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Post by G on May 14, 2010 13:46:07 GMT -5
There really arent a lot of writers I pay attention to these days because I typically don't enjoy them or it takes me a long time to realize they are doing good work and then I start to notice. I've kind of found this to be the case with Ed Brubaker. It seems like I enjoy his work almost every time I read it. He always keeps the stories moving, interesting and with enough side stories to keep things going for long periods of time. I thought he did a great job with Captain America and I enjoyed a couple of Daredevil stories I read from him too. I don't know enough about the man or his history to state things properly about him. All I know is when I read his work, I generally enjoy it.
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Post by bigw1966 on May 15, 2010 8:31:47 GMT -5
Easily one of the best writers out there.
If you liked his runs on Captain America, You will love Daredevil. And Criminal which is on volume 6 now these are great Noir style crime stories and he knocks them out of the park.
He also wrote X-MEN for awhile.
His name on a title to me is usually synonimous with quality.
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Post by cyberstrike on May 15, 2010 13:16:45 GMT -5
I'll look into his runs on Daredevil and Captain America once I get some money, but there is no way I'm buying his run on whatever X-Men he wrote, because the stuff I read about on his X-Men run didn't seem all that great.
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Post by G on May 15, 2010 18:56:27 GMT -5
but there is no way I'm buying his run on whatever X-Men he wrote, because the stuff I read about on his X-Men run didn't seem all that great. Perhaps he is better as a single character writer. I thought his Captain America run that I read was excellent. In fact, it was so well done after the death of Steve Rogers, that I was pissed they brought him back. Most death comics have no afterthought of what to do with a character after they kill him off. This one was tying up nicely and could have continued on without Steve Rogers. He did a good job sewing up the loose strings. Unfortunately, being I don't have many new comics, I haven't sampled much else that he has done. Like I said, I read a couple of his Daredevils and they were also way above average when I read them. As far as the X-Men go, I mean Christ, it's hard enough making a decent X-Men run now. The last thing I seen that was decent at least for me (and yes, there is a LOT I have NOT read...by choice) was the beginning of Astonishing X-Men. The problem I have with the X-Men is it has been tinkered so much and went off into so many directions so many times that it is really hard to even want to care about the X-Men. In fact, when I see the X-Men most times I just want to puke. So if he didn't do a bang up job on the X-Men, it doesn't bother me. Because I don't even want to pick up an X-Men 99 times out of 100. So if he just did so-so, that probably means it wasn't half bad. I am curious of what else he has done and what he is likely to do in the future. I have gotten to the point where I would be apt to buy something if he did it. And being I'm someone who doesn't take note of many writers by choice. I think the fact I notice and have appreciated things with his name on it has gotten me to the point to see what else this man can do. |
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Post by cyberstrike on May 15, 2010 19:18:55 GMT -5
but there is no way I'm buying his run on whatever X-Men he wrote, because the stuff I read about on his X-Men run didn't seem all that great. Perhaps he is better as a single character writer. I thought his Captain America run that I read was excellent. In fact, it was so well done after the death of Steve Rogers, that I was pissed they brought him back. Most death comics have no afterthought of what to do with a character after they kill him off. This one was tying up nicely and could have continued on without Steve Rogers. He did a good job sewing up the loose strings. Unfortunately, being I don't have many new comics, I haven't sampled much else that he has done. Like I said, I read a couple of his Daredevils and they were also way above average when I read them. As far as the X-Men go, I mean Christ, it's hard enough making a decent X-Men run now. The last thing I seen that was decent at least for me (and yes, there is a LOT I have NOT read...by choice) was the beginning of Astonishing X-Men. The problem I have with the X-Men is it has been tinkered so much and went off into so many directions so many times that it is really hard to even want to care about the X-Men. In fact, when I see the X-Men most times I just want to puke. So if he didn't do a bang up job on the X-Men, it doesn't bother me. Because I don't even want to pick up an X-Men 99 times out of 100. So if he just did so-so, that probably means it wasn't half bad. I am curious of what else he has done and what he is likely to do in the future. I have gotten to the point where I would be apt to buy something if he did it. And being I'm someone who doesn't take note of many writers by choice. I think the fact I notice and have appreciated things with his name on it has gotten me to the point to see what else this man can do. Not every writer can handle a team book and some writers can't handle a solo book, and even great writers and artist still produce bad stuff every now and then, at least he tried and he did gave the MU the first way half way decent new villain in over decade he just comes with a stupid codename...Vulcan. The stuff I read from about his X-Men was basically back ground info in The Road to War of Kings TPB and War of Kings HC and while I admit that that I generally liked them, the idea of Vulcan being the third Summers brother (and bringing Bucky Barns back from the dead) was IMHO Marvel and Brubaker really pushing their luck. If DnA hadn't done such a good job with making Vulcan a real first rate no-good son of a bitch and making Havoc out to kill his own brother (something that I have a hard time seeing Cyclops ever saying or much less doing that) with a lot political intrigue and very flawed heroes making some very tough decisions, War of Kings and it's prequel would have royally sucked. Outside of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's run 25 issue run on The Astonishing X-Men and Peter David's brilliant work on the current X-Factor series are the only TWO X-Books that were and currently are worth my money. I have yet to read a real bad review of his Captain America other than the traditional bitching about "killing off" Steve Rogers and bringing back Bucky from the dead, which goes with the job. The same with Daredevil run as well. Hopefully his run on the upcoming The Secret Avengers series will show that he can really do a great team book. |
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Post by bigw1966 on May 16, 2010 7:09:32 GMT -5
I remember how so many people were bitching when he made Bucky into Cap and he had a gun, people were just spewing hate at him. I liked the Idea right from the start, because I always hated that Cap was made so goody goody that he wasn't even a soldier anymore.
Now people didn't want Steve brought back because they like Bucky so much.
Brubaker also did a little film that is on youtube called Angel of Death which he wrote and direscted. Its really good.
GW you should look up the trades for his series CRIMINAL. These are top notch noir influenced crime books with plenty of bad men and even badder women.
Try the volume titled LAWLESS. The art is not the slick kind you get in Superhero comics, but once you start reading , you couldn't see any other artist doing the books.
Bendis also did a great run on Daredevil. In fact it is probably the best project he has done to date for Marvel. Thats saying something also.
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