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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 2045877" data-attributes="member: 13637">Oh geez. This is another one of those subjects where you can just wind me up and watch me spin on and on like a top. At one point in my life I was a complete art junkie. If it was drawn by George Perez, John Byrne, John Romita Jr. or a few others, I was all over it.  Then, in the mid 90s I really got into a writer kick, realizing that the name of the author on a cover was a much more reliable gauge of whether it was going to be a good book or not. Good writers put out good books, even with terrible artists. A great artist with no story has nothing to illustrate worth looking at, or so I thought.Now, I'm somewhere in the middle. Kurt Busiek told absolutely brilliant stories in Kingdom Come and Marvels, but without the amazing paintings of Alex Ross, it wouldn't have been the same story. And Brian Michael Bendis tells an awesome story in Powers, a superhero crime noir book, but without the dark, brooding artwork of Michael Oeming, it just wouldn't be the same.I guess what I'm saying is that my very favorite comic books stories couldn't have been told either by just the artist or just the writer. I mean, the one that touched me the absolute most in my life was a relatively short story written by Kurt Busiek and drawn by Brent Anderson in his Astro City universe. In the story: A man has been having dreams about a woman he loves, even though they have never met and she doesn't exist. The supernatural "hero" the Hanged Man reveals to the man that what has happend was that during a giant cosmic event, reality was realigned and the woman he knew and loved in that old reality never existed here. The man is given a choice, he can either keep his memories or give them up and be fully brought back "reality." He elects to keep those memories and the Hanged Man reveals that this has happened to many people and none of them ever want to give up those precious memories. There is no fight, no battle, except for one splash page in flashback showing the cosmic battle which happened off screen. And I am not doing it justice, but it was a truly moving story. Unbelievably powerful, really. But there is no way to tell that story without the artist and writer working together.</blockquote>

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