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Post by Philip Ayres on May 31, 2012 21:31:56 GMT
So, as per The Top Five Comic Artists Thread we pick a comic series/character each week and pick our top five and see how they change as they go: We need to play catch up so separate lists for your top five writers for Batman & Captain America please. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 31, 2012 21:39:14 GMT
BATMAN
1 Frank Miller
2 Denny O'Neill
3 Alan Moore
4 Grant Morrison
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You can tell from that which Batman trades I havre ?;-)
CAPTAIN AMERICA
1 Ed Brubaker: I never imagined anyone could make Cap a must read title
2 JM DeMattis: the run which was going when I started reading comics
3 Roger Stern: short run, but superb
4 Mike Carlin: another short run, following DeMattis. First writer to use the modern Captain Britain in a US comic
5 Mark Grunwald: a long run, spoiled by Mark insistance that Cap would never use a gun.
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Post by Jim on May 31, 2012 22:17:59 GMT
Batman:
Same problem for me as with coming up with artists:
1. Frank Miller.
I distinctly remember a short B&W Warren Ellis story which I thought captured Batman well, so that can be an honourable mention.
Captain America:
1. Roger Stern (only recently read this, might be rating it high due to short memory. Great stuff though)
2. Mark Waid
3. Ed Brubaker
4. Steve Englehart
5. Mark Gruenwald
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2012 10:08:24 GMT
Week 3: Judge Dredd
I'll total the previous weeks when Team Scotland get back, vote and tell me how the system works.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 9, 2012 13:02:03 GMT
Week 1 Batman
1 - Alan Grant
2 - Denny O'Neill
3 - Bill Finger
4 - Frank Miller
5 - Mike W. Barr
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 9, 2012 13:03:20 GMT
Week 2 - Captain America
1 - Ed Brubaker
2 - Mark Waid
3 - Roger Stern
4 - Mark Gruenwald
5 - Steve Englehart.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 9, 2012 13:05:02 GMT
Week 3 - Judge Dredd
1 - John Wagner
2 - Alan Grant
3 - Gordon Rennie
4 - Pat Mills
5 - Garth Ennis
Had it been books as well I would have selected David Bishop.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 13, 2012 17:32:42 GMT
Wagner, Grant and Mills. Some decent efforts from other chaps to be sure , but they are the definitive Dredd writers.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 15, 2012 23:55:17 GMT
Bumped. Cos I think we'll need this for this week.....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 16, 2012 20:49:35 GMT
So .... top 5 X-Men writers....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 17, 2012 19:23:09 GMT
1) Chris Claremont: For years this man WAS the X-men. At his best when paired with a strong artist. Yes his later work isn't so good but....
2) Grant Morrison: the only man to do anything original and creative post Claremont
3) Len Wein: Giant Size X-Men 1. Nuff Said.
4) Steven Seagle: Super X-Men run cut short. some decent characters used who got thrown in the bin for an attempt to push the reset button on the team
5) Chuck Austin: No hear me out. Yes the latter stages of Austin's run wasn't so good. Draco etc, his real beef with the church dominating the writing. But making the Juggernaut a hero ("I'm going to live in a Mansion"), bringing Northstar in (and having him fancy the very straight Iceman), bringing Havok back and pairing him with someone other than Polaris was all fab work. It's just a shame it all went wrong.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 17, 2012 19:41:12 GMT
Grant Morrison, for being the only writer who has ever taken X-Men beyond generic soap (albeit enjoyable at times) or Readable Tosh.
Jason Aaron, for making X-Men funny.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 17, 2012 19:50:11 GMT
Oh yeah, Aaron's stint on Wolverine & The X-Men deserves a mention
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 17, 2012 20:00:52 GMT
1 - Chris Claremont - (1st run) nuff said really.
2 - Grant Morrison - reinvigorated the series, a real shot in the arm.
3 - Jason Aaron - Wolverine and the X-Men has been great fun.
4 - Steven T Seagle - for the same reasons Phil said.
5 - Scott Lobdell - would have loved what he could have done without editorial interference - but his quiet issues, usually after the event stuff were lovely.
Bubbling under - Alan Davis - much maligned and unfairly so.
Andy
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Post by Jim on Jul 18, 2012 10:14:11 GMT
1) Chris Claremont - pretty much inarguable.
2) Jason Aaron - absolutely loving Wolverine and the X-Men.
3) Peter Milligan - for X-Statix.
4) Grant Morrison - lots of great ideas in there, but for me it went off the rails the issue following the (brilliant) Xorn reveal. House of M should forever be hated if only for undoing the fascinating set-up Morrison gave us.
5) Roy Thomas. Would really like to see what he could have done with a longer run.
Bubbling under:
Steven T Seagle's run could have been an interesting one. Joe Kelly was similarly short-changed.
Fabian Nicieza. Peter David. Mike Carey.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 18, 2012 10:42:29 GMT
If I'd expanded it to the X franchise as a whole I would have included Peter David in a heartbeat.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 18, 2012 12:19:11 GMT
I mentioned it in Artists but Byrne deserves some credit for his input into the writing while he was artist.
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Post by legios on Jul 18, 2012 19:30:00 GMT
1. Chris Claremont - for his original run, whether he should have come back to the franchise is another question.
2. Grant Morrison - writer of one of the definite X-Men runs and a master at skewering some of the X-cliches into the bargain.
3. Jason Aaron - brought the sense of fun that early Excaliber had to an X-Men book, and more power to him.
4. Le Wein for getting the all-new, all-different team off to their start.
And I shall abstain on a fifth - I was awol from the School for too long to feel qualified to render an opinion.
Karl
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