I disagree with the statement about Grant Morrison. If anything, he was too creative. It took multiple readings to understand what exactly was going on.
Morrison did the brilliant run on New X-Men before reload. Although there were two factions about it. Those that liked it, those that hated it. However one must agree, Morrison is a good writer, unlike Austen, who turns out nigh unreadable tripe in every endeavor.
Austen has some great ideas at times, which is really too bad, because his execution of said ideas sucks something fierce. He worked on Uncanny before reload, and on X-Men afterwards, though he's left now, and Milligan (of former X-Statix notoriety) has taken over as of #166. Austen's scripting is shit, his characterization is shit, he survives only on the wings of talented artists that get paired with him (i.e. Larroca) and .25 cent promo issues.
While we're on the subject of craptastic X-writers, god, Claremont, retire already. You did great work...20 years ago. Now it's time for grandpa to get in the wheel chair, and never, ever, think about leaving it. If he never touched another writing implement in his life, the heavens would sing joyous praise.
Yes, I'll usually take Claremont over Austen. One of Austen's main problems is, he can't write women at all. Now, I don't know, maybe he is some sort of sex god and women routinely rip off their shirts and throw themselves upon him, but on average, that doesn't happen to any man on the planet besides Hugh Heffner. Take his arc, King Hyperion on the Exiles. Carol Danvers/Warbird/Ms. Marvel/what-have-you, basically throws herself on top of him in a flurry of horrid sexual innuendos and entendre's. Then at some point her shirt is really ripped off and their relationship is...erm...consummated.
WTF Austen? That doesn't happen!
At least Claremont was good a few decades ago. Even if he is "Bootay totally spaz!" Now.
For more Austen-inspired female "etiquette," I direct you to UXM #435...
"She-Hulk says that she is a Yankee and Giant’s fan and that Matsui should have been Rookie of the year in her opinion before smirking and asking Cain what his opinion on women’s rights is. Cain smiles back.
Later still, in what is possibly a hotel room, the bed legs are broken, and the bed crashed to the cracked floor. The bedside table has been knocked over, the wall-hanging is tilted, while the wall itself has what is possibly a crack from a fist-punch in it. Lying on the bed with the She-Hulk next to him, Cain says ‘Sometimes women are just plain better than men’."
Actually, She-Hulk shacking up with someone on a whim isn't so out of character, I direct you to the first few issues of her current series where she is, quite plainly, a massive party animal.
The real problem for that with me, was that it was Shulkie and Cain, she made a big deal in Heroes For Hire that she doesn't date Cons, when she and Luke Cage had a fling. Even if he was "reformed" Cain still had a long way to go, whereas Cage had been wrongly convicted in the first place, and was far from a crook. Also, the whole pseudo-intellectual thing was just a crock. "Yes, my beloved of 15 minutes, lets discuss politics and world problems while snuggling after a night of voracious meta-human love making."
Though we both find it to be crap for different reasons, it is crap all the same.
Yeah. Oh well, he's off to ruin greener pastures, as Marvel's changed it's policy and he feels that he can no longer work to his full creative output under said new policies. Good riddance I say.
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