VOTE JOSS WHEDON AS BEST COMIC BOOK WRITER
POSTED BY: TheWanderingBard
UPDATED: Saturday, September 24, 2005 21:32
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I was looking around at www.ign.com today and found this fun little contest.
http://comics.ign.com/articles/646/646667p1.html
Pretty much standard 64 man bracket for who the Best Comic Book Writer, and lo and behold Joss is in it. He is in the Word Smith's Bracket and doing well, but as the contest caries on he will need some Browncoat action. Figure we could get some free viral marketing off this one. Here's a schedule of when the rounds start.
First Round - Friday, 9/2
Second Round - Friday, 9/9
Swank Sixteen - Friday, 9/16
Excelsior Eight - Friday, 9/23
Phenom Four - Monday, 9/26
Championship - Friday, 9/30
Champion Revealed - Monday, 10/3
Keep them votes pouring in.
KAYLEE: So how come you don't care where you're going?
BOOK: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
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Hold on...You're telling me that eventually, Joss is going up against Alan Moore? Ummm...Good luck to him, is all I have to say...I'll vote Whedon, because I find his stuff more entertaining than Moore's, but Moore is a powerhouse that commands respect in the comic field that I fear the Joss just doesn't have...
Still votin' for Joss though...The Danger storyline in Astonishing is...well...Astonishing!
Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."
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Great! I cast my vote and currently Joss is in the lead with more than 80 percent (I would say 88 but I'm not too sure now)
In other rounds I also voted for Mark Millar of The Ultimates, one of my favourite comics at the minute; J Michael Straczinski (sp?) again Spiderman being one of my faves (plus I'm really liking his F4 run); and Brian Michael Bendis who seems to be running every other Marvel comic at the minute
Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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I agree with all of your picks!!!
Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."
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thank you I, uh, picked them myself
I wanst actually much of a comic reader until Joss started writing X Men - since then I've been picking comics up all the while. The only time I really read them were the occasional Buffy and X Files ones, but only because they were part of the magazines at one point. I used to read Spiderman and XMen when I was younger but it's only this year that I've read them religiously
Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny
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Ok I voted.
"Oh I'm going to the special hell."-Mal
Edit: I just thought I'd add that Joss is currently winning with 87% of the votes. So that's shiny...even if it is the first round. 
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I voted for Joss this round, but it's going to be hard to do so up against Alan Moore. With Watchmen and V for Vendetta on the drama side and Top 10 on the comic side, Moore is an amazing writer.
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Joss all the way baby..
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Whedon's solid, but I think he's outclassed as a comic writer when it pits him up against the likes of Brian K. Vaughn, Warren Ellis...
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BUMP
Round 2 starts today, Keep voting.
KAYLEE: So how come you don't care where you're going?
BOOK: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
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