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May 25, 2007 at 6:17 pm #52634
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ParticipantAnd worse news: A rumor's going 'round that Mark Millar may replace him. đź
Hopefully, that will NOT be the case. Hopefully, Millar will be hit by a cement truck or something.
May 25, 2007 at 6:34 pm #52635
AlexGKeymasterThere been three or four threads this month discussing Dan Slott the leaving the title over on the She-Hulk forum.
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âI like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.â
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)May 25, 2007 at 8:03 pm #52636David
ParticipantYou have no idea how full of joy I was when they finally announced that Dan Slott was leaving the book. He had taken a strong powerful female character and turned her into a neurotic mess. At the start of the book she was nothing more than a towering green Paris Hilton, jumping from bed to bar. Granted he wasn't all bad, some of the lawyering bits were good and I still love her uber-powering with Pelletier's fantastic art.
May 26, 2007 at 12:56 am #52637Chuck
ParticipantOkay.
Let's get one thing out on the table right now: if Mark "I can't write a good character driven story to save my life" Millar gets to write She-Hulk, I think I will officially lose all hope for Marvel Comics and drop She-Hulk once and for all… until Dan Slott finishes writing Amazing Spider-Man and goes back to Shulkie.
If you're wondering why I think he'll tackle Spidey next… come on. What other light-hearted hero would he try to tackle, especially when Spidey will need a quirky rebound after all the horror and angst that's been going through his life lately?
That's my two cents. Just don't let Millar on that book PLEASE!
May 26, 2007 at 1:11 am #52638ParticipantOkay, let's stop and start our OWN rumor mill!
Who would you like to see write She-Hulk when Slott leaves it?
For my money, even though I have no clue how many books they're producing right now, my picks are:
Kurt Busiek
Fabian Niecza (Spelling?)
Ty Templeton
Fred Van Lente
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Um…Down here are the highly improbable but nevertheless amusing ideas for She-Hulk's next writer:
Garth Ennis
Grant Morrison
Brian K. Vaughn
Joss Whedon(For those who don't know, Ty Templeton was Slott's partner in crime for his Batman Adventures comic run, and Fred Van Lente is the highly amusing writer of Action-Philosophers and a few of the Marvel Adventures titles for younger audiences as well as darker titles like Watchdogs. Hmm… when you put it that way, maybe it might be Van Lente, who has done a decent job at juggling humor and dark elements just like Slott.)
May 26, 2007 at 1:17 am #52639Grandmaster
ParticipantI'd like Marvel to try out a woman writer for a change. She doesn't have to be known as a comic book writer, but she must at least like the character. Preferably be North American. Is there any such person?
May 26, 2007 at 2:30 am #52640ParticipantOkay, let's stop and start our OWN rumor mill!
Who would you like to see write She-Hulk when Slott leaves it?
For my money, even though I have no clue how many books they're producing right now, my picks are:
Kurt Busiek
Fabian Niecza (Spelling?)
Ty Templeton
Fred Van LenteI think Fabian would be a good choice, considering he and Slott are collaborating on the Deadpool/GLI crossover special.
May 26, 2007 at 5:45 am #52641ParticipantI enjoyed Mark Millar's run on The Authority and I liked Civil War until the end. He's written some of the most popular and acclaimed books of the last few years. How else can you explain the rabid fan lust for issue 13 of Ultimates2?
May 26, 2007 at 7:21 am #52642ParticipantWell, when you tease people with the last issue of a series for a good four or five months, of course they'll be left wanting the climax.
May 26, 2007 at 8:51 am #52643ParticipantFor that matter, Millar is at his best when he is given a book with which he can let his didactic tendencies run wild. Books like Wanted are where his skills are best put to use. Otherwise, his characters tend to dissolve into mouthpieces for whatever idea he wants to voice to the audience.
More than once in Civil War I was under the impression that She-Hulk's every appearance and speech was executed literally by Millar shoving his hand up She-Hulk's butt and making her talk out of turn. I felt like that more than once for a lot of characters in the main Civil War book.
Authority was the same way; I think the characters lost something when Millar took over after Ellis, although at the same time the Authority itself as a concept lends itself to didactism and is okay.
Mainstream superhero comics should not dissolve into a mess where the characters are played out of character in order to make way for a didactic point. And while I have to admit that when Millar makes a good joke or an action scene, he makes it happen in spades–Ultimates proves that time and again–but it's in the nuisanced character work that his stuff can fall flat.
I don't want to see Millar turn She-Hulk into one flat polarized Lawyer book with the occasional snide joke thrown in here and there while Millar debates moral and legal quagmires in this day and age.
Plus…
Let's face it; if Millar was on She-Hulk, we'd be lucky to have more than a handful of issues out by Christmas, if that.
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