Quote: First Amongst Daves said: I will say though that comics seems to have a disproportionately high number of bad ones, though.
No. Look at all the shit being put on TV and in movie theaters. Let's not forget to mention books and music. Like all professions, there are comic writers who are hacks, others who are decent, a few who are above average, and the rare lot who are outstanding.
Books have an enormous screening process. Most books are of decent quality because of the effort it takes to publish them.
TV is just slightly less competitive, and worse for a writer, use focus groups to cull out the crap.
Doug Moensch once said that Time Warner regarded DC as the creative slums of the group, and I understand why. How can you disagree when one of the biggest selling comics in the last 12 months was Avengers: Disassembled? no real craftsmanship went into that, and it had multiple reprints.
