| Author |
|
Gene Mason
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 May 2007
Posts: 123
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | 1
|
|
|
Judd Winick - I don't really understand how this guy gets regular gigs on top tier books.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Steve Swanson
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 December 2007
Location: Canada
Posts: 333
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | 2
|
|
|
Jeph Loeb is one writer that some work of his I like a lot and other works I don't like much at all.
Loved Superman for All Seasons, Challengers of the Unknown, the first arc of Superman/Batman and the Superman story he wrote for his son in Superman/Batman made me cry like a baby.
But I didn't like his run on the main Superman title and I haven't enjoyed Ultimates at all.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Gene Mason
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 May 2007
Posts: 123
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | 3
|
|
|
Mr. Shock Treatment himself.
********
That's interesting to me. I never thought that about Morrison.
If anyone deserves that title, I think it's Mark Millar.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Gary S. Lee
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 30 May 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 700
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | 4
|
|
|
Brian Michael Bendis.
The whole phenomenon baffles me.
If it's not panels full of dialog and exposition, it's static repetitive panels.
And the guy couldn't write an action sequence if his life depended on it.
The ultimate example of a writer who should never write superhero
comics.
And yet, he might as well be running Marvel/
G.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
| www
e-mail
|
| |
Kevin Brown
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 May 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 8956
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | 5
|
|
|
Grant Morrison.
Mark Millar.
Judd Winick.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
JT Molloy
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 19 February 2008
Posts: 2092
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | 6
|
|
|
Bendis will have a 2 page spread of 8 heroes smashing through a wall
only to stop DEAD and talk for the next 6 pages. I just plain do not get it.
JMS spent half his run on Spider-Man explaining why it should work
when it doesn't.
Warren Ellis writes superheroes like he's doing it as community service.
Morrison is not a genius. Knock it off fanboys.
There's plenty more, but I have to confess my weakness to Mark Millar. I
didn't go near Civil War, but I liked most of what I've read of his. He's a bit
post-modern/deconstructionist at times but has absurdly cool ideas and
writes action like the world is ending.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Paulo Pereira
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 24 April 2006
Posts: 15539
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | 7
|
|
|
JMS.
I want to say Grant Morrison, Mark Millar (and others) but I haven't read enough of their work, nor am I likely to do so.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Thomas Moudry
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 5060
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | 8
|
|
|
Outside of Powers, I just don't get Brian Michael Bendis. I find his stuff dull.
Lots and lots of talking, but not much seems to happen. I tried his Ultimate
Spider-Man, Daredevil, and New Avengers, and it all felt like prelude.
Edited by Thomas Moudry on 19 March 2008 at 8:27pm
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Paulo Pereira
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 24 April 2006
Posts: 15539
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | 9
|
|
|
Oh yeah, I want to say Bendis too but I haven't really read anything of his either.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Gene Mason
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 25 May 2007
Posts: 123
|
| Posted: 19 March 2008 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | 10
|
|
|
The one thing about Bendis that I find funny is that he'll use a double page spread for a single conversation. He done this in Powers a few times. He also once said that treating every issue like it's somebody's first is "Lazy Writing". I don't know if he was joking or not. I'm sorry but I don't have a link to the interview where he said it.
Edited by Gene Mason on 19 March 2008 at 8:52pm
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Ron Chevrier
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: Canada
Posts: 1641
|
| Posted: 20 March 2008 at 12:23am | IP Logged | 11
|
|
|
I'll second or third Judd Winnick. I only ever liked his Outsiders work. His other work is kind of bland, in my opinion. Brought back Jason Todd, what more need be said.
These other writers, I only "get" about half the time:
J.M. DeMatteis: loved his Spider-Man work, loved Moonshadow, loved the first 20 issues of JLI. He lost me on Dr. Fate and The (Hal Jordan) Spectre when he brought in all the mystic reincarnation mumbo-jumbo that forms his personal belief system. Started to lose interest in the League titles when it degenerated into the "stupid situation/villain of the month for inept heroes" section of the DCU.
Kieth Giffen: See above for JLI. Loved Ambush Bug, Heckler and Vext. Will never forgive him for the beginning of the end that became his Legion of Superheroes title.
Max Allan Collins: great mystery and Miss Tree writer. Saddled us with Jason Todd, the delinquent.
Brian Azzarello: I can't figure out half the stuff going on in 100 Bullets. Maybe I'm just kinda slow . . . That Superman run was a big yawn. I like Loveless a lot, though, and his recent Dr. 13 backup in Tales of the Unexpected was a riot.
Rachel Pollock: What she did to Doom Patrol . . .
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Steve Horn
Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 February 2008
Location: United States
Posts: 636
|
| Posted: 20 March 2008 at 3:21am | IP Logged | 12
|
|
|
Max Allan Collins: great mystery and Miss Tree writer. Saddled us with Jason Todd, the delinquent.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The Max Allan Collins Batman stories made me want to vomit when they first came out. The were no where near the league of what Mike W Barr was doing in Detective Comics at the time.
|
| Back to Top |
profile
| search
|
| |
Topic Closed)
