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Originally posted by the G-man:
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Originally posted by Darknight613:
I've noticed that very frequently - Brian Michael Bendis has been doing that on DAREDEVIL, and it's one of many things about his writing that's turned me away. The last DD storyline I liked was "Parts of a whole, and that was years ago.
I was going to mention Bendis work on Daredevil and, in fact, his work on Powers as being examples of dragged out story telling.

Bendis has a tendency to write stories that are about 80% set up, ten percent "filler" and ten percent conflict and resolution.

Case in point: Nearly every "Powers" plot consists of the detectives probing a murder for issue upon issue, gathering random "clues" that never seem to add up to anything and then either (a) having the killer show up and confess; of (b) having the killer be killed himself by some sort of deus ex machina that never makes sense.

He's now working a similar limp mojo in "Daredevil." Case in point would be the recently concluded "Owl" storyline. Most of the story was a set up about how the Owl was taking over the city's drug trade and what Daredevil planned to do about it. In the meantime there were some subplots about DDs latest girlfriend and his "outing" as a superhero. Finally, the Owl was defeated and captured by....the F.B.I.

One or two Bendis stories would make nice "change of pace" arcs, but all his stories are pretty much the same.
And yet this guy, even though his writing is piss-poor, is constantly being praised to the skies as one of the best writers in the field. Would someone please tell me what's wrong with this picture? Why is this guy getting so much hype when there's writers out there who could write rings around him without breaking a sweat?