The state of DC Writers???

[gambit2051]

Outside of Snyder, Morrison's Lantern run, are there any other writers worth reading at the moment?

Snyder's Batman/Superman series is fun and feels high stakes while being pretty self contained, and his Justice League run has been Epic.

All of Bendis' stuff has fallen flat, as those of us familiar with his Marvel work warned you about. We really were happy to see him go. King's Mini-Series are great, but his series have been terrible, today's Batman release...i won't say anything except thank goodness it is almost over.

I have heard good things about DeConnicks Aquaman run, but most of the focus of the next big things and all that have been centered on Bendis crap, which makes me fear for any non-established writer's work being messed with by his desired changes.

Just curious about others thoughts on this.

[Vampire Savior]

The best writers DC has going for it right now are maybe Christopher Priest and Grant Morrison. Scott Snyder, Brian Michael Bendis, and Geoff Johns are probably on the downward slope of their careers as comics writers. Their work just isn't enthusing people as it did in the past. Then, DC is filled to the brim with a bunch of average to poor writers, like James Tynion, Robert Venditti, Steve Orlando, Scott Lobdell and so on, and then some writers from Marvel that I'm not sure Marvel fans even wanted, like G. Willow Wilson. The DC audience doesn't seem particularly enthused with them, either.

I think the comics industry is in an interesting phase for a number of reasons. One is that there are basically no superstars anymore...or hardly any. I guess people talk about Hickman and that guy doing Carnage or Venom (I don't really know, I don't follow Marvel very closely). In the 90s, it was artists like McFarlane and Lee. Then, in the 00s, writers started to gain prominence like Millar, Bendis, and Johns. Now...there are still some big name writers around, I guess, but not like there used to be, and it seems like there isn't a lot of really big name talent like there used to be--talent that will move lots of units on name alone--and you're definitely not seeing it at DC. The best DC's got is Bendis, Tom King, and Scott Snyder and...that's really not good considering some of the work they've been putting out and how fans have been reacting to it.

[failo.legendkiller]

Scott Snyder?!?!
it's a matter of opinion. I'm skipping everything related to his work, his damned Dark Multiverse, BWL etc... and I'm also tired of him and his always new mega super fantastic next big event.

Priest, Lemire, Johns (if he want to still be a writer) are the ones I'd like could have more room.

King and Bendis are disappointing me lately, and Morrison... is Morrison with his pros and cons.
I can't bear Tomasi on batman titles, instead I love him when writing Supes.
Jurgens is wasted on that Ric thing.

Anyway I think the real issue is in editorial.

[Noodle]

I often get the vibe that DC has two main writers forming the direction of the company (Snyder, Bendis) and everyone else writes their stories to fit into it. It's far from the first time the major companies have done this, but it feels like it often kills the individuality of some books.

Snyder's Batman/Superman series is fun and feels high stakes while being pretty self contained, and his Justice League run has been Epic.

Snyder isn't doing Batman/Superman. That's Joshua Williamson.

and then some writers from Marvel that I'm not sure Marvel fans even wanted, like G. Willow Wilson.

Considering how loved the character is and how well it does outside of the direct market, Marvel would take back Wilson on Ms. Marvel in a heartbeat.

[Ilan Preskovsky]

Haven't had any interest in anything from Snyder in years, unfortunately. I'm a big fan of DC's two most controversial writers, Bendis and King (HiC aside) and have reached a point with Mark Russell that I will check out just about anything he does. Sam Humphries is killing it over on Dial H, as is Rucka on Lois Lane and Fraction of Jimmy Olsen. I'm as big a fan as ever of Morrison but I do need to reread his GL run, it lost me in the past couple of issues. Geoff Johns has seldom written less but Doomsday Clock has been excellent and I've heard great things about Shazam. I've heard great things about Tom Taylor but I've never actually read anything of his as of yet. Finally, I've really been digging what Si Spurrier has been doing on the Dreaming too.

[phonogram12]

Admittedly, I'm really loving a lot of the books that spun out of Bendis' projects when he came to DC. I haven't enjoyed books by Greg Rucka (Lois Lane) or Matt Fraction (Jimmy Olsen) this much in years.