In a message dated 5/1/08 6:52:42 AM,
ssshapir@yahoo.com writes:
> What would you say are the best hardboiled comic
book writers of the
> moment?
>
Brian Azzerello, David Lapham, Brian Bendis and Greg Rucka
can clearly work in whatever medium they choose. and they all
have a criminal bent
Peter Milligan's HUMAN TARGET was a great crime series with
deep characterizations
Garth Ennis is entertaining and dark, if over-the-top
Andrew Vachss' short stories translate very well into the
form, and I don't care for him as a novelist much
Frank Miller showed his writing chops with works like GIVE ME
LIBERTY as well as in DAREDEVIL, FALL FROM GRACE and BATMAN,
YEAR ONE
Alan Moore is a terrific, visionary storyteller whose work
sometimes incorporates hardboiled elements. the character of
Rorshach in WATCHMEN is a good example. that work is notable
for how it actually begins gritty, dark and melancholy; and
then becomes epic and in fact cosmic
John Lau
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