Haha, that really made me laugh for some reason. I think it’s 'cause I’ve never noticed goody to NOT bash anything. Except maybe he might’ve said something faintly praising Alan Moore once- but I’m not sure because that could’ve been a dream I had.
ROCK ON
Yeah, I have a piss-poor attitude about a lot of things.
I do like Alan Moore. He is one of the most creative guys out there. Take a gander at the DC Universe Stories Of Alan Moore collection–it’s mostly a bunch of minor stuff he did during his time in the trenches at DC, but there is so much good stuff in it. That’s what I like about him: he invests a certain level of cleverness in nearly everything he does, even something as insignificant as a back-up story.
Art Spiegelman is brilliant. Robert Crumb’s artwork is fantastic, though I haven’t had the opportunity to read a lot of his stuff. Frank Miller is great. I’ll take a look at just about anything with his name on it. Will Eisner was a great storyteller, and his artwork is jaw-dropping, never mind innovative at every turn. Brian K. Vaughn is a deranged storyteller. Y: The Last Man and especially Ex Machina are great fun. Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series is obviously genius, and I could probably stand to check out his other stuff. Steranko is an artist’s artist, one of the few guys to get away with experimenting in the mainstream. Steve Ditko’s art is great, and his big characters–Spidey, Dr. Strange, and The Question–are all very cool. Elliot S! Maggin is one of the first guys to really invest solid storytelling in the superhero genre. It’s primarily because of him that we are able to see a guy wear his underpants over a pair of tights and still take the story seriously. Neal Adams’ Batman is probably my pick for the definitive visual representation of the character to date.
Hmm, do I have anybody else to mention, before I run out of nice things to say and go back to my curmudgeonly normal self?
Oh yeah. Scott McCloud. His writings about comics as a medium are among the most insightful ever, and I can’t recommend Understanding Comics enough to anybody who is legitimately interested in the art form.
There. I’m done. Everybody else in the industry can suck a turd to a point and stab themselves in the face.
My two favorite writers are Grant Morrison and Alan Moore. Mike Carey is third.
I really don’t know who’s better, Morrison or Moore.
Gaiman is overrated. And his novels are terrible.
EDIT: I don’t know who is more overrated: Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, or James Robinson. It’s a dead heat! At least Gaiman has something decent on his resume…
SECOND EDIT: Wait, Robinson did “The Golden Age”. That was good. But the sour taste of Starman has sort of won out in my mind.
THIRD EDIT: Oh and as for Ennis, a few good Hellblazer plots on the one hand, the absolute train wreck of Preacher on the other. The wheels came off of that one fast after a good start.
So that’s why I am the god of DC?
I like Morrison and Guy Gardner?
hmm, it’s a simple enough formula, I can’t argue that.
Because your avatar is a reversed S, I will choose to believe you are speaking Bizarro-talk.
Agreed.
American Gods is absolute genius.
Harcore, Taichi… Still awake at this hour… You a Skrull or something? Some alien freak who don’t need sleep?
naw, I blew my car up two days ago, so I don’t have anything to do, or any place to be.
Sano I didn’t catch the new nightwing im waiting for my cousin to give it to me how was it???
LOLOLOL
checking out american gods soon. hope its good
Good luck with that. Maybe it’s your cup of tea. Wasn’t mine.
What do you disagree with? My saying Gaiman is overrated? Forgive me for not prostrating myself before the altar of a writer with exactly ONE good monthly series on his resume. Sure, Sandman was good (although I don’t by any stretch think it was the best comic of all time), but what else has he done? Some good limited series (Books of Magic, etc) and a few one-shots.
His Marvel stuff was sub-par.
Explain to me why Neil Gaiman deserves to be spoken of when talking about the best comic book writers. In my book he’s little better than a one-hit wonder.
Best Comic Book Writers?, perhaps not.
but very few can break the barrier and become a great writer, period.
Gaiman has done it, he does work in both Comics AND regular Fiction.
Overrated?, I disagree, his accolades are well-earned, and well-deserved.
Talked about it in detail a few pages back. Short version, didn’t care for the issue much. It was one of those ‘build up for the fight in the next issue’ type of stories. Love Wolfman but I’m not too crazy about him contradicting Nightwing Year One, ohs well hopefully next ish will be all about beatdowns.
Don’t know if Wolfman’s gonna stay on the book. Nicieza’s gonna do an arc and so is Milligan. Nicieza’s a fan of the character so that should be interesting. His story will have Nightwing, Robin and Damian jump Ra’s.
Hahahaha. “Dear ASSHEADS…”
I checked in at my local establishment today. Seems All Star Superman #9 has been bumped back to October 10th. #8 came out in early July.
I heard the book was bogged down by delays, but that is a big fuck-off delay.
that sucks.
for a book that comes out only once every other month, it should never have these problems.
as for the actual letter I sent, I dropped the F-Bomb.
twice.
I’m really actually impressed that they dignified it with a response.
the letter I wrote sat on my desk for a week, while I decided whether or not I actually wanted to send it, then one day it was gone.
I asked my dad if he sent it, and he had, so that pretty much was that.
That was a pretty funny response you got. Writing an obscene letter to Dan DiDio must be a great way to get J’onn Jones’ autograph.
lol.
no, it just means I’ll never write for DC.
Ever.
Even if you sent the written equivalent of fellatio to DiDio, your chances of writing for DC would not be good. They have a very incestuous talent pool. They rarely mine new talent for artists, and they never hire new talent to write.
One might surmise that this has a negative quality on big name comics in general. One might.
