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yep, i am ashamed to say that it has made me quite angry to see that such a negative and opinionated guy has so many followers.  At least he's only a comics writer and has no influence on the running of the world.  Though plenty like him do.

[comics] John Byrne on Grant Morrison and Alan Moore: 'I get no sense from [Grant] Morrison's work that he has any "love for the genre". I get the same vibe I get from [Alan] Moore — a cold and calculated mixing of ingredients the writer knows the fans like, but to which the writer himself has no eviceral connection. Nostalgia without being nostalgic, as I have dubbed it.'

Haven't trawled through all of this thread yet (entertaining though it is) but the above is taken from another website.  A bitter, bitter man who has long since been left in the dust of both these cold, calculating, superior writers.

JB's approach to the comics market makes me think of a Sid-The-Sexist-style approach to women - 'She went for HIM over ME? She must be a lezza.'

Finally, I am pleased to say that I'd never heard of JB before I saw his name on this message board last year.

That said, how much of this was Ennis and how much was Hogan I can't say without rereading the stories.

More Hogan as far as I remember; I definitely noticed a slight return to the original Gronk personality.  Garth Ennis's Gronk was kick-ass tough guy all the way and it just didn't work for me.

The Life and Death of Johnny Alpha will probably retcon it all anyway (boo! hiss!).

I know; I really hope it doesn't but I'm sure it will.  I loved the idea of Johnny dying a Christlike death to save mutantkind, and going into mutie history as a messianic figure.  I hope it doesn't all get pissed up the wall (ahem, Danny Franks, cough).

As for the Gronk, I just didn't like it, Norn Iron analogies or no.  The Gronk was always there as a sweet, simple foil for the violent and aggressive lives of the SDs.  Garth couldn't seem to get away from the idea that every comic character has to be a violent killer; even Jug McKenzie was murdering bulldozer drivers gleefully and never seemed to get in trouble with the law.

I worked that out near the beginning of the film.  I think when you've been reading sci-fi all your life the plots sometimes melt into one. 
Mind you, I'll never watch that Bruce Willis dead people thing because someone jokingly ruined the ending for me.

Loathed it at the time - hated the art, hated the, as you put it, Norn Iron analogies.

I thought it was ok; much better than the Gronk ones at least.  It was quite a good depiction of a post-Johnny SD world as far as I'm concerned; and I hated Garth Ennis's stuff at the time. 
Nice to see a huge walking cock in the mutie pub as well.

It'd be fair enough if someone who was constantly having story twists spoiled for them because nobody bothered to use tags had a little moan, but when the reverse is true? All you have to do is run a cursor briefly over a little black box. Not too hard, is it?

That's the way I see it too.  It's a much bigger inconvenience to have a story ruined than to be made to move a mouse a millimetre or two.

I learned my lesson by ruining Al Ewing's excellent Dredd story The Americans for somebody on the board, thinking it was safe not to use spoilers a week or so after the story came out.

As a teacher of au-pairs in their early 20s, I empathise with Sting.  Now if only I knew about humping for two days or whatever he does.

Alan Grant himself complained about it in his recent Megazine interview.  He said Millar had spent a week or something in Grant's home, then went on to say that the old hacks of the comics scene needed to step back and let the new writers in.  Something like that, anyway. 

[AM I A HOMO FOR ADDING ITALICS TO THE MIX? IF SO, ANYONE FOR A QUICK BUMMING?]

AM I A HOMO FOR ADDING ITALICS TO THE MIX?  IF SO, ANYONE FOR A QUICK BUMMING?

I do think Millar is a wanker now.

I'm going to retract that. Having seen a few interviews with him, he doesn't actually seem that bad a guy.  Didn't like his lack of respect for Alan Grant or 2000ad in general, but fuck it, there are much worse things in the world than that.

John Byrne, for example.

Nothing wrong with that, is there?  Most natural thing in the world. Eh?

Al is an artist's gift as a writer- had an indecent amount of fun drawing this one...

I'd imagine so.  'So, how was work?'  'Not bad, drew a woman with a big tit for a face, the usual'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1YNEtaHbzA

I've never understood why some men wear taches, WTF is it all about?

And it always ends in tears, doesn't it?  Hitler.  Franco.  Saddam Hussein.  Stalin.  The Chuckle Brothers, for fuxake.  I rest my case.