What about Bendis? His old work is amazing like Alias but his newer stuff is not that good like GOTG.
What about Bendis? His old work is amazing like Alias but his newer stuff is not that good like GOTG.
I think his superhero team books are about as good or bad as they were when he first got Avengers.
Bendis kinda disappeared from my radar at some point. Is he still doing anything that's not "big superhero teams that trapped in a cycle of events" and if yes, is it any good?
I never cared much for Bendis on "straight" superheroes. I much prefer him on stuff like AKA Goldfish, Torso, Fortune & Glory, Powers, Alias, etc... His superhero stuff is okay; but, it just feels like a rehash of old material, with his version of "snappy" dialogue. I didn't think he added anything I didn't see 20 years ago, in one form or another.
Miller is one that lost me before people started putting the "insane" label on him. I'm not a fan of Sin City. The art is too derivative of Jose Munoz (Alack Sinner), as is the plot, and the rest is a Mickey Spillane pastiche. Of his post Dark Knight stuff, I prefer the stuff done in collaboration with others, like Give Me Liberty, Big Guy and Rusty (more than Hard Boiled), or Elektra Assassin, rather than his solo work. As it is, I think he owed a heck of a lot of credit to Joe Rubinstein and Klaus Janson for the praise his artwork got and I found his work with David Mazzuchelli on Daredevil: Born Again and Batman: Year One to be superior to both his own Daredevil and Dark Knight. I just think he is someone who needs a filter.
Stan Lee's best comparison would be a producer rather than director, like Jerry Bruckheimer: he was able to put great talent to together for the books and did some editing of the stories, along with adding some dialog and shaped them.
Kirby I would say Orson Welles. His influence on comics is undeniable, much as Welles' influence on film.
I think Lee's contributon is more significant than that of a producer. Keep in mind that in film a director takes a lot of credit for the contributions of actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, etc.
Welles is an interesting fit for Kirby, given the multiple hats they wore. The film version of Kirby has to be an actor and director. The biggest difference is that Kirby had a greater output.
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Thomas Mets
Yeah, I guess I can see the comparison of Lee taking a lot of credit for the entire production, so maybe a director does fit him..and no, not a compliment. He was fortunate to have true visionaries like Kirby and Ditko to breathe life into the work.
Welles and Kirby were both extremely influential, and future creators/filmmakers followed the trails they blazed. They both changed their respective mediums.
Garth Ennis, to name one example, has said he won't do an outright biography of a famous military figure because he doesn't want to disgrace them or their relations by 'putting opinions in their mouth that they may have never actually had or spoke.' But that even so, thorough knowledge/research is inescapably crucial if the time & experiences of the subject(s) is going to be captured with any seriousness whatsoever. Really, the characters of something like War Stories/Battlefields,' their status as 'fictitious' is really just a empty technicality.
The inherent 'way out' of fiction isn't some magic license for laziness and ignorance.
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