I don't know what's up with you hating on Babylon 5, subby, and the Eleventh Doctor hater. You two are trying way too hard to get your links greenlit, and its either a supreme case of butthurt or a major trolling hard-on. Either way, it's getting old.

UNC_Samurai: Either way, it's getting old.

Sadly, it also seems to be working. :-(

Honestly, JMS is the ONLY reason I would pick up this book. I loke a good superman story but so few fall in continuity. The best stuff is elseworld.

Personally I loved JMS' treatment of Jeremiah on Showtime until he was screwed out of it.

I think the only recent Superman story in continuity which I enjoyed may have been Geoff Johns's "Brainiac" arc. For non-continuity? Holy shiat people need to pick up Morrison's All-Star Superman

or

JMS created Rising Stars. For that, he will get a permanent pass from me.

Do not taunt the Great Maker.

Even though I dislike JMS' writing, I bet his run on superman will be successful. DC needs to do something with the big guy, he's been boring for years

PizzaJedi81: Keywork99: JMS created Rising Stars, Midnight Nation and Dream Police. For that, he will get a permanent pass from me.

Fixed!

And, yes, I liked the one-shot Dream Police.

I loved his Spiderman run as well. Yes, there were a few really bad things with the Gwen/Norman baby thing (REALLY REALLY BAD) but I am willing to allow that without JQ getting involved JMS could have done things much better. Loved how he treated MJ and Aunt May.

Rising Stars is one of the few comics I was able to really talk my wife into reading and she loved it. We watched the whole B5 series right after she finished.

/Yes, I am a nerd.

I love B5, and most of JMSs other work as well. That said, he does fail in one area fairly consistently, and thats when he tries to apply humor. He very rarely does it well. However, most of his stuff doesnt need to rely on it so its not a big deal. He always has been best at the grand story arcs and slow character development. Humor and witty dialogue, he should leave that to Joss Whedon.

Also I'm not a big B5 guy, but I deeply respect JMS's work because of two series.
1) Silver Surfer: Requiem.
2) And the Thor relaunching post-Civil War.

Both are fantastic.

pinual: PizzaJedi81: Keywork99: JMS created Rising Stars, Midnight Nation and Dream Police. For that, he will get a permanent pass from me.

Fixed!

And, yes, I liked the one-shot Dream Police.

I loved his Spiderman run as well. Yes, there were a few really bad things with the Gwen/Norman baby thing (REALLY REALLY BAD) but I am willing to allow that without JQ getting involved JMS could have done things much better. Loved how he treated MJ and Aunt May.

Rising Stars is one of the few comics I was able to really talk my wife into reading and she loved it. We watched the whole B5 series right after she finished.

/Yes, I am a nerd.

he was great on Supreme Powers - then they crossed over with the ultimates and it went to hell
he was great on Thor but then Thor got dragged into Seige and it went to Matt Fraction (hurray!)

JMS does his best work when he isn't tied tightly into a continuity/committee type situation.

I didn't like his spiderman, the gwen thing - which would have worked better if marvel had let him make peter the father - and the spider totem stuff just seemed wrong to me. (huge fan of the reboot which seems like classic spidey to me)

To make the books I like best from JMS he needs more latitude than a character who is well established or tied into the larger continuity will give him.
Superman is the epitome of both problems, unless they can come up with a Thor style post-ragnarok clean slate with a similar isolation.
(they can't)

PizzaJedi81: Alphax: Do not taunt the Great Maker.

Heh...I actually heard that in Londo's voice. :-)


Meestah Garibaldi.

JMS is AOK

That is some excellent troll-fu.

AnEvilGuest:
I didn't like his spiderman, the gwen thing - which would have worked better if marvel had let him make peter the father - and the spider totem stuff just seemed wrong to me. (huge fan of the reboot which seems like classic spidey to me)

To make the books I like best from JMS he needs more latitude than a character who is well established or tied into the larger continuity will give him.
Superman is the epitome of both problems, unless they can come up with a Thor style post-ragnarok clean slate with a similar isolation.
(they can't)

I quit reading with the reboot. I have been reading Spider-man for 16 years and back cataloged the last 25 give or take an issue here and there. I like the old spidey but I can't seem to get into the new stuff. I think its a combination of how we got there and that I feel that ground has been covered and I wanted a more progressed (just a little bit; not 30something with kids) then he is in the reboot.

Also NO MORE LEX LUTHER, please. Can we have Darkseid instead?

Subby,

I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some trolling comes at too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.

Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Subby?

PizzaJedi81: Keywork99: JMS created Rising Stars, Midnight Nation and Dream Police. For that, he will get a permanent pass from me.

Fixed!

And, yes, I liked the one-shot Dream Police.

IMO substitute B5 in there and Ill agree.

Freschel: Also NO MORE LEX LUTHER, please. Can we have Darkseid instead?

We had Darkseid. Written by Grant frickin' Morrison for God's sake.

Stile4aly: Subby,

I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some trolling comes at too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.

Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Subby?


You're a moon-faced assassin of joy

Subby is on crack, Jeremiah was great, and b5 sucked, but lots of people liked it =p

Freschel: Also NO MORE LEX LUTHER, please. Can we have Darkseid instead?

Doubtful. I suspect we won't see Darkseid or any other New Gods in the mainstream continuity for while given the events in Final Crisis.

UNC_Samurai: I don't know what's up with you hating on Babylon 5, subby, and the Eleventh Doctor hater. You two are trying way too hard to get your links greenlit,

Fark: Slowly turning into a VH1 reality show.
It's not news, it's Hate everything, disbelieve everything, say stupid things and you'll be famous.

How could you "ruin" the Superman franchise? Give it a plot and good writing?

This is what it must be like to be nibbled to death by cats.

Barakku: How could you "ruin" the Superman franchise? Give it a plot and good writing?

Cam in here to say this, but less cleverly.

JMS was a terrible writer on Amazing Spider-Man, even before the One More Day crap.

neongoats: b5 sucked

I swear, the next person who says something like this is going to have to answer to HARLAN ELLISON!

oldebayer: neongoats: b5 sucked

I swear, the next person who says something like this is going to have to answer to HARLAN ELLISON!

No one listens to oldebayer.

Sweet Chin Music: No one listens to oldebayer.

But you WILL listen to Harlan. He has a voice like fingernails on a blackboard.

I really like what JMS did with Spiderman. I debated picking up his run on Superman, but I know I'd just end up really liking it, then somehow Quesada would go do a stint at DC and undo all the cool stuff.

proletarian: Freschel: Also NO MORE LEX LUTHER, please. Can we have Darkseid instead?

Doubtful. I suspect we won't see Darkseid or any other New Gods in the mainstream continuity for while given the events in Final Crisis.

I guess we can await The Fifth World (new window)

JMS gave us the best episodes of The Real Ghostbusters. That's lifetime pass material right there.

pinual: PizzaJedi81: Keywork99: JMS created Rising Stars, Midnight Nation and Dream Police. For that, he will get a permanent pass from me.

Fixed!

And, yes, I liked the one-shot Dream Police.

I loved his Spiderman run as well. Yes, there were a few really bad things with the Gwen/Norman baby thing (REALLY REALLY BAD) but I am willing to allow that without JQ getting involved JMS could have done things much better. Loved how he treated MJ and Aunt May.

Rising Stars is one of the few comics I was able to really talk my wife into reading and she loved it. We watched the whole B5 series right after she finished.

/Yes, I am a nerd.

Rising Stars was so damn good. I still get a bad case of the there's-something-in-my-eye-itis when I read the issue where they snuff Pyre.

oddly, i'm sitting here watching B5 on DVD.

anyone who creates a society where the leader of the WINNING SIDE has to set himself on fire and die in order to win is inherently awesome.

/also, Ninja Assassin should have won 45 Oscars.

Hack headline writer.