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jafabian said:
I want to see writers like Grant Morrison, Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek on Superman. Writers who think outside the box and are well established on that level. Loeb's Hulk: Gray issue as well has the Hush arc on Batman were a bit dissapointing to me.



We already saw Waid on Superman (Birthright), and we saw what happened to him. DC treated the book like it was a plague virus and didn't do diddly-squat to promote or support it, we saw the Byrne-Jurgens Sycophants skin Waid alive for doing the EXACT same thing Bryne did in 1986, and we saw the book, which was pretty damned good, belly-flop because of all the above. Waid got shafted big-time, and frankly I don't ever want to see him on Superman ever again. He was punished for doing nothing more than telling the Superman story he wanted to tell, and I don't want to see him kill himself for nothing again. Once was unfair enough to him. Ditto for Matt Wagner, whose fantastic Trinity took the exact same bashing and flaying because it wasn't 100% Pure Byrne-Jurgens Dogma. If the price of writers getting to tell great Superman stories is watching said stories be slaughtered and said authors be crucified and left to be turned into quarter-bin fare, then I'd rather these writers just not bother with Superman. The fans are just too arrogant, too selfish, and too entrenched in the past (1986-1999) to accept anything other than that time period, and no writer worth his salt should ever have to tolerate such an ungrateful, hate-spewing bunch of egomaniacs.

Morrison...his sensibilities are too similar to Waid's, and he'd only end up taking the same level of abuse and hatred for no reason other than his concept of Superman doesn't conform to Byrne-Jurgens. So no, I don't want him working on the character. It's not worth his time to get roasted for having his own take on Superman. Busiek...no dice. His sensibilites are too old-fashioned for Team Ego to ever give him a fair shake. JMS? He's an unabashed fan of the old-school Superman, especially the Alan Moore stories. That alone would get him crucified. No, the only writers the "fans" deserve now are the low-level, assembly line hacks like Austen, the idiots who spew ignorant tripe while writing bland, tepid stagnation that only enforces the status quo. They've proven once and for all that they only care about "CONTINUITY," quality be damned.

And believe me, they can have it.

Last edited by King Krypton; 2004-04-16 1:58 AM.
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