Mike Guardabascio at PulpFictionOnline has dubbed Greg Pak and Ed Brubaker as the year’s best mainstream comic book writers. Here’s the blurb about Pak:
No question about it, nobody turned in more solid performances than these two guys this year, in mainstream books at least. Greg Pak changed the tenor of big events with his universe-spanning Planet Hulk epic, followed by the spectacular World War Hulk, which was marketed as its own event but which reads much better as a sequel to PH. Pak did an event with characters true to their cores (unlike Civil War), that improved a major character without retconning or changing him too much. Pak’s Hulk is spectacular, and not to be missed.