Is Brian Michael Bendis the writer of the decade?!
Question: hi,
some if you may have seen my last question about whether to pick up Amazing Spider-Man or Ultimate Spider-Man. well, i took a look at the newest issue of Amazing Spider-Man and was turned off by it.
i have been collecting Ultimate Spider-Man for 6 years now, but dropped it due to financial reasons, but it is back on my pull list.
so i was thinking, i read Brian Michael Bendis's work on Ultimate Spider-Man and it has been consistently good. his Daredevil stuff was amazing as well. he has been such a consistent writer that i feel either he or Jeph Loeb are the writer of the decade.
what do you think?
Answers: hi,
some if you may have seen my last question about whether to pick up Amazing Spider-Man or Ultimate Spider-Man. well, i took a look at the newest issue of Amazing Spider-Man and was turned off by it.
i have been collecting Ultimate Spider-Man for 6 years now, but dropped it due to financial reasons, but it is back on my pull list.
so i was thinking, i read Brian Michael Bendis's work on Ultimate Spider-Man and it has been consistently good. his Daredevil stuff was amazing as well. he has been such a consistent writer that i feel either he or Jeph Loeb are the writer of the decade.
what do you think?
Bendis rocks ! Apart from his excellent scripting he is also a great guy.I met him at a comic convention in 2004 and he signed every comic i had and was so friendly and down to earth.He lays sub plots in various issues that come into fruition months later.All his story's are premeditated action adventure and drama mixed with humour
Bendis. Loeb has written a lot of stuff i've really enjoyed, but he's definately been more hit and miss while Bendis has, in my mind, been much more consistent.
That being said, my FAVORITES would probably be Ed Brubaker or Matt Fraction.
I don't think any author who is known primarily for work on comic books is going to be considered "writer of the decade." Some comic book stories do qualify as real literature, but neither Bendis nor Loeb have written anything that comes close to transcending the genre yet.
There's more to life than comics.
Loeb has had one or two good things in his career, but really, there's a substantial amount of overrated crap there, as well (Did you read Ultimates vol 3? Ugh)
Bendis is pretty consistently good, but not flawless. His Daredevil run is legendary, Ultimate Spider-Man has ups and downs, New Avengers is entertaining but not all it's cracked up to be, Powers went completely askew, House of M was an over-hyped disappointment, The Pulse never lived up to its promise, his Ult. X-Men was garbage, and his best indie work (Torso, Jinx) is ten years behind him.
My personal choice for writer of the decade would be Brian K. Vaughan. I would say Warren Ellis, but he's consistently late with almost everything he touches. Vaughan has shown that he's versatile and magnificent. Y-The Last Man was his magnum opus, and lightning struck twice with Ex Machina. Pride of Baghdad was beauty on paper, and got a substantial amount of praise and attention from the general public, not just those in comics circles. Runaways was one of the freshest books Marvel's done this millennium, he made Dr. Strange good again (in a solo title), his Ult. X-Men was good, and he has some excellent lesser appreciated pieces like The Hood and The Escapists. His upcoming LOGAN miniseries with Eduardo Risso looks like magic, and will probably be the first Wolverine story I've cared about since I was a kid.
edit: ^^^ jfglade, I think it's pretty clear the question was asking about who's the best COMIC writer of the decade. That's why the question is in Comics and Animation, and not under Books.
There's more to life than Yahoo! Answers, too, ya know, Top Contributor ;)
While his workd on Daredevil was stellar, his work on other titles like New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, etc tend to be hit and miss.
I think it was because DD was more self-contained and with other titles that can spread into the MU itself it can lead into a huge powderkeg that can blow up in bad ways. Much like his Avengers Disassembled, and even in small ways the House of M.
A writer needs to be consistently good on most if not all his titles to be considered for writer of the decade and Bendis hasn't done that and if this Secret Invasion stuff falls flat......
I'm more of a Ed Brubaker fan myself.
sorry. I'm having problems with YA.