-=> Quoting David Harding to Tamara Hodge <=-
 TH> And Lobdell is always being cited as a "hot, fan fave...."
 DH> Interestingly enough... I can't recall hearing one person on this
 DH> conference say how glad they were that Scott Lobdell was writing the
 DH> "Fantastic Four".  The most positive it got seemed to get was, "Well,
 DH> I guess I'll give it a chance".  My point is that just because he
Yeah, Lobdell as creator on a title does not make me stand up and take 
notice. Alan Davis on FF did make me notice but then I found out he was only 
going to be on for the first three issues. Pffffttt. Why bother?
 DH> wrote an X-book or 2 doesn't necessarily cut him any slack with the
 DH> fans of the other (non-X) books.  Chris Claremont at least, gets some
 DH> respect a lot of readers remember his time as writer of Uncanny X-
 DH> Men...  and many (even non-X-fans) consider his glory days on the
 DH> series as a classic period in that book's history (even though I,
 DH> personally, think he burned out on it long before he left).  But like
 DH> Bob Harras... who the heck is Scott Lobdell?
Oh definitely, Claremont needed to leave Uncanny long before he did. I 
remember reading the comic and getting disgusted. I just didn't care where it 
was going. At the time I was living in NYC and working for a magazine which 
employed Bob Harras' sister (still does) and she knew I read Uncanny so she 
asked me what I thought could be done to improve it. I told her it was time 
for Claremont to go. Maybe his return to X-land is being looked upon 
favorably these days but I could care less.
 
 DH> Rob Liefeld's artwork has never been a particular favorite of
 DH> mine either (except for the "Hawk & Dove" 5-issue mini-series he did
 DH> for DC)... but if the crappy artwork that eventually became the norm
 DH> in "the New Mutants" was going to ever drive me away... it would have
 DH> been the Brett Blevins' issues.  His style has never appealed to me...
 DH> and yet, I persevered through it... only to drop the title a couple of
 DH> issues later anyhow...
Oh, please don't mention the Bret Blevins run on NM. That was awful. I like 
his work in general though. But those issues were bad and where I gave up on 
the series.  
 
TJH
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