Thank you for summarizing why I LIKED that Animal Man storyline.
He's just another writer, like all the rest.
My point exactly. Most writers, in ANY medium, are simply BAD. That being said, no, I don't think Morrison is actively involved in a "corporate swindle," but by the same token, I think it takes huge fucking balls to complain about not being as much creative freedom as you'd like with a character that YOU DIDN'T EVEN CREATE.
If your point of view is so nihilistic as to believe that there are no good, mainstream popular comic book writers [...]
They're out there; they're just incredibly rare - Sturgeon's Law - and basically, I've adopted a stance of "guilty until proven innocent" with regard to the quality of their work. Sometimes, I've been pleasantly surprised, but most of the time, not.
And it's hardly just COMIC books that I'm pessimistic about, because as far as I'm concerned, the rise of vast massive anti-talented egos like Stephenie Meyer, Ann Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton show that most of popular fiction as a whole has descended to levels that even Sturgeon would have found depressing.
And why are you getting so obviously pissed off over the fact that I don't unconditionally love everything about comics? If our positions were reversed, I'd probably be getting a Mod Note for adopting a tone as "aggressive" as the one you're showing right now.
And there is hope, but it's always temporary. With any writer, there's a limited window of time, right after they've learned their craft enough not to make rookie mistakes, and right before they start being burned-out old hacks, when they produce good work. It's always a limited window - no writer is worthwhile forever - but what's sad is, more and more, I see writers who are making rookie mistakes at the SAME TIME that they're turning into burned-out old hacks. With rare exceptions, once a writer becomes a Name Brand, they're worthless.
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He's just another writer, like all the rest.
My point exactly. Most writers, in ANY medium, are simply BAD. That being said, no, I don't think Morrison is actively involved in a "corporate swindle," but by the same token, I think it takes huge fucking balls to complain about not being as much creative freedom as you'd like with a character that YOU DIDN'T EVEN CREATE.
If your point of view is so nihilistic as to believe that there are no good, mainstream popular comic book writers [...]
They're out there; they're just incredibly rare - Sturgeon's Law - and basically, I've adopted a stance of "guilty until proven innocent" with regard to the quality of their work. Sometimes, I've been pleasantly surprised, but most of the time, not.
And it's hardly just COMIC books that I'm pessimistic about, because as far as I'm concerned, the rise of vast massive anti-talented egos like Stephenie Meyer, Ann Rice and Laurell K. Hamilton show that most of popular fiction as a whole has descended to levels that even Sturgeon would have found depressing.
And why are you getting so obviously pissed off over the fact that I don't unconditionally love everything about comics? If our positions were reversed, I'd probably be getting a Mod Note for adopting a tone as "aggressive" as the one you're showing right now.
And there is hope, but it's always temporary. With any writer, there's a limited window of time, right after they've learned their craft enough not to make rookie mistakes, and right before they start being burned-out old hacks, when they produce good work. It's always a limited window - no writer is worthwhile forever - but what's sad is, more and more, I see writers who are making rookie mistakes at the SAME TIME that they're turning into burned-out old hacks. With rare exceptions, once a writer becomes a Name Brand, they're worthless.