Thread 149166754

Your thoughts on Ed Brubaker's comics?

Unremarkable.

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His crime comics are great. I think people overrate some of his superhero work though

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He looks like a hybrid of Stefan Molyneux and Brad Jones.

>>149166754 (OP)
The Cinema Snob makes comics?

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Point Blank, Sleeper and Criminal are amazing.

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I really like his Cap and his and Rucka's Gotham Central, and maybe I'll get a lot of hate for it, but his Cap run is more iconic than Gruenwald's. Criminal is good, although I haven't read the Image volumes yet. Daredevil and Catwoman are OK. Haven't read anything else from him, planning to read Fatale in the future.

>>149166754 (OP)
the best crime comics in the business, some good ass superhero comics but i read capes way less so i haven't seen all his output, the daredevil stuff was real good tho for example.

i love that he hasn't slowed down with criminal coming out as a tv series, like all them hardcovers from that reckless shit were da bomb.

I don't like his work but I suspect the reasons that I don't like them probably aren't his fault.

>>149166754 (OP)
Criminal, Reckless, Fatale, Friday etc. are some of the best comics I've read in the last 10 years

Last of the Innocents in particular plays with the medium and your knowledge of it so well I can't think of how they're possibly going to adapt it in live action when the time comes

>>149166754 (OP)
Not to my taste

>>149166754 (OP)
Did two massively damaging retcons on both Captain America and X-Men. Easily ranks among the all time worst X-Men writers.

>>149166754 (OP)
I don't remember what I've read by him. Didn't have much impact.

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He's mediocre and boring.

Him, Rucka, and Azzarello are hard to tell apart.

>>149169918
Physically? Yeah save for Azz's beard

Writing they're basically the beginning middle and end of a scale, Rucka is very dry and nearly documentarian and his main focus is almost universally women combating the patriarchy

Azzarello is overly reliant on puns and turns of phrases and his main focus is on the violence and sex and the lurid side of pulp fiction

Brubaker is right in the middle writing crime fiction where his main focus is the situation and the characters doing the narration and action are secondary and thus he can lean in either direction as the story sees fit

>>149168191
$1.00 ?

>>149166754 (OP)
Cinema Snob?

>>149166754 (OP)
As others have said his crime comics are great. That and spy stuff is what he's best at. Also read Sleeper.

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>>149170319
We're all such old fucks.

>>149166754 (OP)
Stinks.

>>149166754 (OP)
He's a no-talent hack, but unlike 99% of current writers, he seems to want to actually be a comics writer (as opposed to just using comics as a backdoor into hollywood).

>>149167971
His crime comics are his worst. I hate how he's the only person people associate with the genre anymore. He basically (though probably unintentionally) killed off traditional crime comics.

Random factoid: Brubaker has been in comics for around 4 DECADES. He might have taken longer to make a name for himself that any other "big name" comics pro in history.

>>149166754 (OP)
He does good thrillers, but its kinda like Junji Ito and his horror anthologies, where buying the books they all kinda seem the same on cover alone I never know which I should bother with over others.

>>149166754 (OP)
I prefer the work of Ed Buckbreaker