Mike Chary has suggested I need to post a topic every now and then to remind everyone that I, too, am a Curmudgeon, and that I, too, howl with the best of them. Ralf Haring has suggested that somebody do a post on comic book heresies. Ever one to kill two birds with one stone, I present (after the jump) a couple of comic book heresies that I believe in:
I think the definitive Spider-Man artist was John Romita, Sr. I do not really care for Steve Ditko's art, although I think it worked pretty well for Dr. Strange. But for Spidey, give me Jazzy John any day of the week.
I think Grant Morrison writes self-indulgent twaddle. His narratives are rambling, and he seems to be more than willing to sacrifice story and characterization in the service of throwing some half-baked idea onto the page -- an idea which, nine times out of ten, he doesn't seem to have any interest in developing.
I'm sure I have more heresies, and I will certainly post them as I think of them, but in the meanwhile, I throw the floor open to the rest of you -- which of your tastes challenge the comic community's orthodoxy? What do you believe about Jack Kirby's oeuvre or Jim Shooter's works or the Silver Age Superman that would make your fellow fans reach for the tar and feathers?
Posted by Jason Fliegel at April 28, 2005 1:07 PM