I enjoyed some of Millar's stuff, others I didn't. I really enjoyed his Ultimates 1 and 2. Jeph Loeb's Ultimates 3 was so bad I dropped it after 1 issue.

I enjoyed some of his creator owned stuff. The first Kick-Ass was pretty good, but I stopped enjoying it after. It was just torture porn, shitting all over the main character. I couldn't enjoy just seeing this kid ground into paste figuratively and physically all the time. His Wolverine was okay.

I mostly liked his "cinematic" approach which was novel at at the time.

Ennis can be great. I don't like when he goes too cartoony or preachy, but Preacher had some poignant moments. Punisher MAX was fantastic. The Boys was like using a sledgehammer to knock in a slightly loose pushpin.

Morrison was very hit or miss, and he couldn't stick landings for me. I loved his New X-MEN run. It was the most refreshing thing that had happened to the X-books in years, but you could tell when he was done, he just tossed it together and walked.

Recency bias is the opposite of what we're talking about. Recency bias favours the new. Aren't we talking about favouring "our era" over all else?

I feel like I'm in a weird place because when it comes to Marvel in particular, I think the comics they produced before I was born are much better than the stuff they've published during my lifetime, with some exceptions like Ultimate Spider-Man and Alias. X-Men, Spider-Man, Avengers, I'd much rather read the stuff from the 70s and 80s than most of the stuff from the 21st century or even the 90s. With DC at least I still think their peak was when I was a very little kid and not well before I existed.

Looks good, aside from the copy and pasting going on, which is a personal bug bear.

Don't mistake me. I think he can definitely be an edgelord, too, but I agree that it's not all he can do. He can be quite good when he wants to be.

😧 My jaw just hit the floor.

Let me rephrase.

His Wolverine was okaaaay. I didn't like the Hand resurrection thing, and I thought it was too long and a throwaway, but I didn't hate it completely the first time through. I don't ever want to read it again, though.


Sounds like that was the editor's fault- changing his stories until he felt he had to leave. I'd be fascinated to hear how Quesada fit into the equation- the stories creators tell usually suggest that disagreements with editors resulted in him coming down on the creators like a ton of bricks, trying to beat them in line.[/quote]
People are quick to blame editorial whenever something falls short of the bar in comics. Granted, it seems to be correct a good bit of the time.

It's been a long time since I've read up on it, so take this with a pinch of salt. My understanding is Morrison was pretty much brought in as a superstar Name Brand creator to revitalize a floundering Marvel and was given basically free range to do what he wanted. I think he was interested in staying on longer, but he was being pressured to undo some changes perhaps, and said screw you guys, I'm goin' home. So, while I don't think what we got was necessarily fiddled with by editorial, I think they had disagreements on what was going on next.

Based on the speed that Quesada swept everything but the surface-level topical changes right back under the rug, this seems plausible to me. It's a shame, too, because the status quo change Morrison built for them was the first new and interesting idea the X-Books had seen in year.

Oh, well.

Unless you just don't like when 2 panels use the same angle I don't really see what the problem is.  Of course backgrounds aren't going to change in a split second when the action is entirely in the foreground.

There's something jarring about seeing the same thing twice or more on the same page, and I dislike how it's common now because it's so easy to copy and paste. Move the view point around, change the distance, draw something new...

Like I said, a personal bug bear, that can wreck *any* page for me.

And yes, I know tracing used to occur in the past, but the uncanny valley effect was avoided unless a photostat was cut and paste right on to a page. That happened, but much less commonly. It was usually used to save drawing a building multiple times, for example, typically cut from a past issue. One use I quite liked was when they'd photostat or trace a face, and gradually zoom closer and closer in to the eyes or mouth. Much more artistic.