CBR: R.I.P. Stephen Perry

[CBR News]

After a battle with cancer and a spotlight provided by the HERO Initiative, the former comic book and animation writer met a sudden tragic end as friends and colleagues move to keep his memory alive with fans.


Full article here.

[Thad]

Reposting from the Robot 6 thread; hope that's okay.

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My thoughts are with his family and friends. So sad to hear this.

It's a jarring contrast -- the difference between the worlds he wrote about and the life he lived. Third Earth, Thundera, Limbo -- these were places where good always triumphed and justice, truth, honor, and loyalty carried the day.

I've mentioned this in other threads, but I'm trying to help put together a list of his credits. Here are Thundercats episodes that list him as writer:

The Doomgaze
Safari Joe
Queen of 8 Legs
Feliner (2-parter)
Tight Squeeze
Trapped

There are also 4 episodes which are missing their title cards on the DVD release, The Unholy Alliance, Dimension Doom, The Thunder-Cutter, and The Evil Harp of Charr-Nin; Unholy Alliance is almost certainly Leonard Starr, but if anybody could help me find the writer credits for the other 3, it would save me the trouble of going through my VHS collection. (Don't know if it's appropriate to ask if anybody knows where I can find pre-DVD rips of the shows, but I stress that I'm not looking for illegal downloads; I already own legal copies of all the episodes, I just need to find the writer credits on those 3 episodes.)

I should have Silverhawks credits soon.

Goodbye, Mr. Perry. I didn't know you, but your work was important to me. I'll always remember you.

[Mr MajestiK]

I'm ashamed to say that I'm not familiar with any of the late Stephen Perry's work but that in no way diminishes the anger that I feel at his untimely passing at the hands of truly despicable persons.

He definitely did not deserve the evil that befell him and my heart and condolences go out to his son and the rest of his family.

May he rest in peace.

[Gabe De Los Muertos]

It's really sad what happened to him and I hope his kid is okay. May he get the justice he deserves.

[gwangung]

This really, really, really, really sucks.

[stelok]

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com...-was-murdered/

I hope the police catches his killers.

May Mr. Perry rest in peace and be avenged.

[Thad]

Also, the caption on the image in the article says:

A "ThunderCats" comic featuring Perry's Safari Joe character.

To elaborate a bit, the issue shown was actually written by Perry, adapted from his script from the cartoon.

(Oddly, in the comic he's referred to as "Safari Jo", with no "e".)