Bullsear
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Brian Michael Bendis was one of the writers who got me back into comic books. USM was fun to read, he had a neat take on Daredevil, and Powers positively blew me away.
I was reading comics for the first time in the Internet era, so I didn't know how to keep track of which books came out when, but I remember driving the 30 miles to my nearest comic shop every other week, hoping that Bendis' books had come out that week. Weeks there were no Bendis books were weeks my total purchases were around a fourth of normal.
I have defended his creative decisions, his takes on my favorite characters, his storytelling, and even his fast, pithy dialogue on this board and on others, but today is the day I stop.
Today, Bendis' books are flat out boring. Nothing happens, and when something does, it's jammed into either the first or last page. His characters aren't believable. He kills them without fanfare or afterthought. Their dialogue is often not dialogue at all, but extended and juxtaposed monologue.
Worst, he writes with no sense of direction, no purpose.
These principles have become most evident to me in the last 15 issues of USM.
It doesn't seem like it, but that's around a year of uninspired, unentertaining, material, and it's not fun to read.
Bendis has become truly lost.
I was reading comics for the first time in the Internet era, so I didn't know how to keep track of which books came out when, but I remember driving the 30 miles to my nearest comic shop every other week, hoping that Bendis' books had come out that week. Weeks there were no Bendis books were weeks my total purchases were around a fourth of normal.
I have defended his creative decisions, his takes on my favorite characters, his storytelling, and even his fast, pithy dialogue on this board and on others, but today is the day I stop.
Today, Bendis' books are flat out boring. Nothing happens, and when something does, it's jammed into either the first or last page. His characters aren't believable. He kills them without fanfare or afterthought. Their dialogue is often not dialogue at all, but extended and juxtaposed monologue.
Worst, he writes with no sense of direction, no purpose.
These principles have become most evident to me in the last 15 issues of USM.
It doesn't seem like it, but that's around a year of uninspired, unentertaining, material, and it's not fun to read.
Bendis has become truly lost.
