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Name five comic book writers better than Mark Waid.
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Me
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>>155550684
Mark is a pretty good writer he's just dickbag person online.
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>>155550684
Do they have to be cape writers?
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>>155550684
He's terrible.
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>>155550775
Sure. Start with that.
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>>155550684
Alan Moore
Grant Morrison
Alex Ross
Mike Allred
Darwyn Cooke

>>155550771
Also me!
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Hiromi Arakawa
Kentaro Miura
Masamune Shiro
Naoki Urasawa
Junji Ito
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>>155550684
Chuck Dixon
Greg Pak
Peter Anthony David
Mike Carey
Peter Milligan
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>>155551131
I think we should keep it US-comic market. The market that Mark Waid swims in.
You easily can get better writers from /a/ or Europe.
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>>155550774
The guy got a republican Iraq war vet fired for the crime of making an edgy joke about him on facebook.
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>>155550684
Chuck Austen for humanizing the mutants
Rob Liefeld for defining the 90s instead of Waids silver age nostalgia slop
Bill Jemas for bold philosophy driven storytelling whereas Waids daredevil is utterly simplistic
Frank Miller because he's not a corporate shill like Waid is
Dan DiDio because his work on O.M.A.C. and the New 52 proves he understoood character stakes and status-quo shifts way better than Waid could ever dream of

That's just 5 way better than Waid, you could make a longer list
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>>155550684
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>>155551248
You'd think Waid would be able to take edgy jokes.
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>>155552476
Damn nigga read comics
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>>155551248
based
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>>155550684
>>155550943
Alan Moore
Kurt Busiek
J.M. DeMatteis
Roger Stern
Grant Morrison
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Mark Waid is currently writing a Justice League run so boring that I have not seen a single person talk about it, online or otherwise
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>>155553606
I never even heard of that.
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Finger.

Dini.

O'Neil.

Dixon.

McDuffie.

Kirby.

This is six but no way am I leaving the king out.
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>>155550684
>Name five comic book writers better than Mark Waid.
>Captain America edition
>Stan Lee
>Jack Kirby
>Steve Englehart
>Mark Gruenwald
>Rob Liefeld

They're not Cap writers, but it'll really make Waid's day to say Scott Lobdell and Bob Harras too.
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>>155550684
Cristian "cwc" Weston Chandler cpu godess blueheart the true and honest mayor of cwcville
geoff johns
grant morrison
johnathan hickman
robert kirkman
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>>155550684
DeMattis
Moore
David
Busiek
Priest
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>no one named more recent writers
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Darwyn Cooke
Roger Stern
J. M. Dematteis
Ed Brubaker
Mike Carey
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>>155557835
Better to go with safe picks because even if a modern writer is good you'll have some contrarian faggot snob insisting he's not
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>>155557835
Why would we? Waid isn't a recent writer and the best writers are all older.
If you want people to list modern writers ask something like:
>Name the worst 5 writers that are better than Mark Waid.
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>>155550684
Mark Millar
Christopher Priest when he's not doing contractually obligated Black characters
Donny Cates before the car accident
JM DeMatteis
Kurt Busiek
Dan Abnett
Geoff Johns (despite the controversy)
I'd throw in Alan Moore but I haven't actually read anything from him since we entered the 21st century.
Kneel Gayman-despite the babysitter buggery, I still like Sandman and some of his other stuff

And that's just superhero comics.

I like Mark Waid
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>>155557967
>I'd throw in Alan Moore but I haven't actually read anything from him since we entered the 21st century.
Top Ten and Tom Strong are among my favorite cape comics from the 2000s.
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>>155551131
>Hiromi
It's HiromU you tourist.
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>>155551131
>>155558210
Also Shiro is spelt with a W at the end.
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>>155557967
>Geoff Johns (despite the controversy)
What controversy?
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>>155558276
Not anything sexual or political, just kind of fumbling DC post-Rebirth

Also the inconsistent quality of DC movies when he was supposed to be DC's answer to Kevin Feige which is still partially his fault despite the mess that is Warner Bros
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>>155558094
I'll check those books out. Thansk
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DeMatteis
David
DeFalco
Davis
Dezago
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>>155557835
look:

mark russel
charles soule
gerry duggan
greg pak
rick remender
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>>155551131
Kek all terrible
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>>155559974
Remender absolutely. The rest? No. Not even remotely. The first two have never written a good comic in their life, they have no right being as bad as they are.
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Me.
The person reading this.
Op.
That girl you had a crush on in highschool.
The cashier at the last convenience store you shopped at.
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>>155559994
No, they're just not comic book writers.
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>>155550684
Why is he purple?
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>>155551212
None of these guys are better than me.
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>>155561901
Impressive.
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>>155550684
I don't hate Mark, don't get me wrong, but I'm not sure how to feel about DC making him "The" lore guide.

Many writers have openly admitted that when it comes to the current status of DC continuity, it's more or less in his hands + they literally made him multiple minis where he sets straight what is and what isn't canon.

Again, not against DC having a "lore mater", but some of his ideas just aren't sticking with me, and it's getting me worried DC might be giving him to much reign.
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>>155562628
I don't know a whole lot of DC lore but giving it all for one narcissistic fag to preside over and write his idea of it solely is not a good idea.
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>>155563187
Mark Guenwald and Kurt Busiek did it for Marvel in the 80's and 90's, and personally I'd rather Waid do it than Johns, who is probably just as equipped to do it but allied himself with Didio's New52 bullshit and that will forever make him sus to me.
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>>155563205
I guess. If I wrere the company I'd just care more than that but whatever.
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>>155560133
>The cashier at the last convenience store you shopped at.
Nah, he's a hack.
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>>155550684
Kirby, Moore, Morrison, McDuffie and Miller
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>>155550684
The man behind the slaughter
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>>155550684
>Geoff Johns
>Scott Snyder
>Kelly Thompson
>Deniz Camp
>Dan Jurgens
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>>155550684
What's his best comic?
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>>155565395
Kingdom Come, because it was all Alex Ross ideas.
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>>155565395
Beats me. I haven't enjoyed anything he's written.
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>>155561121
He's evolving.
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>>155550684
Alan Moore
Neil Gaiman
Rick Remender
Mike Carey
Marjorie Liu
Mike Baron
Warren Ellis
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>>155550774
>>155550775
Waid's good at writing superhero comics, terrible at anything else. At Crossgren he tried his hand at detective fiction where he fully revealed himself as a "smart people are indistinguishable from wizards" tier writer.
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>>155560709
Manga is comic books you retard.
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>>155561901
>>155560042
Jeff Parker
Cullen Bunn
Peter J. Tomasi
Christos Gage
Andy Diggle
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>>155550684
Five monkeys locked in a room with a laptop. Waid is a fucking retard
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>>155569909
>Crossgren
Crossgen kind of sucked in general, everything felt pre-packaged to be designed as movie/TV pitches, they always drew characters to look slightly like actors that could be cast in an inevitable adaptation, whole line just felt like existed to be soft pitches for movie and TV.
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>>155573148
Well yeah, Alessi admitted that there was no possible way for them to be a profitable comics company with artists as salaried employees, and the plan was to hold out for at least six years until they could finally make money with tv/film deals. I give them credit for trying this as a multiverse with no superheroes whatsoever instead of being Image 2.0.
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>>155550684
Why does /co/ hate Waid now?
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>>155574541
Why not?
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>>155550684
No.
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>>155550684
i...i cant...
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>>155550684
why so purple?
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>>155550684
Jackie Chan
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I legitimately think Alex Ross is a better writer than Waid.
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>>155566418
Ross hates Kingdom Come, because he feels Waid twisted and ruined his ideas.
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>>155550684
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alan Moore
Grant Morrison
Jaime Hernandez
Dwayne McDuffie
Darwyn Cooke (that makes six)
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>>155550684
Bendis
Bendis
Bendis
Bendis
Bendis
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>>155579126
First obviously wrong answer.
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>>155573864
The problem is you have to do comics with cool looking characters that people will want to have merchandise of, all the Crossgen characters were boring, nothing "toyetic" about them.
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Lets see,
Alan Moore, Alex Ross, Jack Kirby, Garth Ennis and Stan Lee.



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