I really put an emphasis on making a distinction between favorite and best. I leaned towards writers who I intentionally explored their oeuvres when I first discovered them because I liked their work so much and whom I continued to find things that became favorites when I did. Then it was a matter of boiling down what about their work appealed to me.

Moore is one who would absolutely make my list if we were doing a list of Best writers not favorites, and there are a handful of his works that are among my favorites. I used to check out a lot of stuff he had written on name alone, but I found a lot of it just didn't appeal to me despite being well-written, and there were others that just didn't appeal to me enough to try even with Moore on board as writer, so he didn't make the cut in my list despite producing runs like Swamp Thing that I adore. There were others who used to be among my favorites, but who have fallen in my estimation over the years as I continued to discover new comics I hadn't read before and new creators and while I still like those old favorites, they have been surpassed by others I like more now and I no longer have a desire to revisit their body of work as I once did.

Favorites is very subjective. Each person can have a different criteria what makes them a favorite. I tried very hard to focus on the body of work as a whole and what it offered as a whole that made a particular writer a favorite rather than individual storylines by the writer that may have given me "the feels" and became a favorite, but the rest of the writer's stuff didn't rise to that level. We've had events that focus on favorite stories or favorite books, this one was about writers so I focused on that totality of output and what traits in the writing appealed to me, not the narratives themselves. But others made their choices based on their own criteria and that is the beauty of this event.

-M