • * "Demon Quest"
  • * "This Painful Existence"
  • * "Lost & Found"
  • * "Pandemonium"
  • * "The End"
  • Batman Allies Secret Files and Origins 2005, "Street Crime"
  • Catwoman vol. 3 #44-82
  • *Volume 4: The One You Love collects:
  • ** "The One You Love"
  • *Volume 5: Backward Masking collects:
  • ** "Backward Masking"
  • ** "The Replacements"
  • ** "Memories Are Made of This"
  • ** "It's Only a Movie"
  • ** "Sons and Daughters"
  • ** "The Paperweight"
  • *Catwoman Dies collects:
  • ** "Catwoman Dies"
  • ** "Life During Wartime"
  • ** "Mother's Day"
  • ** "Crime Pays"
  • *Crime Pays collects:
  • ** "Crime Pays"
  • ** "Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Universe"
  • *The Long Road Home collects:
  • ** "The Long Road Home"
  • ** "Final Jeopardy"
  • Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #197-199
  • * "Blaze of Glory: The Spark"
  • * "Blaze of Glory: The Fuse"
  • * "Blaze of Glory: The Fire"
  • Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre
  • *Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre collects:
  • ** "Dead Again"
  • Amazons Attack!
  • *Wonder Woman: Amazons Attack! collects:
  • ** "The Last Full Measure of Devotion"
  • ** "Battle Lines"
  • ** "The Road to Hell"
  • ** "Things Fall Apart"
  • ** "Trouble on the Home Front"
  • ** "Pyrrhic Victory"
  • Wonder Woman vol. 3 #5, "Gimme Shelter"
  • Blue Beetle vol. 8 #27-28
  • *Black and Blue collects:
  • ** "Black Magic Woman"
  • ** "Brutus"
  • Spirit vol. 2 #17, "Art Walk"
  • Red Hood and the Outlaws #29-31
  • *Volume 5: The Big Picture collects:
  • ** "The Big Picture"
  • Teen Titans vol. 5 #1-16
  • *Volume 1: Blinded by the Light collects:
  • ** "Blinded by the Light"
  • ** "Human Resources"
  • ** "One Brief, Shining Moment"
  • *Volume 2: Rogue Targets collects:
  • ** "Divergence: Teen Titans"
  • ** "One Brief, Shining Moment"
  • ** "Rogue Targets"
  • ** "The Source of Mercy"
  • *Volume 3: The Sum of Its Parts collects:
  • ** "Aftermath"
  • ** "On the Run; A Tale from Robin War"
  • ** "The Sum of its Parts"
  • Teen Titans: Future Ends #1, "Team Effort" collected in ''Futures End: Five Years Later Omnibus''

    Marvel Comics

  • X-Men Unlimited #32-33
  • Iron Man 2.0. #10-12
  • *Volume 2: Asymmetry collects:
  • ** "The Palmer Addley Infection"

    WildStorm Productions

  • Wildstorm Winter Special, antologhy, "Small World, After All"
  • Captain Atom: Armageddon #1-9
  • *Captain Atom: Armageddon collects:
  • ** "A Scream Across the Sky"
  • ** "Brave New World"
  • ** "Power Struggle"
  • ** "Fight Scene"
  • ** "No Exit"
  • ** "Sometimes When We Touch..."
  • ** "Who Says the World Needs Saving"
  • ** "Lessons in Nuclear Physics"
  • ** "The End"
  • ''The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Cut!''

    Tor Books

  • ''The Advance Team''