Quote Originally Posted by Tuck View Post
Slott's better. It's not even close.

I think a lot of people started reading Spider-Man during Michelinie's run, so it's inflated in their assessment.
Dude...Slott barely qualifies as a writer period.

He systemically writes everyone OOC to fit around whatever plot he has going.

Michelinie rarely if ever did that which alone should make him egregiously superior.

I think a lot of people don't realize how Slott is mostly sizzle with very little steak but get taken in with the flashiness of his ideas in spite of their pay off rarely if ever being anything beyond shallow and superficial.

Michelnie also wrote Peter as the sum of his experinces whereas Slott's Peter is in his own words mentally 15 years old.

Michelinie also rarely took Spidey outside of the types of stories his character is supposed to be about. Pseudo science which is an expansion upon grounded real world science is well within Spidey's wheelhouse. Slott though? Time travel, pan dimensional wars with totem vampires, routine global threats, mind swaps and stuff in outer space.

Michelinie did that stuff too but far, far, far, far less often. Even Venom and Carnage's alien status was more incidental to their characters than anything. They functioned as glorified power suits for the all too realistic and human Eddie Brock and Cletus Kasady.

This isn't even getting into how Michelinie created grossly more successful spin off characters. Venom and Carnage alone are infinitely more popular than any of Slott's spin off characters...and Michelinie at least was the guy to MAKE them popular whereas the spin off Slott has generated were made good by OTHER people.

Silk under Slott is laughable and rapey. Robbie Thompson is who made her worth anything.

Why is it not even close again?