Comic Geek Poll #2: Favorite Writer

[EliSnow]

<p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">We've discussed the best comics story, let's vote on the our favorite comics writer.&nbsp; I'll have to go with Warren Ellis as my favorite writer (my name should be a give-away) although I think that Alan Moore is probably the best writer.&nbsp;&nbsp;List your votes.&nbsp;&nbsp; And don't bitch about who was left out.&nbsp; I only have nine options (the tenth being Other) that means a bunch of names have to be left off.</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="3">I fucked up and left Gaiman out originally.&nbsp; He's in there now.</font></p>
<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by EliSnow on 7-5-06 @ 5:49 PM</span>

[Don Stugots]

i like Alan Moor and Frank Miller so i voted OTHER since i couldnt make up my mind.&nbsp; i assume that poll #3 will be artists?&nbsp; that should be one fine debate.

[booster11373]

Warren Ellis gets my vote for Planetary alone

[JustJon]

<p>Where's Neil?</p><p>And before anyone else can say it, Tori, he's hangin' with the Dream King&nbsp;</p>

[EliSnow]

<strong>STUGOTS1</strong> wrote:<br />i assume that poll #3 will be artists?&nbsp; that should be one fine debate. <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Yes, it will be, and that's definitely going to be a hard one.</font></p>

[EliSnow]

<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>Where's Neil?</p><p>And before anyone else can say it, Tori, he's hangin' with the Dream King&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Okay, that's a fuck-up. I'll edit it to have him in there, because he should be.</font></p>

[Furtherman]

Joe Bazooka.

[Sheeplovr]

<p>its imposible to have these polls </p><p>i cant choose</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[kdubya]

<strong>booster11373</strong> wrote:<br />Warren Ellis gets my vote for Planetary alone <p>I almost went Ellis but went for Vaughn. He has a lot more out there right now, and I think overall his stuff is tops.Ex Machina and Y The Last Man are awsome.</p><p>My biggest complaint with Ellis, and maybe it isn't even him, but Planetary comes out maybe 3 times a year. But as a concept it is hard to beat. </p><p><img src="http://xs103.xs.to/xs103/06274/PlanetaryCVR19.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>If anyone ever does a best cover contest, Planetary #19 is my favorite hands down</p>

[PhishHead]

Ellis because of transmet<br />

[EliSnow]

<strong>kdubya</strong> wrote: <p>My biggest complaint with Ellis, and maybe it isn't even him, but Planetary comes out maybe 3 times a year. But as a concept it is hard to beat. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I think he got really sick for awhile which accounted for some of the lateness, but definitely not all of it.</font></p>

[DarkHippie]

I went with Ennis cause of Hitman and the Pro.&nbsp; And Preacher.&nbsp; Oh, and he did some good stuff with the Demon too.

[Gvac]

<p>What, no Stan Lee?</p><p>You young punks have no sense of history!&nbsp;</p>

[TheMojoPin]

Ed Brubaker is the fuckin' man right now.

[kdubya]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><p>What, no Stan Lee?</p><p>You young punks have no sense of history!&nbsp;</p><p>Dude, great call</p>

[DirtyJersey]

<strong>TheMojoPin</strong> wrote:<br />Ed Brubaker is the fuckin' man right now. <p>I agree, those Cap books kicked ass, but I had to go with Bendis just because of Ultimate Spider-Man and The New Avengers. He rarely disappoints.</p>

[Sheeplovr]

<p><span class="postbody"> Bendis just because of Ultimate Spider-Man and The New Avengers. He rarely disappoints.</span></p><p>wha wha wahaaa</p>I
was so dissapointed by ultimate spiderman i tried it out for a while
its painfull to read i hold it in my hands going why did i buy this is
crap and the art looks like a kid drew it<br />
<p>&nbsp;</p>

[EliSnow]

<strong>Sheeplovr</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><span class="postbody">Bendis just because of Ultimate Spider-Man and The New Avengers. He rarely disappoints.</span> <p>&nbsp;</p><p>wha wha wahaaa</p>I was so dissapointed by ultimate spiderman i tried it out for a while its painfull to read i hold it in my hands going why did i buy this is crap and the art looks like a kid drew it<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I have to disagree with you Sheepy.&nbsp; Until recently I really, really liked Ultimate Spider-man, both in terms of writng and the art.&nbsp;&nbsp; I also think Bendis was great on Daredevil (although Brubaker is exceeding even that) and is incredible on Powers, which still may be his best work.&nbsp; He also writes a very funny letters section at the end of each Powers issue.</font></p><p><font face="Arial" size="3">Back to my pick of Ellis, I went with him, not only for Planetary, but also his work on Hellblazer, Stormwatch, Authority (which changed comics a great deal and led to the Ultimates), NextWave, among a host of other stories.&nbsp; Frank Miller may have been the no. 1 if the Dark Knight Strikes Back and All-Star Batman wasn't as bad as they were.</font></p>

[JustJon]

<p>I call shennanigans.&nbsp; The poll was edited, making the prior votes for #8 not only invalidated but strangely transferrable.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font size="1" face="verdana" color="black">What, no Stan Lee?</font></p><p>You ever go back and reread those Stan Lee books?&nbsp; He was good at creating characters, but those books generally excelled after he left them.&nbsp;</p>

[EliSnow]

<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I call shennanigans.&nbsp; The poll was edited, making the prior votes for #8 not only invalidated but strangely transferrable.</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Although I may be wrong, I believe that when I edited the poll (which was soon after starting the poll), no one had voted for #8 (which was Kurt Busieck) so I did not believe that inserting Neil Gaiman instead would affect anything.</font></p>

[klaus_kinski_Jr]

Am I only one who loved Geoff Johns run on JSA. I stopped picking it up once the stoe I went to closed. Keep meaning to grab the trades.

[EliSnow]

<strong>klaus_kinski_Jr</strong> wrote:<br />Am I only one who loved Geoff Johns run on JSA. I stopped picking it up once the stoe I went to closed. Keep meaning to grab the trades. <p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Nope.&nbsp; I loved it too.&nbsp; I think Geoff is the best writer at DC mainstream (as opposed to the writers at Vertigo).&nbsp;&nbsp; He definitely can write Silver Age type stories with modern sensibilities and styles.&nbsp; </font></p>

[JustJon]

<p>I've been picking up the JSA trades as they come out.&nbsp; Good stuff.&nbsp; Some of his otehr stuff falls a little short for me, though.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And what's&nbsp; wrong with Kurt Busiek?<br /></p>

[suggums]

the one that writes all the hentai<br />

[EliSnow]

<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>And what's&nbsp; wrong with Kurt Busiek?<br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Nothing.&nbsp; I think he's a great writer, and loved him on the Avengers.&nbsp; I just thought of all the other writers, I'd take him off.&nbsp; Plus he had no votes at the time.</font></p>

[kdubya]

<strong>JustJon</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><font face="verdana" color="#000000" size="1">What, no Stan Lee? </font><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You ever go back and reread those Stan Lee books?&nbsp; He was good at creating characters, but those books generally excelled after he left them.&nbsp;</p><p>I agree, he was more of a creator than writer.</p><p>I would also like to add Dave Sim and Jeff Smith to the discusion.</p><p><img src="http://xs303.xs.to/xs303/06274/bone.jpg" border="0" /></p><p><a href="http://xs30/"></a></p><p><img height="410" src="http://xs303.xs.to/xs303/06274/cerebus.jpg" width="326" border="0" /></p>

[sr71blackbird]

<p><img height="600" src="http://www.x-men.pl/previews/wolverine_24.jpg" width="400" border="0" /></p><p>I voted Mark Millar.&nbsp; Enemy of the State was fuckin awesome!</p><p>I also use to love the Fantastic Four with John Byrne writing and drawing.</p>

[sr71blackbird]

Good call on Dave Sim too!&nbsp; Cerebus was one of my all time favorites too for a few years.

[Gmann]

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>No Chris Claremont ??</p>

[MadMatt]

<p><font size="2">I was really torn on this one, but finally went with Warren Ellis.&nbsp; I picked up The Authority on a lark and thought it was one of the best reads ever.&nbsp; After that I started picking up all of his stuff.</font></p><p><font size="2">Another writer I thought about was J. Michael Strazynski.&nbsp; However, he can't always maintain brilliance through the entirety of a project.</font> </p>

[EliSnow]

<strong>Gmann</strong> wrote:<br /><p>&nbsp;</p><p>No Chris Claremont ??</p><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">I thought about Claremont as well as John Byrne, but with both, although they have created some incredible stories (Claremont with Uncanny X-Men and Byrne with Superman and the Fantastic Four), most of their stuff in the last 10-15 years has been crap.</font>

[kdubya]

<strong>sr71blackbird</strong> wrote:<br />Good call on Dave Sim too!&nbsp; Cerebus was one of my all time favorites too for a few years. <p>Sim may never have the mainstream stroke of the dudes listed here, but what he did is pretty damn impressive. No one else in comics, that I am aware of, has ever commited them self to such an undertaking of storytelling.</p>

[DirtyJersey]

Just read the latest Uncanny X-Men and Ed Brubaker is quickly becoming one of my favorite writers.