Writing a comic and writing and directing a movie are TWO TOTALLY different mediums and venues. This is like saying that a good video game writer who writes the script/concept of a video game would make a good movie if his games are good. It just doesn't translate. It's a false analogy, and not even because one is a comic book writer in this case and the other a movie director.
No one's ignoring Smith's work. Everyone's placing Smith's comic work where it belongs -- in the comic books. It has no bearing on his film capabilities. Crafting characters on the page and sustaining interests in them for a ten minute comic book read is a totally different creature than a movie which has 2-hours to isninuate an entire history while sustaining an mass audience (comics only have to cater to a particular demographic) and maintain interest all the way through. So can you tell me where exactly Smith's comic book "depth" has any relation to Singer's film "depth?"
What we can judge is Smith's history on movies that he's been rejected or fired from. He gets bitter. He gets petty. He disowns what's bad about what he did and throws it to others while leaving himself blamless. If you are a writer and you put your name on the by-line of a script or what not, you OWN IT. Regardless. At any moment, he could've left that project and not written ****...he went along against his insticts apparently, against what he knew the fans wanted...this would make him a sell out, at the very least. Most accurately, he's a coward for not owning up to what he wrote and put his name to. He scapegoats. I have no respect for this man.
We've seen of his movie skills, they've been sub-par and simply mediocre. I mean, are we really coming down to comparing Bryan Singer to Kevin Smith? Most of Hollywood's most respected would be laughing at us right now if they saw it.
It's definitely a head scratcher.
