Oh wait, there was that too, wasn't there? Yeah, it's kind of amazing how quickly he fell from grace and revealed himself to be something of a fucktard, isn't it?
But what gets me is that before that, I truly considered him to be one of the all-time great comic writers. Not that he was brilliant, but he was usually solid. In an industry where crap reigns supreme, a solidly dependable writer like PAD was a wonderful thing. Like, his runs on HULK, YOUNG JUSTICE, SUPERGIRL, and AQUAMAN? All great! Not to mention X-FACTOR, particularly the Maddrox mini-series... excellent stuff! Plus, he teamed up with Kyle Baker to do a simply wonderful CYRANO comic for CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. Things like that!
And they're still great, even now he's shown himself to be... well, shall we say, less than John Ostrander's caliber. I'm never going to not like those stories, no matter what he does or how he is in his personal life, disappointing and infuriating as it is.
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Date: 2009-07-31 09:09 pm (UTC)But what gets me is that before that, I truly considered him to be one of the all-time great comic writers. Not that he was brilliant, but he was usually solid. In an industry where crap reigns supreme, a solidly dependable writer like PAD was a wonderful thing. Like, his runs on HULK, YOUNG JUSTICE, SUPERGIRL, and AQUAMAN? All great! Not to mention X-FACTOR, particularly the Maddrox mini-series... excellent stuff! Plus, he teamed up with Kyle Baker to do a simply wonderful CYRANO comic for CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. Things like that!
And they're still great, even now he's shown himself to be... well, shall we say, less than John Ostrander's caliber. I'm never going to not like those stories, no matter what he does or how he is in his personal life, disappointing and infuriating as it is.