David has named "Groo the Wanderer", "Liberty Meadows", "Fables", "", "Strangers in Paradise", "Runaways", "She-Hulk", "Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane", "Knights of the Dinner Table", "The Crossovers" and J. Michael Straczynski's run on "Spider-Man" as comics that he has enjoyed. Other creators whose work he has long-admired include John Romita, Sr., John Buscema, Gene Colan, and others he has stated he presently admires or are friends that he enjoys working with include George Pérez, Andy Kubert, and Rick Leonardi. He has named Pérez as his favorite artistic collaborator, and has named Pérez, Leonard Kirk and Dale Keown as the artists whose art has mostly closely matched the visuals he conceived when writing comic book scripts.