Oh I totally get your complaints and I really didn't intend to come off as dismissive of your opinions on the subject. I can see why people would dislike his work, and I'll admit that there are ones I'm not to fond of either. That Fury satire series, for example, or that comedy series Adventures of the Rifle Brigade (which was intended as a parody of British warcomics like Commando). Or large chunks of Preacher.

I can see why people like them, and I admit that he seems to like a lot of the same kinds of films that I grew up watching, but I do understand that a lot of the themes carried over are hella problematic in some cases (rewatching the early Bond films for example... sheesh).

I suppose that the question becomes whether he's homaging something, or is just writing something in the same style of as another piece of media that he liked... although I personally think that there is a marked difference in his writing from earlier in his carrier compared to now, for example.

As said elsewhere, it really seems to boil down to whether he's writing something that he personally finds interesting or not. Hence, his Dan Dare, Shadow etc stories are generally high quality, while stuff written because he was hired to write something in the vein of Preacher... Yeah.