Originally posted by Kris Blaze
Not a single mention of Mark Waid.Buncha noobs.
I would have included Waid if I did a Top 15. His style reminds me a lot of Peter David; good mix of the serious and the quite humourous, and knowing how to mix it.
Alan Moore and Jeph Loeb would be up there if we were doing past writers, but Moore hasn't written anything relevent for years now, while current Loeb is just...ugh.
Originally posted by roughrider
I would have included Waid if I did a Top 15. His style reminds me a lot of Peter David; good mix of the serious and the quite humourous, and knowing how to mix it.Alan Moore and Jeph Loeb would be up there if we were doing past writers, but Moore hasn't written anything relevent for years now, while current Loeb is just...ugh.
What do you mean "relevant"?
Century: 1910 is flawless.
-AC
Originally posted by roughrider
Apart from The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he hasn't impacted on the genre since finishing V For Vendetta 20 years ago.
So? He has Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League and From Hell to his name.
He doesn't need to write a comic again as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, his influence isn't something we should necessarily be thankful for. What HE did was amazing and revolutionary, but it spawned decades of people trying to copy him.
When you consider that Civil War and Blackest Night both take elements from things he's wrote, it shows how unoriginal (Though these stories can still be great) comics currently are.
Anything you consider relevant probably bares a lot of Alan Moore hallmarks.
-AC
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
So? He has Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League and From Hell to his name.He doesn't need to write a comic again as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, his influence isn't something we should necessarily be thankful for. What HE did was amazing and revolutionary, but it spawned decades of people trying to copy him.
When you consider that Civil War and Blackest Night both take elements from things he's wrote, it shows how unoriginal (Though these stories can still be great) comics currently are.
Anything you consider relevant probably bares a lot of Alan Moore hallmarks.
-AC
That's a fair point but I think in the same way Stan Lee may have written hokey but brought in the necessary building blocks for later writers, like we discussed earlier, the same can be applied to Alan Moore for the Modern Comic and the writers today.
Moore may have started them off, but modern writers have built upon this style. Everyone is a copycat of someone but their work should be assessed for what it is, or at least as best as we can.
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
So? He has Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League and From Hell to his name.He doesn't need to write a comic again as far as I'm concerned.
Besides, his influence isn't something we should necessarily be thankful for. What HE did was amazing and revolutionary, but it spawned decades of people trying to copy him.
When you consider that Civil War and Blackest Night both take elements from things he's wrote, it shows how unoriginal (Though these stories can still be great) comics currently are.
Anything you consider relevant probably bares a lot of Alan Moore hallmarks.
-AC
Yes, I know, but we're sticking to current writers now, and the work this past decade. Moore is up there for all time work.