Jim Shooter - Head of Marvel (between 1978 and 1987) was a bit of a hardass and attempted to create 'The New Universe' a more realistic take upon Super-powers. It failed. He's occasionally parodied by DC , whom gained the most from Shooters editorial style.
Grant Morisson; Mad Scotsman, with a taste for human blood. Famed for his over the top, Blok buster story telling, and for his use of inexplicable technobabel (such as energy converting spoon). Accoladed with the immense ability of putting the Bad, in 'badass', well known runs include the third volume of J.L.A. in the 90's, the New X-men of the early 00's, the Invisibles, Kid Eternity, Judge Dredd,Arkham Asylum, Animal Man and the Doom Patrol. Recent runs include D.C.'s Seven soldiers of Victory, WE3 (A comic book about super, cyborg pets), 52 (In which he basically wrote all the best bits), Batman and Allstar Superman. Has won various awards, and his generally hailed as the comic book answer to Vincent van Gough, i.e. and absolute genius but completely and utterly 'off his head'. Recently signed a deal with D.C. comics, after being ****ed over by Marvel
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Last edited by Doctor Miracle on Jun 23rd, 2007 at 08:45 PM
Hmm. We should try to standardize this kinda like the tiers thread. We'd have to remove some occasional bias, and I wouldn't pin it like the tiers thing...but it would be nice to, say, have a list of writers and the titles they have written or are currently writing.
In any case, someone should start compiling these so that we can add to them, rather than just have writer bios scattered randomly throughout the thread.
I'll add a few of my own eventually if no one else takes them (Gaiman, Ellis, Starlin, etc.) but there's others who could do it just as well probably.
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Jack Kirby: Legendary artist, refered to as 'The king'. He, Martin Goodman, and Stan Lee are the fathers of Marvel Comics, but Kirby is best known for his work in DC. Kirby created Galactus, Captain America, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the original X-Men, the Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Galactus, The Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans and their hidden city of Attilan, and the Black Panther — comics' first known Black superhero — and his African nation of Wakanda. Later, in the 1970s, Kirby went back to DC and created what many consider his magnum opus. A collection of titles known as 'The Fourth World' Unfortunately, the Fourth World stopped before it could be finished. And the titles were brought into the main DCU. Kirby also created Omac, Kamandi, the silver age Sandman and the Demon aka Etrigan.
He later did some designs for tv shows like Thundarr the barbarian. He is best remembered for creations like Darkseid the Destroyer, Orion, Mr. Miracle, Captain America, Namor the submariner and others.
The character Dan Turpin, who also was originally created by kirby, was turned into a tribute to him in the Superman animated series. Turpin was killed by Darkseid's Omega Effect in 'Apokolips...Now!' The episode was dedicated to Jack Kirby. Kirby has also received a tribute in the new teenage mutant ninja turtles cartoons.
Even today, Jack Kirby's futuristic designs and innovative ideas, are still regarded as among the greatest works in the history of comics.
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Last edited by TricksterPriest on Jun 24th, 2007 at 08:29 AM
Man you know your ****. Yeah people know who Jim Shooter is but not everybody knows about the New Universe back in the day, thats going quite awhile back.
Thats probably why it failed he tried to make it more realistic.
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Last edited by Deadline on Jun 24th, 2007 at 08:23 AM
Garth Ennis - Irish (North to be exact) , usually does work on 'human' characters and involves a lot of black humour and noir-ish feelings . Dislikes religion . His work is like Marmite, either you love it or you hate it.
Fabian Nicieza- American, best known for his work on X-Men and X-related titles, and the Thunderbolts. His most well known creation, along with Liefeld, is the Merc with a mouth: Deadpool. He's set to right the upcoming JSA Classified, due out in July.
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