Who would you consider the quintessential comic writer?Pic unrelated. Roger Stern is my pick. He can write most characters he’s given to some level of competency, multiple of them exceptionally, and his plots are almost always interesting.
>>154705578Alan Moore for me.He's got a good balance of serial adventure and preoccupation with formalism. He's written for strips, anthologies, graphic novels and floppies, mainstream and small press. His stories tend to be riveting and heavy-hitting, injecting humor and horror in satisfying ways. As for superheroes, he's done both straightforward and revisionist stories very well.
>>154705578Will Eisner
>>154705578>Roger SternStern is a good choice. He had a lot of solid runs on a lot of books/characters I like. Definitely my favorite Spider-man run, certainly.
>>154707024He's more of a good artist than a strong writer.I've read A Contract With God and about 12 issues of the Kitchen Sink reprints of The Spirit, and the only story that comes to mind is the main one from A Contract With God.
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>>154705578Charles Schulz
>>154707446As a whole, A Contract with God is kinda overrated. The Name of the Game, To the Heart of the Storm and a Family Matter are Eisner's top melodramas.
>>154707018lol
>>154705578Who knows
>>154705578>Pic unrelated.Why did you post that hack then?>>154707018This
>>154707018Yeah. He should be the bar, not the peak.
Gaimen.
>>154705578My Mount Rushmore is>Stan Lee>Alan Moore>Marv WolfmanThe grandfathers of cape comics, and the reasons why most people love comics
Ryan North hasn't missed yet for me. They wrote up unbeatable squirrel girl and some solid power rangers.
>>154711839>they
>>154711839>Meme girl and power rangersDid you read them with your chicken tendies?
>>154711839I haven't read anything good by him.
>>154707018No other writer has the range to do both From Hell & Tom Strong
>>154712659Marvel rivals players are valid
>>154705578Chris Claremont
>>154714325No they're not
I want to give credit to Fabian Niceieza. He was alllllllriiiiiiiiiiight
>>154705578Roy Thomas! :D
>>154711369>carelessly sold Angela to MarvelNot a real comic writer.
>>154715179Favorite non REH Conan writer.
Kurt Busiek should have become a more influential and prominent architect at marvel and not Bendis.
>>154715961If only we were so fortunate.
>>154716872Just think of it. No disassembled. No civil war. No unchecked decompression because comics are trying to be movies.
>>154705578Chris Claremont is like the ideal form of a superhero comic writer to me. Endearingly terrible and overwritten dialogue and prose, memorable catchphrases, Wild and exciting and weird as fuck plot-lines, great characters and relationship drama, always finds a way to insert his fetishes into the story. He's everything you could want out of this genre.
>>154705578I'm mainly going to speak in regards to Superhero comics because they have the most to have a particular feel where as other genres can run a variety of styles.First and foremost, most endearingly, Mark Gruenwald. I consider him the quintessential comic fan-turned writer. He cares about comics as a format, the qualities of superhero comics as a serial medium made by multiple contributors, and was all about keeping things exciting and fresh while being true to the characters. And frankly I think there's a joy to his work where you can tell he liked writing these characters. Others who I think are quintessential cape comic writers: Steve Englehart: does solid melodrama and the whole cape life/personal life tight rope balance, Chuck Dixon-just solid pulp,Mike Barr: Similar, just a really solid adventure pulp writer. Less endearingly:Roy Thomas. Also a comic historian, very concerned with serial storytelling and continuity, but I find his writing feels more dense and flavorless. I do respect him for stuff like his Conan work which, even if I think his writing was secondary to the art, he's crucial to making Conan in comics. I see him as a facilitator, someone who helped curate comics even if his own writing was underwhelming, but I think for superhero comics being collaborative that role is important too. Negatively: Geoff Johns and Scott Lobdell. Both of which have written stuff I liked, but also I think leaned too much into pa, neutral comics meant just to generate critical hype, a lot of hack work that only served to build up hype that, once over and leading to nothing, feels really empty. Solid character writing, but both needing to feed the beast of events compromised themYes, Bendis is a worse writer, but I wouldn't consider him reflective of superhero comics as a whole, even after his influence on Marvel. If I were to say the quintessential adult European comic writer, it's Enki Bilal. High imaginative concepts, sparse character writing.
>>154707018this for me toojust the right amount of kinoisseur and hack
>>154717753What would you consider Moore's hack work?
>>154717880literally everything made after the 80s
>>154717880just his subject matter generalsuperheros and voodoo and other nonsense like that>>154717930nah
>>154715961>>154716872>>154717031Kurt Busiek is to Marvel as Mark Waid is to DC, both are living encyclopedias of lore and continuity for both companies. Mark Gruenwald was as well, sadly his premature death hurt Marvel a lot, he would've and should've had a more active management and editorial role into the mid-90's if he hadn't died.
>>154705578>Who would you consider the quintessential comic writer?>Roger SternSeconded, with the caveat that we are talking within big two capeshit. Stern knew the characters but was also a master at working within the monthly floppy format before writing for trades, writing something sensationalistic for the sake of it and pushing OC's above everyone else.As far as comics as a medium? That depends on if you define it as just writers or writer/artists. It also depends on if you're talking about just Western or the whole world.
>>154718618What I like about guys like Stern were they were there to tell good stories that were genuine. He introduced a lot of big stuff and had a good few events but he wasn't someone looking to tell a single change the character forever story and then bounce once he got his fame.
Peter David deserved better.
>>154705578I liked Triumph and Torment, but when I read random issues of his Spider-Man (#239), Ghost Rider (#68), Omega the Unknown (#8), and his bit on Death of Superman, they were pretty mediocre.
Michelinie will always be my favorite Spidey writer
Len WeinAlec Holland has a similar appeal as many other monster heroes, but when he became Swamp Thing the simplicity of his struggles gave a lot of room to his supporting cast while still having enough emotional weight to anchor the story.Steve Ditko's work on Spider-Man was also really good. Lee/Ditko Peter Parker is a better version of Mr A.
Wagner and/or Grant can tackle near anything
Zeb Wells.
>>154714337Wolverine and Jean romance is a narative mistep.
>>154719363Nice joke.
>>154720384It was the most interesting part of x men for lonely secretaries
>>154705578Bob Kane creator of Batman
