I've recently started getting into comics and I've figured out more or less who writes what I want to read. On the flip side however, I've seen a lot of names jump up every so often that make me feel I should avoid them.
Pic related for example seems to cop a lot of flack on this board, but I can't say I know why. Who are some of the more prominent writers in comics that are best avoiding?
Connor Reyes
Waid.
Parker James
Some Waid is really worth reading, while other Waid is must-avoid-at-all-costs. He has a better track record when he's working at DC than at Marvel though.
Luis Anderson
Mark Waid
Jackson Gutierrez
Waid hasn't been worth shit since the 2000s. Any Waid from the 2010s is beyond bottom-of-the-barrel.
Luke Watson
anyone who works for Marvel
Evan Lewis
Bendis catches a lot of shit because he ignores continuity, creates minority characters but doesn't know how top develop them any meaningful way, tries to synergize with the MCU (which goes back to the continuity issue), a good chunk of his characters sound the same, and his stories are terribly executed when they have a good premise.
Luke Reyes
I would say about 2003-ish or so is when he stopped being good, 52 and Daredevil being the exceptions
Dylan Cook
James Robinson
Julian Flores
He also has a really bad habit of breaking other peoples toys and then leaving them for someone else to fucking fix.
Luis Brown
his daredevil was unreadable after the early arcs
Daniel Carter
Definitely avoid Bendis. Never ever read him ever.
Alexander Morgan
all of these creators have done good work not everything they do is good, but all of them have at least one or two stories that were really good most of the people on this site are just too young to remember the good times
Kevin Hall
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Austin Nguyen
That's a bait image. Always has been.
Though it's absolutely right about Loeb. Even his most lauded works are bottom tier trash with the only saving grace being Tim Sale's art.
Easton Bell
oh well i'm sorry
Kayden Foster
That image has "bad creators are a diamond dozen in this doggy dog world of ours" and you can't figure out the point of that image
You fucking idiot
Matthew Bennett
memes aside, other than Captain America White, I really liked Loeb's color books
Bentley Edwards
my favorite thing that loeb did was the batman/superman from the late 90's (maybe the early 2000's) i think before supergirl was introduced, when ed was doing the pencils some of those interactions between b&s were the best
Jason Thomas
It's the other way around, Tim Sale fucking sucks
Isaac Clark
Matt Fraction is the ONLY one you need to avoid. Everyone else has at least a single good story
Oliver Jackson
Hawkeye was decent
Jason Sanchez
Ultimate Spider-Man up to and including issue 200 is good, though it definitely has its problems.
Matthew Ross
That probably is the best book he ever did as it was mostly just straightforward superhero fun. Any time he tries to aspire to anything with more substance he bungles it.
Jonathan Reed
I've never met anyone who's ambivalent about Sale. You either love him or you hate him.
Eli Morales
die in fire
it was interesting only cause the artist did panel work. dialog was shit
Gabriel Adams
Unless you're a Hawkeye fan. Bro.
Landon Cruz
i agree he's best doing wacky fun shit, rather than tense melodrama also his writing seemed to change a bit for the worse after his son died, which sucks but is understandable
Blake Edwards
This is a bait list right? Punisher, Preacher, and Fury are probably among Ennis' best works.
Landon Murphy
Hi Sup Forums! Enjoying your summer shitposting and baiting here again?
Matthew Watson
see
Jordan Taylor
It started out great but turned into a meandering mess as time went on. The early issues are still worth reading though.
Nathaniel Cook
How is it that you can spot those errors, and ONLY those errors, and none of the other errors?
Lucas Martin
Hitman is better than all of those except Fury:My War Gone By
Blake Torres
His Iron Fist was good though.
Joseph Cooper
Why do you need help reading books? Choose your own damn books and form a opinion for yourself.
I sick of these people judging other people taste.
Luis Davis
The quality noticeably dropped when Brubaker left.
Fraction needs a collaborator or a strong editor to keep him on target.
Funny thing is that Brubaker's exactly the same.
Ryan Wood
Can't remember much about the dialogue. I really liked the art tho. I read the first 10 or so issues and I thought it was pretty comfy. I thought the dog issue was a great idea done well
Not really familiar with Clint. Must be why I liked Fraction's run then
Kevin Butler
Same with Abnett and Lanning, but I'm not going to make the assertion that they don't have good stories because their good work was done with collaborators.
Oliver Barnes
He was asking for recommendations, you dumbass. Quit acting like you're special for not asking for advice.
Parker Parker
Honestly? I think Abnett does better work overall without Lanning.
Oliver Miller
There's a difference between "bait" and sarcasm.
Cameron Perry
>which sucks but is understandable My writing would change if anyone close to me died or had trama or something. It's the same as artists getting over their trama. I don't hold it against Trent Reznor or Tori Amos that their music doesn't hold the punch it once did. They are just much more OK with their life now, living in constant pain and stress is what leads to early deaths. I don't wish that on them, even if I don't care for the music they do now.
Grayson Anderson
Exactly, Brubaker actually plotted the book out. Fraction was the dialog...which was rather shitty IMO. The plot and art saved that book.
Fraction is one of the most aweful comic book writers I have ever read. He doesn't care about continuity, his dialog is worse than Bendis cause of how fake it is, and he can't plot out a story. How he got a job in the first place eludes me
Henry Taylor
stay away from anything Geoff Johns has done there isn't a bigger hack in comics
Aiden Gomez
But Sinestro Corps War and JSA were good, user.
Adrian Harris
But user, Sup Forums voted that Geoff Johns' Forever Evil was the Best Graphic Novel of 2013.
Joshua Murphy
Casanova is genuinely great
Nolan Evans
He was so bad I sworn off even his indi books, sorry. I'd rather read another crappy Alex Kot indi book cause at least it's thought about
Isaac Powell
Ales Kot is my stupid writer who thinks he's smart fu entertaining trainwrecks, he might have talent but sure as shit can't tell a good story
Hunter Torres
>He was asking for recommendations
No, he was asking which writers to avoid.
>Quit acting like you're special for not asking for advice.
How am i special? I told him to form his own opinions.
Julian Peterson
johns' early 2000's flash run was awesome i don't even really like the flash but those comics were very good
Nicholas Price
I'm not gonna type out every single bait thing in that image, calm down with your assumptions, you're making an ass out of you and umption.
Jackson Foster
What if it's not bait but actually just a joke that went over your head?
Lincoln Jones
The AoA issues of X-Man are okay
Henry Murphy
20+ issues on a bunch of thugs, bro. Should have been like 5, bro.
John Morgan
I think this picture was made by Bendis himself to make it seem like hating him was irrational.
Or someone who sucks his dick.
Joshua Butler
No, in the Hawkeye thread that was storytimed everyone agrees that he is the worst part of the story. seriously, go look
Levi Barnes
JSA- we don't need villains- we're a danger to ourselves and others the comic.
Kevin Ross
I cannot imagine how you could possibly have gotten that out of JSA.
Thomas Rogers
>Pic related for example seems to cop a lot of flack on this board, but I can't say I know why Have you experimented with fucking reading those threads Have you