Creator Bout 4: Battle of the Brits part 2 Ennis vs Millar

Mark Millar

I like his style more and he's written a lot of great books IMO.

 

Yeah, I've got to go with Millar too. Tough choice it was.

 

I go with Millar.

I love his Ultimates, and his run on Ultimate X-men is possibly still the best.

 

Ennis, just for preacher alone.

 

Exactly.

Preacher was arguably the BEST comic series of the 90's, so he gets my vote for that and that alone.

 

Ennis for Preacher and because I've never read anything from him that just plain sucked... can't say the same for Millar.

 

Gotta go with Ennis. While Ennis can be a bit redundant, treading the same themes over and over in most of his works (Preacher, Just a Pilgrim, Ghost Rider) he at least puts enough of a spin on the themes that they seem fresh and interesting each time, and he hasn't written as much stuff that just outright blows as Millar has. The Ultimates and the earlier Authority stuff (which are also very similar, so Millar's got a bit of the one-trick pony in him, too) aside, Millar's got a pretty dodgy record for me. I'm consistently entertained by about 95% of Ennis' stuff, whereas I'm probably down to about 20% with Millar now.

 

that's probably the 20%

 

Ennis, although I'm dangerously poor at reading Preacher (only ever read the first trade and keep on puting it off) I find already better than a lot of Millars work. With Millar I enjoyed Red Son, but really don't like his work on Ultimates. And I havn't actually read either of their Authority work.

So even though I'm very poorly accustomed to these people, I have to give it to Ennis for the little I've read.

 

Ennis. He wrote Preacher, he's Irish (and a good drinkin' Irish at that), and while Millar likes to put a lot of pop-culture referances in his work Ennis struck me more as the kinda writer who actually just went on a bunch of roadtrips and really understands (in the sense that a writer does) the cultures that inhabit his stories.

Though Millar does have The Authority to his name and that counts for a lot, his other work just doesn't jive with me.

 

Definatly.

 

I like them; I like hearing peoples opinions on different creators and sometimes I forget who has written what - so this reminds me

 

Maybe you should have put him up against Ellis. That would have quickly balanced out Preacher.

 

Yeah, they're cool.
It's like a new take on versus threads. Only these don't suck.

 

I'd have taken Ennis anyway. Ellis and Millar are about even for me, although Planetary puts Ellis ahead of Millar.

 

I don't think it should be taken off the table. I think each author should have all their titles, both good and bad, on display, so to speak.

Still, wouldn't matter to me much anyway since I voted for Millar.

 

Ennis still wins because he'll never have MK Spider-Man on his resumé.

 

sorry to just jump in but millar's MKspiderman was good,nor great but good.