Comics Favorite moments of writers you don't normally like

[JJJ's Ulcer]

After seeing too many negative JMS threads, I want to put up a positive one, so I decided on a "favorite JMS moments" thread. Then I decided to make it even broader and just put it up for all writers who have bad raps.

I am personally mixed on JMS. I think he's a good writer, but doesn't have much respect for the work of other Spider-Man writers. I think he's also prone to too many events, but I have liked alot of his stuff.

The next two writers I put here... well, the less said the better! But they also have produced some entertaining yarns.

And then I included a couple more for the hell of it.

Favorite JMS moment/story: Peter's live speech in the news-room at the end of ASM#536 when he turns against the registration act. His speech is not only one of the best Spider-Man speeches ever, but great political commentary about the parallels to our own eroding freedoms. It gave me goosebumps. The coup-de-grace is when Iron-Man coldly says in the last splash "You heard the man. Bring him in."

Favorite Mackie story: TIE between Peter and Ben taking on the Sentinels during Onslaught... PETER: "Up for one last fight?" BEN: "Maybe moreso... now that you're with me." Great bonding and badass teamwork.

Even though Ben should have gone out in a more respectable fashion, Night of the Goblin is a really suspenseful and climatic conclusion to the clone-saga. Yes it brought back Norman and has its flaws, but that fight between Peter and Norman and the tragedy of Ben is epic.

Favorite Kavanaugh story: The compelling and unsolved FACADE mystery perplexes fanboys to this day. Besides "what happened to Baby May and Kaine?" I can't think of a single loose-thread or question in the Spidey mythos that's asked as much as "Who the hell was Facade?!"

Plus, he fried Lance Bannon so he automatically gets props for that.

Favorite Byrne story: ............. *cricket chirps*...... um... moving on... (I TRIED! I REALLY TRIED!)

Favorite Micheliene (or however you spell it) story: I LIKED him. But he seems to get a bad rap from alot of people so I thought I'd include him anyway. My favorite story of his is a tie between Spidey and Venom on the deserted Island and the first three-part Carnage arc (aka the only good Carnage story, besides *MAYBE* 'Web of Carnage' when Reilly got the symbiote).

Now what stories from your lest-favorite writers do you like?

 

[Doc_OCK_4MUGEN]

Uh Fave JMS moment... when he got Pete and MJ back together at the airport... including the Doc Doom mess... Loved t... and some Peter Ezekiel moments... so I guess that moments is the right choice of words...

 

[roni14]

'Sins past'.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

'Freefall" from Spider-Man #95 by Howard Mackie...

That's the one where Nitro is sent to assassinate Jameson at the Daily Bugle, and explodes in the hallway...Peter shoves Betty Brant into the elevator with Norman Osborn and his grandson, and a abunch of debris falls on them...Osborn then begans taunting Peter, telling him the security cameras may still be on, and his identity will be shot if he uses his super strength to save them (Betty is unconcious)....Osborn also begins to remind Peter about all the people he's failed in the past....


I thought this was the best story up to that point that Norman was used in since his return...more concerned with screwing with Peter's mind than saving his own grandson...

I wasnt crazy about Mackie, but this was one of his better stories...

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

'Freefall" from Spider-Man #95 by Howard Mackie...

That's the one where Nitro is sent to assassinate Jameson at the Daily Bugle, and explodes in the hallway...Peter shoves Betty Brant into the elevator with Norman Osborn and his grandson, and a abunch of debris falls on them...Osborn then begans taunting Peter, telling him the security cameras may still be on, and his identity will be shot if he uses his super strength to save them (Betty is unconcious)....Osborn also begins to remind Peter about all the people he's failed in the past....


I thought this was the best story up to that point that Norman was used in since his return...more concerned with screwing with Peter's mind than saving his own grandson...

I wasnt crazy about Mackie, but this was one of his better stories...

I remember that. It was pretty good. Actually Norman (Not Jameson) was the target. Kingpin had sent Nitro to kill him. After all of Norman's taunts and BS, Peter still saves him and pulls the debris off of him.

I also like the beginning where a condescending Norman offers Peter a hundred bucks for a cab and MJ icily says she'd rather walk. I wonder if she ever found out about Norman's hand in baby May's death/abduction.

 

[DACrowe]

Favorite JMS moments:

Any comic he wrote with JRjr drawing. Ezekiel, Morlun (when he was cool), Book of Ezekiel, Peter and MJ getting back together at the airport and the dead mobsters storyline where Peter takes money from a real life mobster to use it against him. AND THE 9/11 ISSUE IS A CLASSIC AND VERY MOVING.

Bad: Everything he didn't do with Jrjr.

Howard Mackie: I liked Revelations...I said it! I also liked the story where GG drugged Peter and made him almost go Goblin, but that was more a Jenkins story than a Mackie one. That's it...all the best stories in his reign came from DeMattis on Spectacular or the brief stint of good stories in Unlimited (one of the best Lizard stories and Mysterio stories was hidden in that short run title).

Bryne: Nadda.

Those are the "bad ones," which is ironic when JMS saved the books when he came on in 2001 or 2000 (I forget which) yet they crashed and burned worse than ever after 2004 under him as well.

 

[Sloth7d]

Favorite JMS moment: Spider-man owning the Kingpin. Nuff said.

 

[Gabbra49]

Also my favorite JMS momment. Peter erupts with anger and proceeds to leave kingpin a bloody mess. In the process using the kingpin as a deterrent for the rest of the inmates

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Favorite JMS moments:

Any comic he wrote with JRjr drawing. Ezekiel, Morlun (when he was cool), Book of Ezekiel, Peter and MJ getting back together at the airport and the dead mobsters storyline where Peter takes money from a real life mobster to use it against him. AND THE 9/11 ISSUE IS A CLASSIC AND VERY MOVING.

Bad: Everything he didn't do with Jrjr.

Howard Mackie: I liked Revelations...I said it! I also liked the story where GG drugged Peter and made him almost go Goblin, but that was more a Jenkins story than a Mackie one. That's it...all the best stories in his reign came from DeMattis on Spectacular or the brief stint of good stories in Unlimited (one of the best Lizard stories and Mysterio stories was hidden in that short run title)..

I enjoyed revelations as well.

 

[VICTORVONDOOMX]

Thor 1-3.

 

[Hobgoblin]

I hated Mackie's reboot run, but I loved PP:Spider-Man #75 and thought that ASM vol 2 #27 (the one where Peter talks to a friend of his father's and fights the Squid) was pretty good.

 

[Norman Osborn]

JMS - The entire New Avengers arc
- Silver Surfer Requiem
- Thor thus far
- FF arc that dealt with the Richards losing the kids to child services (sans the Reed created the Universe crap)

 

[freemadison]

Howard Mackie - Revelations and the story with Peter and Ben fighting Sentinels (a line from it is in my sig)

JMS - i like the first half of most of his material just not the second half so much...

Kavanaugh - you know...the whole clone saga thingy...i kinda liked that. i STILL want him to come back and write a mini finally answering the FACADE thing btw.