Just started getting into Peter David's Hulk. I'm surprised that the editors at the time thought that the David/McFarlane run wouldn't sell and was just intended as a fill-in. Why weren't the two of them together considered a good idea at the time?

Peter was just a guy who worked in the promotions department without any sort of track record as a writer–he was just another wanna-be like so many others. And Todd drew weird, very cartoony, not at all in the typical Marvel style of the era. I don’t know that they weren’t considered a good idea–Bob Harras put them on the series after all. But there wasn’t any particular expectation from them.