I think he’s a forgettable writer, but a worthy artist with a nice gimmick. The only book of his I ever really liked cover-to-cover was Marvels, and that was largely because of Busiek’s script. Uncle Sam was OK, too.
I think he’s a forgettable writer, but a worthy artist with a nice gimmick. The only book of his I ever really liked cover-to-cover was Marvels, and that was largely because of Busiek’s script. Uncle Sam was OK, too.
Kingdom Come was great, but I think that the story impetus was Ross’ while the scripting was Waid’s. Ross is a great idea guy, but sometimes I think it takes a great writer to flesh out those ideas.
Kingdom Come was great, but I think that the story impetus was Ross’ while the scripting was Waid’s. Ross is a great idea guy, but sometimes I think it takes a great writer to flesh out those ideas.
True, and for that matter Marvels was written by Busiek.
It was OK, but I had a really hard time getting into it. I’m just not as interested in the DC universe as the Marvel one, so much of the story involved characters I never really found all that compelling to begin with. I never liked Captain Marvel, and found it really hard to care that he now a bad guy and was fighting Superman. I did like the basic premise of older superheroes fighting the newer, almost Marvel-style vigilantes, however, with Batman kind of walking the line between the two. Moore did it better in Watchmen, but it wasn’t a bad story or anything.
Anyone read his “Earth X” series and the sequels? Ross scripted (or maybe “outlined” would be a better word) that series and did the character design, but didn’t do the inside art. Although I enjoyed seeing how he reinterpreted the characters, I had the same trouble getting into it. He’s just not much of a storyteller without a good writer to put the pieces together for him.
I saw we move past that. It’s a comic that’s bigger than the medium at this point.
We’re talking about Alex Ross.
I do like his sequel to Kingdom Come he’s doing in JSA.
Yeah, but you know Johns is doing the actual writing.
I like it as well. Some are saying it’s too damn slow, but it’s got more of a slow burn feel to me. I like a nice long setup as long as it’s interesting. It would be nice if they incorporated the Final Crisis story line into it, but Ross isn’t much of a continuity guy.
Re: Johns- see my above post about how Ross’ concepts are good, but he needs a writer to flesh them out and make them work. Johns is arguably the #3 writer in the industry right now (behind Morrisson and Brubaker).
Re: Ross and continuity- Ross is arrogant and seems to think that if it isn’t his idea or something that came about 40 years ago he doesn’t need to pay attention to it.
