The only reason I'm still buying any non-Vertigo DCU books

[yendi]

Dwayne McDuffie is to the JLA what Mark Waid was to Flash during his first run.

(Of course, McDuffie is also currently doing a damned fine job -- in spite of the Hell that is the current Marvel Universe -- of writing Fantastic Four, whose only other solid regular writer since Walt Simonson's run was by none other than Waid. But his writing on JLA -- as well as the work he did on the animated series -- is superlative.)

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[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, these days Mark Millar is writing FF, not Dwayne....

[yendi]

Ah, fuck. I'd fallen behind on my reading pile. I'd thought that McDuffie was still on board.

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

He stopped before moving over to DC to do JLA. And his JLA book is good. When its not stuck with Ed Benes as artist. Or he has to try and work in tie-ins for various DC events and cross-overs. Which I think has been all of two issues during his run so far. A pity. Still, DESPITE that, he's probably tied with Giffen as my favorite JLA writer, with both just a hair behind Morrison...

[phantom_wolfboy]

Dwayne McDuffie is to the JLA what Mark Waid was to Flash during his first run.

A talentless hack who completely undid all the good work done by William Messner-Loebs during his much-superior run?

I didn't even know Messner-Loebs had done JLA.