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Post by chaykinstevens on Sept 26, 2022 16:01:37 GMT -5
William Messner-Loebs would write for DC for several years, including a long run on The Flash and a stint on Aquaman, as well as two Epicurus The Sage graphic novels, with Sam Kieth and a further collaboration with Keith, writing his series, The Maxx. I don't think Messner-Loebs wrote much Aquaman apart from a back-up story in Aquaman Annual #3. He had stints on Wonder Woman and Hawkman.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 26, 2022 17:00:41 GMT -5
William Messner-Loebs would write for DC for several years, including a long run on The Flash and a stint on Aquaman, as well as two Epicurus The Sage graphic novels, with Sam Kieth and a further collaboration with Keith, writing his series, The Maxx. I don't think Messner-Loebs wrote much Aquaman apart from a back-up story in Aquaman Annual #3. He had stints on Wonder Woman and Hawkman. Yeah that was a mix up of memory. I meant Wonder Woman, but had an incident from a GenCon, in the early 90s, in my head. Loebs was one of the comic book guests at the con (it was put on by TSR Games, primarily as a gaming convention, with a sci-fi oriented day and a comic-oriented day, plus dealers of related merchandise). There was a comic panel that included Peter David and Loebs and David was talking about revamp cliches, some of which Loebs had employed in Wonder Woman. I thought it was the pot calling the kettle black, since David just published an Aquaman story where his hand was bitten off by piranha and was replaced with the head of a harpoon. David was the one doing Aquaman, but I had noticed Loebs' reaction to the cracks that David made and had that image of Loebs' expression mixed in with the memory of Aquaman and the harpoon hand. Loebs was writing the grittier Artemis as Wonder Woman, while Peter David had written the relaunched Aquaman, with a darker tone, but took pot shots about gritty revamps. I generally enjoyed David's writing and his CBG column, But I Digress; but, he was living in a glass house, on that subject and Loebs was doing better work, in my opinion, yet David got the attention. Loebs also didn't speak up for himself, which I thought was a shame; but, I didn't call David out on it, either (though I was hung over, in my defense, after a night of beer and pizza and Shadowrun, in our hotel rooms). I got a rather mixed impression of David from that con, but also chalked it up to the environment (he was a featured guest for the comic day and dealt with a lot of fans) and my hangover. Later statements by him kind of reinforced that impression, though; sometimes he seems like a nice, thoughtful and funny guys and others he seems like a smart aleck who should think first and respond later. Then again, I have my own moments of that; so, I try to let it go. Plus, I wouldn't wish a stroke on anyone.
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