Oh I understand, it's just I feel these two in particular should be high on any list, Transmetropolitan and Preacher are two fantastic series.BlindMessiah94 said:
I really enjoyed Next Wave : Agents of H.A.T.E.JemJar said:
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I do love Preacher and a few things by Ellis. By no means are they bad authors, they are just not high on my list becauseWolfThomas said:
1) Ellis never finishes anything he starts or takes forever to do so.
2) Ennis has one style of writing and that's all he is good at (The excessively vulgar and mature content). Not that there is anything wrong with that, he does what hes is good at. I just feel other authors are more well rounded.
Still Preacher and Planetary are two of my favourite series.
Alan Moore writes the comics that make me think - I even analyzed Watchmen in my university english class. That shit is deep
Alan Moore - Grandmaster
Neil Gaimen - 1st Disciple
Grant Morrison - Visionary Guru (the new William Burroughs)
Warren Ellis - Brilliant Bastard
Sam Keith - Unique Luminary
Garth Ennis - Priceless Pulp Producer
Frank Miller - Descriptive Demon
Brain K. Vaughn - The Realist
Just personal favorites. Lots of excellent authors I haven't read.
Neil Gaimen - 1st Disciple
Grant Morrison - Visionary Guru (the new William Burroughs)
Warren Ellis - Brilliant Bastard
Sam Keith - Unique Luminary
Garth Ennis - Priceless Pulp Producer
Frank Miller - Descriptive Demon
Brain K. Vaughn - The Realist
Just personal favorites. Lots of excellent authors I haven't read.
For me, just ONE single story can redeem a writeer in my eyes forever, though at least 2/5 of these guys have many favorites.
All of these guys either wrote about the Joker or Harley & Ivy.
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Alex Sinclair.
Andrew Kreisberg.
Bill Willingham.
Chuck Dixon/Graham Nolan.
CJ Henderson.
Dennis O'Neil.
Eddie Campbell/Daren White.
Frank Miller.
Grant Morrison.
Jim Starlin.
Judd Winick.
Karl Kesel.
Kevin Smith (bite me, I like his Batman stuff).
Micheal Green.
Paul Dini.
Tony Bedard.
All of these guys either wrote about the Joker or Harley & Ivy.
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Alex Sinclair.
Andrew Kreisberg.
Bill Willingham.
Chuck Dixon/Graham Nolan.
CJ Henderson.
Dennis O'Neil.
Eddie Campbell/Daren White.
Frank Miller.
Grant Morrison.
Jim Starlin.
Judd Winick.
Karl Kesel.
Kevin Smith (bite me, I like his Batman stuff).
Micheal Green.
Paul Dini.
Tony Bedard.
Brian Azzarello is probably my favourite writer, for Joker, 100 Bullets, and Batman- Broken City. But I do love many, Warren Ellis, Mark Millar, Frank Miller, Grant Morrison, Jeph Loeb, Alan Moore.
It's all about the artwork too, guys worth checking out include Tim Sale, Adi Gradov, Dave McKean, John Romita Jr, Frank Miller again, Jim Lee.
It's all about the artwork too, guys worth checking out include Tim Sale, Adi Gradov, Dave McKean, John Romita Jr, Frank Miller again, Jim Lee.
I agree league of extraordinary gentlemen is also great. I also liked Frank Miller before he got shit same with Jeph Loeb.SnootyEnglishman said:
Well...a real fun guy by the name of Rob Liefeld [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Liefeld] -created- Deadpool, but...you really don't want him as your favourite anything. Current thinking on the internet holds him as somewhat of a comic's version of Uwe Boll, oddly enough they look similar too.marter said:
Seriously...it's eerie:
Liefeld
Boll
Boll
Mark Millar can't decide whether he wants to be Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison, or Warren Ellis. He ends up not being as good as any of them.heyheysg said:
Warren specifically created The Authority with the intent that it be taken over by other writers. He basically told all the stories he wanted to with it. As for Stormwatch, you can't get any more finished than all dead, can you? (The fact that the publishers later resurrected them was not to do with Warren)JemJar said:
As for endings, given that there's a vast quantity of his output which are one volume graphic novels, I'd say he has no real trouble with them. Transmet ended on schedule, Planetary got there in the end, and those are his longest ongoing non-franchise books. (Franchise books aren't really on his shoulders, as they're publisher controlled)
I don't like Mark Millar really. Something about him rubs me the wrong way.
On Topic:
Alan Moore
Neil Gaiman
Brian Azarello and Eduardo Risso
Garth Ennis
Jeph Loeb before he went all crazy and rubbish
Stan Lee
Bob Kane of course
Frank Miller
I suppose Grant Morrison in a pinch.
The problem I have is that so many of the greats went utterly off the rails at some point, which is annoying because they carried on making comics, meaning we get to see all the dis-jointed nonsense they've been spewing.
On Topic:
Alan Moore
Neil Gaiman
Brian Azarello and Eduardo Risso
Garth Ennis
Jeph Loeb before he went all crazy and rubbish
Stan Lee
Bob Kane of course
Frank Miller
I suppose Grant Morrison in a pinch.
The problem I have is that so many of the greats went utterly off the rails at some point, which is annoying because they carried on making comics, meaning we get to see all the dis-jointed nonsense they've been spewing.
I'm not saying he's somehow mentally incapable of drawing a line under a series. I'm saying I felt his endings to Stormwatch and Transmet were both flatly poor.GloatingSwine said:
Given the fact that Stormwatch was a handful of issues into Volume II (which could easily be subtitled: The Post-Bendix Years) the implication of the way that everyone and their mothers came out of the woodwork to die was that the whole thing was rather rushed - putting a capable writer under pressure is a sure-fire way to get a mediocre script in response. There is nothing in the previous handful of issues that give any indication of what's about to happen, and yes, that's almost the point, but given the ending to Transmet was drawn out from plot threads over a year old, you can't deny that Stormwatch's ending has all the finesse of the ubiquitous half-brick-in-a-sock.
On the Authority, arguably the only bit of thought that went into the Stormwatch ending was the sign of things to come with Sparks & co. exiting stage left through a door. For those who've not read it the italics are there to distinguish that thing in your house from a rectangular interdimensional portal.
And whilst Ellis might have intended to hand the Authority over eventually, in the three story arcs he got to write he never had the opportunity to set off into the clearly stated motives of the Authority - being pretty much "to change the world and being able to intervene anywhere anyhow to force the issue if necessary". Other writers, of course, seized on this as a plot hook as is to be expected given the general love of maverick / anti-establishment characters in basically ALL media for decades, if not forever.
Transmet is largely a matter of taste and I don't want to spoiler it so all I'm going to say is that I think of various imaginable ending scenarios I feel that the one he picked was flat-out wrong for the style and tone of the rest of the saga. I love Transmet dearly, but the ending of it just disappointed in ways I'll happily go into in a more private context. To anyone reading this who hasn't read Trans: GO DO SO NOW. Make your own minds up.
