I Hate Comics.

[gwenfrankenstien]

So, 2010 Eisner nominations are up.

Best Writer:

* Ed Brubaker, Captain America, Daredevil, Marvels Project
(Marvel) Criminal, Incognito (Marvel Icon)
* Geoff Johns, Adventure Comics, Blackest Night, The Flash: Rebirth,
Superman: Secret Origin (DC)
* James Robinson, Justice League: Cry for Justice (DC)
* Mark Waid, Irredeemable, The Incredibles (BOOM!)
* Bill Willingham, Fables (Vertigo/DC)


Girls Gone Geek has a wonderful post on what isn't there. But I want to talk about what is there!

JAMES ROBINSON, JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE.

The comic that started with inappropriate jokes about Hal Jordan's sex life, continued on through watching our "heroes" torturing suspects, and ended with a grand finale in which an eight-year-old girl was brutally murdered. A fuckton of people died in this miniseries, an overwhelming number of whom were not-straight-white-dude characters.

And for writing this, Robinson gets an Eisner nomination.

This is a world where Secret Six exists and is perfect and twisted and hilarious and amazing and doesn't even get nominated, but Geoff Johns' latest over-hyped bland superhero stories* and James Robinson's fucking stupid attempt at rehashing Justice League Task Force DO.

For best writing.

I fucking hate this industry.

* Half of which I read, so this isn't a knock at Johns. He is very good at what he does! Which is writing over-hyped epic crossovers and the like.

Comments

[feverbeats]

HATE HATE HATE. AND OVERWHELMING HATE FOR GEOFF JOHNS. SORRY GEOFF JOHNS, BUT IHU.

[gwenfrankenstien]

I find his incredibly obvious ridiculous crush on Hal Jordan vaguely endearing? BUT SERIOUSLY NOT EVERY STORY NEEDS A BODY COUNT IN THE HUNDREDS, JOHNS. ALSO, SUPERBOY EXISTED BEFORE YOU WROTE HIM, JOHNS.

[feverbeats]

Yeah, he actually does have some high points! brb, redirecting my rage at Grant Morrison.

[gwenfrankenstien]

Oh god, I am SO PROFOUNDLY SICK of Grant Morrison. He wrote some good comics years ago and stupid ones recently. This should not mean he gets put in charge of EVERYTHING.

I heart opinionation!

[girls-gone-geek.com]

First, thanks for the G3 shout out ;-) And, I agree with you ... emphatically. But you knew that already.

~Vanessa G.

Re: I heart opinionation!

[gwenfrankenstien]

This post would have been longer, but you already said most of what I was thinking. (Just. Cry For Justice? Best writing? Really?)