*Main Post* 30 Days of Scans! Day 14: Favourite writer(s)

[benicio127]

This is almost as hard as yesterday's choice...




I am actually going to have to go for a tie between Greg Rucka and Fabian Nicieza. This one is soooo hard. Greg Rucka because first I read No Man’s Land comics. Then I bought the novelization. And I just loved it. And then I bought Huntress: Cry for Blood. And I was astounded by the quality of writing. And then I picked up a couple of issues of Batwoman. And that man can write such amazing, strong women. It’s inspired me to pick up Wonder Woman: Hiketeia. (Which I totally looked for at Toronto's Fanexpo yesterday and couldn't find anywhere.

Three pages from Detective 855















As for FabNic, his Cable & Deadpool series was by far one of my favourite series ever. His humour is incredible and the stories brilliant.














Runner Ups

Paul Dini (for Mad Love, Heart of Hush, his Detective run and all his work on Batman: The Animated Series)

Judd Winick (for Under the Hood, Under the Red Hood, Pedro and Me, JLI: Gen Lost and Red Hood: Lost Days)

Gail Simone (for Secret Six and Birds)

Devin Grayson (for Gotham Knights)


Suggested tags: char: batwoman/kate kane, char: deadpool/wade wilson, creator: Greg Rucka, creator: J.H. Williams III, creator: Fabian Nicieza, creator: Paul Dini, creator: Judd Winick, creator: Gail Simone, creator: Davin Grayson, series: 30 days of scans
 

Comments

[crinos]

So who is that albino lady fighting with Batwoman?

[skjam]

"Alice" is her codename, the white skin is makeup so far as we know, and who she *actually* is, is a spoiler.

[newnumber6]

Brian K. Vaughan's probably at the top of my list right now, even though he needs to get back to writing comics if he wants to stay there. Say, there's a Runaways comic at Marvel that needs a writer, some fresh meat on the title would really help... ;) I kid, I kid, I know that's unlikely, but I do want to see more comic work from him.

Other contenders... hmm... well, there's lots, really. Fabian Nicieza's one of the more underrated favorites, he often does really great work that flies under the radar, so I'll name-check him.

[newnumber6]

Woops, thought you were naming Rucka because of the first scans and so just scrolled past the scans, didn't even realize you named FabNic right off the bat! ;)

[whitesycamore]

This is hard - there's no comic writer I love unequivocally all the time.

But overall? I'll go for Alan Moore. He's got his drawbacks (oh god does he ever) but I find him both thought-provoking and emotionally affecting.

[benicio127]

Yeah, I mean everything I've read of FabNic's and Rucka's I've loved, but I've never read their entire work and I probably never will. My runner ups I've read lots of things I've loved, but also some things I haven't liked as much.

[heartsalliance]

BRIAN AZZARELLO! I love him even if he has Mexicans in Chicago saying "Barrio" unironically. How much do I love him writing Lex Luthor? SO. MUCH.

ROBERT KIRKMAN! I love him, because he writes things, and they make sense! Why isn't he writing Spider Man? I don't even like Spider Man, but WHY NOT GOD, WHY?

[thosefew]

Have Big Bertha and Volstagg ever met?

[icon_uk]

Volstagg is a happily married man, I doubt much would come of it.

[icon_uk]

Yeah, there's no one writer I ALWAYS love, all have good days and bad days, or series that just do nothing for me, but that shouldn't count against them

Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Fabian Nicieza, Gail Simone, Marv Wolfman... are only a very short sample.

[whitesycamore]

Exactly! And comic writing is so intimately connected with things like art and pacing and panel layout that it's hard for me to pin down exactly what makes a really great comic writer.

But man, you have some excellent taste there. I was kind of hesitant to name all the the writers I enjoy because they're kind of embarrassingly obvious and already acknowledged as "great", but a lot of them are on your list.

[nervousystem.livejournal.com]

I always hated Fabien Nicieza. My first contact with his work was in the original X-Force, #1-43 (plus the Age of Apocalypse alternate reality).

This is going to be confusing:

X-Force was my favorite comic as a kid but the dialog and characterizations made me wince hardcore. Granted, in the very beginning, he was shackled to Rob Liefeld as a co-author and Liefeld is hardly a master scribe, but later on, he really punched me in the gut with some lame stuff. I loved the period between #15-25 (including the X-Cutioner's Song crossover chapters), but as an actual teenager at the time, I had a strong sense that he "didn't get it."


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A few months ago, I bought a volume of Cable & Deadpool (The Human Race) and I can't say that I liked it much. He contradicted one of my favorite characterizations of his, being Sam Guthrie/Cannonball by making him out to be a hot-headed jerk. I mean Deadpool's a bad guy, but I always dug how Guthrie was never mean or spiteful to the bad guys and now he had the guy calling Deadpool a "twit," which leaves me totally cold. It took a minute to process that this was the same writer!


Finally, what he did to Feral in X-Force was unforgivable.

[icon_uk]

As FabNic created Feryl (IIRC) anything he did to her was what was always planned. Aside from cheerfully loathing the character, what did he do that was so wrong?

[keeva]

My fave is Dwayne McDuffie.



If my comics and scanner weren't packed up for a move across town, I'd make a post about it.

For now, be content with this link to the return of the Brown Bomber.

He's also won acclaim and awards for his animation writing on Static Shock, JLU, etc. Here's a trailer for Crisis on Two Earths:

[keeva]

Oops, it didn't embed. Here's a direct link to the trailer for Dwayne's Crisis on Two Earths.

[kd_the_movie]

As with many here, there's few writers I fully like. Even some of the writers im not too fond off have churned out amazing work.

But i'd say thay my favorite comic book writer is Kurt Busiek (Avengers, astro city, marvels). He's pretty consistent and ill always appreciate him for Superman: Secret Identity.

Secondly would have to be Mark Waid. (for his Flash, Legion work, JLA, impulse, Fantastic Four.

And even though im not a fan of most of his current decisions, Geoff Johns work has provided me with a great deal of entertainment. Johns imo has incredible vision and scope, he's just a little short on execution and his own biases and opinion frequently infect his work; Regardless, ive mostly enjoyed his work on GL, Superman, his first Flash run, and his initial JSA run.


And finally

[yaseen101]

And finally?

[apintrix]

Jeff Smith for overall creator! His "writing" is as much storyboarding and timing as it is the dialogue.

[werehawk.livejournal.com]

Alan Moore. Social issues aside, look at his writing. Swamp Thing was pure poetry. And regardless of how Johns built on his short GLC stories, taken by themselves, they were fantastic little pieces. Watchmen, Supreme, Last days of Superman. I could go on. Not that any writer is perfect. For example, I HATED Legion of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

[darklorelei]

Probably BKV, but oddly I'm less slavish about creators for comics than I am for most other media.

[retro_nouveau]

Paul Dini. For being instrumental in bringing us the DCAU.

2. Gail Simone, 3. Stan Lee, 4. Chuck Dixon, 5. Dwayne McDuffie, 6. Brad Bird, 7. Roy Thomas, 8. Gardner Fox, 9. Keith Giffen, 10. J. M. DeMatteis

[leikomgwtfbbq]

'Nother tough call. XD

Again in no particular order:

1) Neil Gaiman

2) Alan Moore

3) Paul Dini

4) Gail Simone (I have such a girlcrush on Ms Simone XD)

5) Naoki Urasawa

6) Greg Rucka

7) Andy Diggle

8) Mike Carey

9) Denny O'neil

10) Will Eisner

11) Junji Ito (again XD)

12) Dwayne McDuffie

13) Warren Ellis (Has anybody subscribed to his twitter? It's hilarious!)

[whitesycamore]

Junji Ito? Damn, I can't believe I forgot about him! Totally &hearts
The Enigma of Amigara Fault is like the platonic ideal of a short horror story.

[nezchan]

Ursula Vernon. Her writing on Digger is smart, funny and sharp.

[requiem2adream]

Motto on Greg Rucka. Though I haven't read everything he's written I have yet to find fault in anything of his I have read.

Gail Simone is my other favourite.

Runners up are BKV for Runaways and Allan Heinberg for Young Avengers. The only reason the don't make the grade is because I haven't read anything by them except the two series mentioned.

For a while, back when I started reading comics, I would have cited Brian Bendis (who I still quite enjoy reading but not as much as I used to) and probably Bill Willingham as well. We live and learn, right? XD

[http://www.google.com/profiles/NielJacoby]

No particular order:

1: Jack Kirby
2: Fabian Necieza
3: Warren Ellis
4: Hideaki Soraichi
5: Garth Ennis
6: Keith Giffen & JM Demmateis(as a team)
7: Osamu Tezuka
8: Bill Willingham
9: BKV
10: Kazuo Koike

[yaseen101]

I've always have had a love-hate relationship with Rucka, one hand; he writes great female characters and I loved his work on WW but on the hand, with the exception of a few moments, he wrote perhaps the worst Batman/Bruce Wayne I've ever seen. .

Rant aside, my favorites are:

- Dwayne McDuffie
(best dialogue writer in any medium)
- Paul Dini (plotting, ideas, dialogue)
- Devin Grayson (great character beats, fun at times)
- Marjorie Liu (have you read her issues of Black Widow?)
- Mike W. Barr
(great mix of Detective fiction and supeheroes)
- Denny O'Neil
(likewise)
- Nawoki Urasawa
(going against the norm to create something great)
- Kohta Hirano
(great action, dialogue, interesting use of historical figures)
- Paul Cornell
(fun, quirky and interesting writing)

There are many others, whom I don't know by name, but do great jobs on cartoons, movies and television series. Namely; Castle, White Collar, Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Monk and Iron Man.

[keeva]

Have you read Dwayne's work on Batman/Bruce Wayne? He did two four-part arcs on one of the Batman serieses.

[taggerung301]

I really like Bendis.

I've really enjoyed his work on Ultimate Spiderman, Alias, and the New Avengers.

[punishermax]

Bendis gets shit on a lot by damn if he don't write a fine comic.

[punishermax]

Eiichiro Oda

The man can do it all. I've never read a comic so consistently funny, heartbreaking and amazing as One Piece. His ability to pull off call backs and pull at your heart strings is amazing as well.

[starwolf_oakley]

Random favorites:

Louise Simonson: She got me into the X-books via X-FACTOR. She also did great stuff on SUPERMAN: MAN OF STEEL.

Alan Moore: WATCHMEN may have done more harm than good to superhero comics, but its still great. TOP TEN show he can be VERY funny when he wants to be.

Scott Lobdell: Did great and funny X-book stuff for a long time. One of the more underrated X-writers.

[icon_uk]

Louise Simonson on Power Pack will always have a place in my heart, but I have a hard time forgiving her for her New Mutants run.

[northstarfan]

Tends to shift according to mood, but people who I will always be glad to see more work from:

Richard Starkings
Eric Shanower (also in the running for "Favorite Artist")
Alan Davis (see above)
Nunzio DeFilippes & Christina Weir
Stan Sakai
David Hine
Alison Bechdel
Tim Fish
Mike Carey
Gene Luen Yang

[angelophile]

Brian K. Vaughan. There's plenty of creators who've been responsible for work I've loved, but he makes the top of the list for his diversity and writing not just one project I loved, but many: Runaways. Marvel Icons: Chamber. Dr. Strange. Y: The Last Man. Pride of Baghdad. Mystique. The Escapists. All totally diverse, but equally brilliant. So, he gets the golden handshake.

[leikomgwtfbbq]

Where on Earth did your icon come from? XD Molly playing with unicorns? Hell yes.

In no particular order

[nervousystem.livejournal.com]

Warren Ellis
Peter David
Joss Whedon
Brian K. Vaughan
Matt Fraction
Greg Rucka
Gerard Way
Grant Morrison
Garth Ennis
Peter Milligan
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Wood
Kyle & Yost
Colleen AF Venable
Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti
Kathryn Immonen
Neil Gaiman
Alan Moore

******

Brandon Graham
Jaime Hernandez
Meredith Gran
Megan Kelso
Jeff Smith
Katsuhiro Otomo
Jessica Abel
Ross Campbell
Kate Beaton
Mike Mignola
Bryan Lee O'Malley
Bill Waterson
Charles Schulz
Gilbert Hernandez
Scott McCloud

[halloweenjack]

Alan Moore: You're still the one, after all these years...