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Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips. Pat Barker and Kevin o'Neill. Alan Moore and Tribly Rothshank III Promethea guy. Are there any others? Actually thinking about it, Alan Moore seems to be a pretty amazing muse. Maybe it's the beard. Also Neil Gaiman. osietra fucked around with this message at Feb 18, 2013 around 23:25 |
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Not one that instantly jumps to mind, but Brian Bendis and Mark Bagley. Bendis and Maleev too. Pairs that turned out years and years of some of the best comics of the last decade or more, possibly even some of the best comics full stop. Oh, and the name you're thinking of is JH Williams III. Not really that hard to recall. His first name is Jim, for goodness' sake.
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Remender/Opena - Through Fear Agent and X-Force, I feel like Opena has a solid handle on the crazy poo poo Remender loves to write (also Opena/White best buds). Moench/Sienkiewicz - The original and formative run of Moon Knight, Moench scripts tight and mature stories, Sienkiewicz (a newcomer) gives them an edge. Also remarkable is the evolution of Siens art. Fraction/Aja - Duh.
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Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch Bryan Hitch's work with Ellis started in Stormwatch and moved onto The Authority. They may not have been a team for long but holy poo poo was it a team. Hitch's art on Authority is just unbelievably great despite critics of the work. Garth Ennis and Steven Dillon Hellblazer, Preacher, Numerous others. I mean Ennis and Dillon defined Vertigo for a while with Preacher, which again despite the critics was still a great book. Oh and the Obligatory Stan Lee and Jack Kirby My favorite team right now though is Fraction and Aja Hollis fucked around with this message at Feb 19, 2013 around 03:50 |
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Hollis posted:Oh and the Obligatory Stan Lee and Jack Kirby Stan Lee and Steve Ditko turned out some decent books too. (Not just Spider-man, the early Doctor Strange stuff is amazing as well) Matt Fraction and the brothers Moon on Casanova are drat good. Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie seem to impress me everytime they're together. Phonogram was a great little indie book with art and writing that fit together so well. Warren Ellis can be really good at writing for artists. Fell and Next Wave are both very Ellis books, but Fell drawn by Immonen and Next Wave drawn by Templesmith wouldn't be as good (or would just be completely different books). Actually, Ellis and Immonen are really great consistently. Aside from Hickman's run, Ellis and Immonen on Ultimate Fantastic Four is probably my favorite modern FF book.
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Bendis and Oeming is pretty great. Powers is so great due to both of them. Also Mignola and any of the artist he has worked with.
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bobkatt013 posted:Bendis and Oeming is pretty great. Powers is so great due to both of them. Also Mignola and any of the artist he has worked with. If you're talking about Hellboy, it started with Mignola doing art and having established writers help him with the writing. Then he wrote and drew it all, and slowly he's been incorporating other artists (I'd never speculate that writing or art was harder or more important, but writing is certainly quicker). I haven't caught up completely with Hellboy/BPRD, but last I checked the artists are largely imitating his style. Bendis/Bagley being was mentioned and they are great. But part of what I think helped the book be such a hit was Bagley's work ethic. he was able to draw Ultimate Spidey 18 issues a year. How many artists can even attempt to compete with Bendis' output. I'm halfway convinced the Mighty/New Avengers split happened simply because Bendis wanted to write more Avengers books. Greg Land is the only artist off the top of my head who can compete with Bagley's output, and enough people have already written enough words about Land's problems as an artist.
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osietra posted:Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. This ain't PYF. Why do you think they are awesome pairings?
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Wolfman/Perez and Claremont/Byrne These guys basically defined what a superhero book should look and feel like for just about the whole current generation of writers, for better or worse. Big, sweeping epic stories full of angst and romance combined with well constructed, action packed fight scenes. They made comics that everyone wanted, everyone NEEDED, to buy every month.
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Skwirl posted:If you're talking about Hellboy, it started with Mignola doing art and having established writers help him with the writing. Then he wrote and drew it all, and slowly he's been incorporating other artists (I'd never speculate that writing or art was harder or more important, but writing is certainly quicker). I haven't caught up completely with Hellboy/BPRD, but last I checked the artists are largely imitating his style. The only time that he had someone write with his was Seed of Destruction. After that he started doing both art and writing and Hellboy became a lot better. Also while they do ape his style they bring their own style to it. Also on BPRD, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, and Guy Davis are amazing together. He brings a clean style, but whne it wants to be can have some amazing horror. He also is able to do emotional scenes really well.
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Waterhaul posted:This ain't PYF. Why do you think they are awesome pairings? Alan Moore seems to seriously help artists up their game in a serious manner, Top Ten Gene Ha guy, and then his work on the prequel, it had fighter jets, but the name escapes me. The leap in his skill manner was noticeable. Gibbons did Give Me Liberty, which actually had a pretty great protagonist, but he shoehorned in space lesbian nazis. Neil Gaiman used to be awesome. Kev O'Neill and Pat Mills stuff, but their standout was Marshall Law. It'd make an amazing HBO series. Martin Emond was a seriously talented artist, his work on Accident Man was exceptional, and if he'd found his Moore, he'd have been seriously rich by now. Rather than dead.
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Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely.
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Mr Wind Up Bird posted:Claremont/Byrne I know Claremont gets a lot of poo poo, but he forged some really good partnerships with artists. When you look at the stuff he did with Bill Sienkiewicz on New Mutants, or Barry Smith on X-Men, the stories were really tailored for the artist in question. When I was first reading New Mutants back 5 or 10 years ago, getting to the Sienkiewicz issues seemed like a huge drastic change, but the stories (Demon Bear, Warlock, Legion) just completely fit the art like a glove.
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Peter Milligan x Duncan Fegredo All of Milligan's best comics are the result of great collaborations so it's only fitting that his best comic (Enigma) is the result of his greatest collaboration. Caring about what he's doing beyond a paycheck and a visually interesting artist to bounce off of always brings out the best in him. With Enigma - I have no idea if it was intentional but I love the way Fegredo's line starts off very scratchy and uncertain and, over the course of the series, becomes bolder and more solid. It mirrors the structure of the comic to a tee. Girl is their second best thing together and I love that as well. Even their minor Marvel team-ups like the last ish of X-Force and that Rhino story in Tangled Web are great. They also did a Vertigo one-shot called Face that I haven't read but should probably track down because it probably owns. e: other noteworthy Milligan collabs: Mike Allred on X-Force/X-Statix Jamie Hewlett on Hewligan's Haircut Ted McKeever on The Extremists Brendan McCarthy on Rogan Gosh Chris Bachalo on Shade (dear dc: collect this, tia) Adam Strange fucked around with this message at Feb 20, 2013 around 03:18 |
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Rick Remender with Jerome Opena and Tony Moore. I've only read a bit of their indie series Fear Agent, but he brought both artists with him to Marvel and their work together there has been stellar. Moore's great at lanky tough guys and big gooey monsters, and was perfectly cast on Frankencastle and Venom; Opena's work on Uncanny X-Force was creepy, vibrant, and visceral and I think a big reason why the book was such a hit right off the bat. Mike Mingola (and later John Arcudi) and Guy Davis have done terrific work together on BPRD - Davis' style is much more raw and kinetic than Mingola's, but they do a great job of reorienting the horror aspects of the book to play to Davis' strengths, and the Hellboy characters still look great in Davis' style. Mingola and Richard Corben also vibe really well on the Hellboy stories they've done together. Moz and Quitely are sublime together, of course, but Morrison's also done some great work with Cameron Stewart (Invisibles, Seaguy, Batman & Robin in London).
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