Who wrote the best Spider-man, and why was it Straczynski?
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Who wrote the best Spider-man, and why was it Straczynski?
Who wrote the best Spider-man, and why was it Straczynski?
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Straczynski is a good writer because he cares about the things he does.
for me it's Roger Stern, but I still want Spider-Man married even though he wasn't in this run
He might've written the best Peter and MJ, and for sure the best Aunt May, but his Spider-man bits were mostly pretty lame.
>Straczynski was the last good Spider-Man writer
>Morrison was the last good Batman author
>It's been 10+ years since both
/co/micsisters, I don't feel so good
>Batman
Peter Tomasi
>Spider-Man
Hickman and Weisman will save us
Are you listing their worst respective writers?
i always felt he wrote the characters well, their dialogue and charactersation etc but i disliked the villians of his run. morlun, gwen's kids, radioactive mafia monster?
If you stop his run after Ezekiel yes. But after that is all bad.
At least his civil war tie-in was better than entire event (and all the other tie-ins). Back in Black was sick as well. So no, you skip Sins Past and OMD, everything else is must-read
>At least his Civil War tie-in was better than entire event (and all the other tie-ins)
Finally, a good joke on Cinemaphile.
It's Stern.
It's obviously JMD. Stern or DeFalco are also good answers
Old coloring and panels are so fricking good. I dont know when they started flooding each page with tons of dialogue in just one static panel.
The worst part is that issues always feel so fricking short now. Old comics could have insane pacing but it always felt like you were getting a full story even if it was just a chapter in something larger. I got the first issue of Image's new Dracula comic last month and the art was gorgeous but I was done reading it in maybe two to three minutes. Five dollars for three minutes of entertainment and a month long wait for more. Decompressed storytelling works great for a full length graphic novel, and often gives the art more room to show off, but it's a terrible fit for the monthly format.
Is it full color? they do that because a more detailed painting comic is expensive to print
Well yeah, the problem is that the way the story itself is written is a poor fit for the release format. Each issue is 32 pages long but a large amount of that is spent on large, sprawling panels and lavish splash pages. Very little story actually happens. It's a gorgeous book and I can understand why it would be pricier than most, but it sucks to read monthly. It would have been better suited to a one-shot or trade release.
For an exmple just look at Miles Morales' origin story in Ultimate Spider-Man compared to pretty much any origin story from the 70's and 80's. It takes six issues just for him to get the costume (despite being on the cover from issue one).
weird way to write roger stern.
I really loved his character work and some of the weirder concepts, but yeah it always felt like he tended to fumble the bag with the big events. Though there's only so much you can do with a manchild like Quesada in charge, making moronic demands.
Straczynski? You mean J. Michael "Proud Member of the Seedless Grapes Club" Straczynski?
Care to elaborate?
literally ruined the title
He was the last writer to write Peter as an adult and not a late-teens at best man child.
Eh hard disagree. Basically fricked the character beyond repair and his character voice is really the only good part of his stuff. Trash villains, bad art, and all the totem shit is irredeemably bad. It's probably top 10 most overrated cape runs of all time.
All these anti-totem gays say the same shit. Yeah it's not science, it's a spiritual layer added onto a character that typically doesn't gel well with it. But might I add that it adds more variety and is kind of inevitable in marvel u since there's already so much magic. Yet, I don't want peter's rogues gallery to become all magic or get inundated with it. Then he loses unqiueness or the appeal he has already. I think JMS struck the balance well by having Ezekiel say nobody knows whether totems or not were part of the cause of the spider bite not killing Peter. He just adds to the theme of Peter not truly knowing everything and that he is fallible. I think it adds more relatability and feeds into Peter being human and subject to stuff beyond his control. It's similar to the green door in Immortal Hulk and I don't see nearly as much anons b***hing about that. I think why so many anons are more concerned has to do with Peter being more relatable and Ditko himself not liking stuff like aliens being included in Spider-Man stories. But Spider-Man has the flexibility to extend into gritty crime stories as well as stories like Secret Wars. So I like totems because of themes of destiny and the variety it adds.
Naw it's trite and at best should've been a single issue concept. Doesn't really add much to Peter, if anything, and actually detracts from the world building. It's fine you like it, but I think it's lame. Just not the type of story I want from Spider-Man
If you don't count the editorially mandated shit, none of the bad parts of JMS's run were bad enough that you couldn't just ignore them. It's not JMS's fault that later writers took the totem shit and made it even worse.
It is kind of fricked up that the run is held in such high esteem just for being competently written and not constantly rage-inducing.
That just tells you how good the writing for the characters actually was.
Again disagree. The bad parts aren't easy to ignore and I shouldn't have to if this run is supposedly so great. Don't know dick about the totem stuff after his run because I don't read modern Spider-Man. The totem concept is bad no matter the writer. I'll say I enjoy the issue where aunt May discovers Peter's Spider-Man and they talk about it to prove I'm not just blindly hating this entire run just to hate on it.
DeMatteis is the best but JMS is an extremely close second
Ditko Spidey is the only real Spidey.
Because JMS was a TV writer before he became a comic book writer. He wasn't a comics fanboy either and shitty books happen due to the writers being fans.