Good story. I didn't really want to get into this with you. There was some confusion, and I offered some advice for disambiguation. Take it or leave it in your threads. It's not worth playing "yuh-huh, nuh-uh" over who's right.
If I were to break it down like Digi said, I'd probably separate it in to things like scope, dialogue etc.
Scope would be Morrison. No writer in this day and age thinks on the same level he does, or as abstractly, imo. Honourable mentions would be guys like Mack, or Gaiman.
Dialogue? I'd have to go for someone like Whedon. He's what Bendis should be, in that he writes realistic dialogue without sacrificing characterisation. Honourable mentions would be guys like Morrison, Johns and Gillen.
General storytelling? Guys like Byrne, Claremont back in the day, Johns right now, Morrison too. Jason Aaron when he finds a character that suits him, is awesome.
Revamping/referencing: Johns. I don't think any writer alive can take a stupid concept, or an old concept, and give it a new lick of paint and a modernised spin as well as Johns can. His work on GL alone is indicative of that, imo.
Favourite writers right now? Gillen, Hopeless, Aaron, Johns, Simone.
People are mentioning Whedon when he completely and utterly killed Runaways. He had a good X-Men run and just about everything else he's written has been garbage in my opinion
I'm not seeing any mentions of Remender and while some of his stuff might not be for everyone he's basically one of the two writers that are keeping me in Marvel nowadays.
When you bring up I'm not really a fan of his Superboy stuff, at all.
I'm not familiar with Snyder's stuff really.
Only read Batman (overrated trash imo) and American Vampire (still enjoying this).
I'm surprised you don't like Morrison's New x-men stuff though? As it's basically the only one I've read, outside of the latter New X-Men stuff, where the x-kids felt realistic. [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Not enough Wolverine feats?
His Ghost Rider and X-Men run have been fairly lackluster. I wouldn't even call them bad but we're discussing the absolutely best comics here. His Punisher run was good but both Rucka and Hurwitz blow him out of the water
Imo Scalped is the only comic that lets him compete here.
Stan Lee's stuff might be dated to read now, but no writer ever changed the industry like he did (though he had lots of assistance from the king, Jack Kirby.)
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Jack Kirby hardly gets mentioned these days when Stan Lee gets brought up, Its always he created all these characters....pretty sure he had from other people.
Aaron didn't even have anything to do with Vicious Cycle, That was Daniel Way he basically started off that Ghost Rider run and then Jason Aaron took over around issue #20.
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